Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Befriending Our "Beautiful Monsters": A Guided Practice to Work with Difficult Emotions
Who else would enjoy this summit?
What You'll Learn
Explore how “being with” difficult emotions with non-judgmental, compassionate, embodied awareness allows them to naturally open and transform, revealing the innate well-being and “essence love” at the core of our beings
Understand how the cognitive mind can keep us trapped in cycles of emotional struggle by trying to fix, change, ignore, or run away from what we are feeling, rather than meeting it with direct kind awareness
Be led in a guided practice to help you work with difficult emotions and connect with your grounded body, open heart, and clear mind
About Tsoknyi Rinpoche
For over 25 years Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide about the innermost nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Widely recognized as an outstanding meditation teacher, he is the author of three books: Open Heart, Open Mind, Carefree Dignity, and Fearless Simplicity. Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaches worldwide at more than 50 retreat centers, and his most current humanitarian project is completing a large school for impoverished young girls in Nepal with both Western and traditional buddhist educational curriculums. Rinpoche has a keen interest in the ongoing dialogue between western research, especially in neuroscience, and Buddhist practitioners and scholars.
You can learn more about his work on his website and the Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation. You can also enroll in his Fully Being online course.
About Daniel Goleman, PhD
Daniel Goleman is an internationally known psychologist and science journalist. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence was a bestseller and has been translated into more than 40 languages. His most recent book, Altered Traits, was co-authored with Richard Davidson and reviews the best meditation research. Dan has also organized a series of intensive conversations between the Dalai Lama and scientists, which resulted in the books Healing Emotions, Destructive Emotions, and Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence. For the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday Dan wrote A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for our World. He is a former board member and a Founding Steward of the Mind & Life Institute.
You can learn more about Dr. Goleman's work on his website.
Brattleboro Vermont
I thought I was in a quandary today about my life and I felt so stuck and unproductive. But now I feel OK as this is exactly where I needed to BE! My meditations take place as I walk and in doing so I felt transformed that it was all OK to just BE in these feelings. My mind and my feelings and body were tossing this fixation about and soon it became less of a burden and more of an acceptance. And now I am understanding it even more. Thank you for the light and I love it’s shining within me.
Hi there,
How can I attend the live Zoom event? I don’t see any place where I can sign up for.
Thanks
Hi Illona – I don’t know whether you get this message:
basically signing up for a zoom event is by now redundant,
but there is nothing you missed out upon because those were merely introductions to the videos which are online here.
Just go to their homepage and watch as many vids as you cana within the next 2 days, before a paywall will be put in front of them.
wonderful advice dear Tsoknyi Rinpoche! thank you for the teaching!
Toni/ Rigdzin
Brilliant. Thank you!
Haha! Organic gluten-free love…
Wonderful explanation of inner beautiful monster aspects. So great that traditions and teachers like Tsoknyi Rinpoche are evolving practice with science. Much appreciation!
I so enjoyed listening to your teachings Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Thank you.
The concept of staying with Beautiful Monster is very novel and New to me. Tradition method I know is to park or ignore the monster and let the clarity emerge with time. If it is possible, I have a request to highlight the experience with some live Example.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche makes it seem so simple. Thank you!!!
Tsoknyi Rinpoche makes it seem so simple, Thank you!
Thank you dear Tsoknyi Rinpoche, such a helpful, joyful teaching….
Thank you Tsoknyi Rinpoche for such wise, compassionate and delightful teachings and thank you Daniel for holding space for such a wonderful interview!
Thank you Renpoche. This was extremely helpful. I was sobbing while holding my focus on my Beautiful Monster.
My Beautiful Monsters thank Tsoknyi Rinpoche and ask me to befriend, accept and love them. I say, “I am afraid” and fear says “Be with me.” I say, “I am afraid of Beautiful Monsters of terror and horror.” Rinpoche says “Open the door and spend a bit of time with them in base camp – you don’t have to climb to the top of the mountain today.” Thank you.
Its really okay
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I feel the light and love throughout the conversation. Thank you again.
How beautiful!
That was very helpful. I love beautiful monsters. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Listening here from, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Eugenia, argentinian living in Germany. Love the “beatiful moster” methaphor. Thank you!
Thank you so so much Rinpochela.
I loved to listen and sharing meditation with RINPOCHE..HE SEEMS AN ANGEL that appeared in my home…
Ok feeling inside. Good information on vipsyana.
A very peaceful meditation, touches me very deep, tears and laughter at the same time . Thank you so much. Mona from Germany
What a phenomenal experience in the guided meditation. I found the distinction between the mind, subtle body and fixation to be very insightful. Thank you for much depth and wisdom. Mala from South Africa
Thank you dear Tsoknyi Rinpoche so,so much.
Maret Rummo from Estonia Tallinn.
Profound teaching🙏🏼 Thank you Tsoknyi Rinpoche🌹
Jenny, Oslo, Norway. Thank you! Interesting distinction/explanation of external and internal love or unconditional love. Wonderful way to describe difficult feelings as beautiful monster. Making them less scary.
Thanks for the insight to understanding that being in the OK is a good place to comprehend the beautiful monster
Than u so much, I love the monster already!! 🌸🤗
beautiful! Would it be possible to get a download version of this guided meditation?
❤️ Beautiful. Desolidify, be with your beautiful monster. Thank you,
Beautiful As It Is! Thank you Rinpochela for such an important teaching. So needed in this “high class” society now. I pray that everyone gets to hear this teaching and meet their beautiful monsters with grace.
Thank u very much
Thank you very much for explanations, the method and for sharing your personal experience, Tsoknyi Rinpoche!
Many thanks also to the host, Daniel Goleman!
I wish you, both, happiness, healthy life and good fortune in Life!
He really speaks to me. I call my beautiful monster my evil twin
Thank you. Before even getting in touch with emotion, the person should be relatively free of feeling emotions…. how to generate enough energy and love to accept emotions…
Is there link that we can join live? I don’s see one but yes able to watch the prerecorded lectures.
Thank you, this really helped me today 🙏
Thank for your joyful and helpful teaching!
Thank you rinpoche it’s was so precious.
❤️💓💕🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🥰
Thank you so much for your beautiful teaching! and for your humour ((-:
Being with the emotion reminds me so much of good teaching I have been through with a spiritual teacher in my home town. I wonder if she and Rinpoche should be spiritual cousins of a kind <3
What revelations to find at my age (68) and in small town, central Georgia, USA. Rinpoche, I embrace you with gratitude, and I’ll take these messages to heart, to my family, and to my community the best ways that I can.
Thank you! Your beautiful smile radiates love all around.
Thank you Rinpoche for learning us in a soft and hounest way to take care of our ‘monsters’ . So helpfull.
A huge eye opener for me. Me whole body and heart understood Tsoknyi Rinpoche his message. Thank you so very much!
As I’ve heard, when you are ready the teacher appears. Such a beautiful and perfect lesson for me today! Thank you from California! You are adorable!
What a profound offering! Thank you, Rinpoche, for your teachings, honesty and humor!
The teaching of suffering with your beautiful monster and holding hands is just so profound and a step that I was missing. Many thanks for the wise words and such beautiful delivery!
I love your teachings! For me it is bot easy. But when I lisent to you it gets easer! Thank you