Befriending Your Beautiful Monsters: A Guide to Emotional Well-Being
Teacher
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Tsoknyi RinpocheFor over 30 years Tsoknyi Rinpoche has been teaching students worldwide about the innermost nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Born into a family respected for its spiritual attainments, he was identified by the 16th Karmapa while still a small child as the third Tsoknyi Rinpoche. His teachers include some of the most renowned masters of Tibet. 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 for monks and nuns who follow his spiritual direction. His most current humanitarian project is completing a large school for impoverished young girls in Nepal with both Western and traditional buddhist educational curriculums. His personal warmth, humor and compassionate attention greatly enrich and enliven his teaching.
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EVENT DETAILS
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Date & Time
February 7th 10.00-11:30 a.m. ET (Time Converter)
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Format
Online
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Registration
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Requirements
Open to Everyone
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Price
Free
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Organizer
Tergar
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EVENT DESCRIPTION
We all have challenging emotions — fear, anxiety, anger. Our habit is to resist them, feeding a cycle of perpetual struggle. Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaches a radical alternative based on Vajrayana wisdom teachings: making friends with them. By dropping the storyline and meeting these experiences directly in the body with friendliness, we can see them not as unpleasant foes but rather “beautiful monsters,” as Rinpoche calls them — “monsters” because they cause suffering and distort our experience, but “beautiful” because they carry their own inherent beauty, wisdom, and openness. This event is part of Tergar’s Blueprints of Awakening transmission, focused on the core principles of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Recording
A recording of the event will be posted in English only on YouTube. Please note that participants in certain regions may encounter difficulties accessing the content due to restrictions in those regions.
Why should I attend?
This teaching offers a way to end the struggle with challenging emotions. Instead of fighting our difficult emotions, we’ll learn to welcome them with gentle curiosity. Tsoknyi Rinpoche provides practical, body-based methods to release the grip of fear and anger, uncovering the wisdom and energy they contain. This is a chance to find peace not by getting rid of our beautiful monsters, but by finally making friends with them.
EVENT DETAILS
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Date & Time
February 7th 10.00-11:30 a.m. ET (Time Converter)
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Format
Online
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Registration
-
Requirements
Open to Everyone
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Price
Free
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Organizer
Tergar
- Contact
- Back to Events Calendar