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Mingyur Rinpoche • 4 min
Joy of Living is a meditation path designed by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned spiritual teacher, best-selling author, and TED speaker.
Rooted in the ancient Buddhist teachings of Tibet, it’s open to everyone, regardless of cultural or religious background.
Receive access to over 100 video teachings and guided meditations from Mingyur Rinpoche.
Engage with a structured, three-level curriculum covering awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
Benefit from live webinars with experienced meditation instructors and an online community.
Track your progress with our free app, including space for reflections and optional daily reminders.
Mingyur Rinpoche • 8 min
Your subscription includes access to all online courses in the Joy of Living program at joy.tergar.org, including weekly live sessions, webinars, personal interviews with Tergar guides, over a hundred guided meditations, and much more.
We aim to make the Joy of Living program accessible to everyone by providing three different pricing options. Feel free to choose the one that best suits your needs.
Discounted fee available for anyone facing financial constraints or currency discrepancies.
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"If we remember why we meditate and the possibilities that meditation offers us in this life, we will come back to the cushion easily and with enthusiasm. It is up to us to determine our own narrative — one that is alive and true for us." — Tim Olmsted
“Rinpoche has so beautifully given the essence in such a simple and accessible manner that other masters would hesitate to give until the student has spent maybe twenty years with them." - Arun Poudel
"If we remember why we meditate and the possibilities that meditation offers us in this life, we will come back to the cushion easily and with enthusiasm. It is up to us to determine our own narrative — one that is alive and true for us." — Tim Olmsted
“Rinpoche has so beautifully given the essence in such a simple and accessible manner that other masters would hesitate to give until the student has spent maybe twenty years with them." - Arun Poudel
Like the mind, the Earth is imbued with resilience, enabling it to return to harmonious equilibrium if only we allow it enough time undisturbed.
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More than any other single figure, Guru Rinpoche is the source for the entirety of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
What I have learned and what Rinpoche emphasizes is that the quality of experience – up or down – is absolutely irrelevant.
"Trying harder and putting in that extra bit of exertion was so counterproductive!"
He appreciated Rinpoche’s emphasis on applying the teachings anywhere and anytime. “I wanted a spiritual path that would infuse the entirety of my life,” Kell recalled.
Throughout our time together, we slowly learned we were not responsible for each other’s happiness. True happiness can only be found within ourselves.
“Each time I come back to Joy of Living, I get something totally new out of it. I also appreciate it’s a very sequential path as well. Each piece flows into the other very elegantly. It’s a work of art really.”
“Each time I come back to Joy of Living, I get something totally new out of it. I also appreciate it’s a very sequential path as well. Each piece flows into the other very elegantly. It’s a work of art really.”
If we want to release tension or rumination, we emphasize the exhalation and the gap at the end before the inhalation. If we want to energize, we emphasize the inhale, and the place at the top of the inhale.
When we have committed to the path of meditation, we tend to impose this desire for consistency on that, too, so should we experience any sort of dip in our meditation practice, we feel uncomfortable, dissatisfied, insecure — all those bugaboos start vying for our attention.
Join Tergar International and Tergar Institute's collaborative event exploring emotions through abandoning, transforming, and recognizing them. Learn Buddhist techniques for daily life from Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar lamas and guides, as well as through seminars, small groups, and community rituals.
November 14 - November 17, 2025
September 20 - October 18, 2025
October 17 - October 19, 2025
Join Tergar International and Tergar Institute's collaborative event exploring emotions through abandoning, transforming, and recognizing them. Learn Buddhist techniques for daily life from Mingyur Rinpoche and Tergar lamas and guides, as well as through seminars, small groups, and community rituals.
November 14 - November 16, 2025
Meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy. The key to this shift in perspective is awareness. In this 8 week workshop series we will learn to transform our experience by exploring sensations, thoughts, emotions, and even awareness itself as supports for meditation.
August 13 - October 1, 2025
The wisdom that arises through insight meditation allows us to see our own experiences clearly. This leads to a sense of freedom, well-being, and confidence that is rooted in awareness itself, and available to us in each and every moment.
September 3 - October 22, 2025
In this workshop series we will learn how meditating on loving-kindness and compassion can open our hearts to the world around us
September 8 - October 27, 2025
This workshop series is designed to make meditation practice accessible and effective, open to all. Tergar Guide Scott Anderson will guide you step-by-step through the main topics of the program: awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
September 10 - October 8, 2025
Quer seja principiante ou já tenha experimentado a meditação, o AAM oferece uma forma acolhedora e eficaz de começar o seu percurso meditativo ou de se reconectar à essência dos ensinamentos.
September 15 - October 13, 2025
This workshop is the third and final workshop in the Joy of Living meditation program created by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
October 10 - October 12, 2025
Meditation enables us to transform all experiences, even difficult emotions and painful thoughts, into sources of joy.
October 17 - October 19, 2025
Quer seja principiante ou já tenha experimentado a meditação, o AAM oferece uma forma acolhedora e eficaz de começar o seu percurso meditativo ou de se reconectar à essência dos ensinamentos.
October 28 - November 25, 2025
This retreat is an invitation to explore that unshakable part of ourselves, the place untouched by external changes.
November 23 - November 23, 2025
"I personally have felt the benefits of this course to be immense, and these effects have even been noted by close family members. Already, at this early stage, the transformations have brought a freshness, lightness, and lightheartedness to living, even in the midst of much precarity. I very much look forward to continuing the practice through the next levels."
"This course has been immensely helpful to me. I feel that it has been a year of amazing growth and awareness. I’ve meditated for many years, but only in this last year have I been so dedicated to my practice. It has been a lifesaver for me."
"The Joy of Living programme is transformative to bring up my true nature (Love and compassion). I have never seen such a simple yet powerful online teaching. It explains a way of living, one tiny step at a time. All I experience is peace, love and compassion. I thank the entire Tergar team and Mingyur Rinpoche for creating this online programme.
I highly recommend this programme to anyone who wishes to learn meditation and sustain the practice throughout their lifetime."
"Many thanks for this online course, which I really appreciate. I knew the books of Mingyur Rinpoche; however, the course is very rich (videos, exercises, forum, etc.) and I have the impression of having come closer to this Master and his teachings, to be “taken by the hand” to advance.
The course is very clear, very motivating, and really makes me want to invest myself. In a few words, on the videos, Mingyur Rinpoche gives clear, practical, and precise teachings."
"The JOL programs have proven to be rich and deeply transformative. I am anxious to continue to participate in the other offerings available through Tergar. It really is wonderful to be able to access this deep wisdom and to be supported by such compassionate, wise, and caring teachers."
"I want to thank everyone involved in this great course. How blessed we are to get the opportunity to receive teachings from such a wise man and his great team of assistants.
I take a deep bow full of respect and gratitude!"
"There are many offerings for the beginner on how to learn to meditate. The Joy of Living program, developed by Mingyur Rinpoche, offers the best and most comprehensive introduction to meditation that I know of. From the conceptual underpinnings to the varieties of practice that are taught, it has something for everyone. It has my strongest endorsement."
"These days I am very grateful for Tergar and its structured lessons, which give me a framework within which to navigate these strange and interesting times."
"Thank You… this course is beyond words... my most profound thank you at this time, this particularly unique moment of my life… for ALL of YOU…You are contributing all to change my life… and the world around ME…"
"These meditations have been really beneficial in my ability to express love toward others, even if in small ways. And as I’ve opened up more, my ability to be happy for others or grateful for others’ freedom from suffering is slowly shifting my own worldview."
hours of Rinpoche’s life spent in formal meditation
of students and followers around the world
countries with meditation centers
Rinpoche blends ancient Tibetan wisdom with modern scientific research and has worked with famous neuroscientists to examine the effects of meditation on the brain.
He has written several books, including The Joy of Living, which has been translated into over twenty languages. Rinpoche teaches worldwide and founded Tergar International to provide both secular and Buddhist meditation programs. He is also involved in various social engagement projects and is committed to helping people and communities live with boundless awareness, compassion, and wisdom.
