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This event takes place May 22 - 24 (Asia-Pacific restream May 23-25), 2026. View in your local time.
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This event is open to everyone.
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Live interpretation will be provided during the teachings in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Recordings of these sessions will also be available in these languages.
At a deeper level, the emotional object, the emotion itself, and everything manifests as empty luminosity. An empty house has nothing to lose, and the thief has nothing to gain.
– Mingyur Rinpoche
We live in a time when we have access to an array of meditation techniques and wisdom traditions vast enough to touch every facet of the human experience. Yet as we explore so many techniques, we may begin to subtly turn our practice into an effort to “fix” ourselves, trying to eliminate what feels unwanted or difficult. Paradoxically, the very experiences we try to reject may hold the key to liberation.
In this final retreat of the Blueprints of Awakening transmission, open to both new and experienced meditators, Mingyur Rinpoche will teach the Vajrayana method of self-liberation. Drawing on the Dzogchen tradition, Rinpoche will guide us through the three modes of liberation, showing how destructive emotions and thoughts can liberate themselves when we directly realize their essence. As in the image of a thief entering an empty house, there is nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Each moment can be effortlessly experienced as empty clarity.
Can I get access to a recording of this event?
In response to participant requests, recordings of not only the teachings but also the practice sessions and Q&A sessions will be available within a few hours after the final session each day and will remain accessible for two months. You can view them anytime by logging in to the event page. That said, we still strongly encourage you to attend live whenever possible and to use the recordings primarily to review the teachings.
Please note that participants in some regions may encounter difficulties accessing the recordings due to local restrictions.
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND?
If meditation practice feels heavy with “doing” or like a subtle struggle to improve yourself, this retreat offers a different path: effortlessness.
Mingyur Rinpoche shares essential tools from the Dzogchen tradition that transcend suffering, moving beyond the duality of “problem” and “solution” to an experiential understanding of self-liberation. By learning to recognize the wisdom inherent in thoughts and emotions — even difficult ones like craving or jealousy — you’ll receive a toolkit for everyday life. Join us to deepen the view and discover that we are already complete, exactly as we are.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
In this program, you will:
- understand the three modes of liberation
- have an experiential understanding of self-liberation and pure perception
- gain the tools to transcend negative thoughts and emotions in everyday life
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PROGRAM?
- Live teachings, Q&A, and practice sessions with Mingyur Rinpoche
- Teaching sessions with Khenpo Kunga
- Q&A sessions with Tergar Guides Tim Olmsted and Antonia Sumbundu
- Group meditation
REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:
This retreat is open to all.
Special note for students in Asia-Pacific time zones
For students in the Asia-Pacific time zones, Mingyur Rinpoche’s teachings, the Tergar lama’s teachings, and Q&A session with guides will now be restreamed at convenient morning/afternoon times on May 23–25. Live simultaneous interpretation in Chinese and Japanese is planned for the restream, and other languages may be added closer to the event.
About Blueprints of Awakening:
Effortless Liberation with Mingyur Rinpoche
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About Mingyur Rinpoche
In his approach to teaching meditation, Mingyur Rinpoche integrates traditional Buddhist practice and philosophy with the current scientific understanding of the mind and mental health – making the practice of meditation relevant and accessible to students around the world.
Mingyur Rinpoche is a world-renowned meditation teacher with personal experience of anxiety and panic attacks, which he suffered from throughout his childhood and into his teenage years, when he learned to transform his panic through meditation. Born in Nepal in 1975, Mingyur Rinpoche began to study meditation as a young boy with his father, Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, himself a well-respected Buddhist teacher. As a child he became interested in contemporary science through conversations with scientists who were visiting his father, and as he grew older he began to collaborate with neuroscientists and psychologists, including Richard Davidson and Antoine Lutz at the University of Wisconsin, on research projects that study the effects of meditation on the brain and the mind.
Mingyur Rinpoche’s first book, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over twenty languages. His second book, Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom, explores how difficult emotions and challenging life situations can be used as stepping stones to discover joy and freedom. In his most recent book, In Love with the World, Mingyur Rinpoche shares how his meditation practice sustained him when he left his monastery to wander through India and the powerfully transformative insights he gained from the near-death experience he had at the beginning of his journey. Mingyur Rinpoche recently appeared in the Netflix series The Mind, Explained, in an episode about the benefits of mindfulness.
As the head of the Tergar Meditation Community, Mingyur Rinpoche supports groups of students in more than thirty countries, leading workshops around the world for new and returning students every year.
About Khenpo Kunga
Khenpo Kunga is a Senior Tergar Lama. He became a monk at a young age and began his education at Tergar monastery, where he studied the rituals, prayers, and other traditional practices of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. At fifteen, he entered an extended meditation retreat and spent three years mastering the profound contemplative practices of the Kagyü lineage.
Following this period of intense meditation practice, he entered the renowned Dzongsar monastic college near Dharamsala in Northwest India. After studying there for eleven years and receiving his Khenpo degree (roughly equivalent to a PhD), he taught at Dzongsar college for three additional years. Khenpo Kunga’s primary teacher is Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, though he has studied with many other revered masters as well.
In recent years, Khenpo Kunga has taught in Asia, Europe, and the United States as one of the main teachers for the worldwide network of Tergar monasteries, meditation centers, and meditation groups.
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