What it means to add fuel to the fire varies from person to person. When we step into an unknown country, it will affect us to varying degrees. Affect our development. We each have areas that are difficult to let go of. These may be character traits, attitudes, work, people or things that we feel particularly attached to. These may be emotional states that we do not want to let go of, or that we may be trying to avoid. When we challenge these patterns, we add fuel to the fire. For Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, it was not only his caste identity that was challenged. From a very young boy, he had had anxiety attacks that at times completely paralyzed him. Out there in the darkness, standing at the train station with a jumble of travelers, he discovered how quickly he had to give up any notion of being able to control events, and that giving up the safe and familiar framework was not just small sticks on the fire. These were large logs that crackled, flared up, and at times the fire was almost out of control.<\/p>\n Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche has co-authored the book with Helen Tworkow<\/a>, who is the founder of Tricycle<\/em><\/a>: The Buddhist Review, which is the first and only independent Buddhist magazine in the United States. She has been interested in Buddhism since the 1960s, and she has been a student of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche since 2006. Today she divides her time between the United States and Tibet. From the outside it is difficult to know what it means to Tworkow <\/a>and Mingyur Rinpoche have written the book together. But when you consider Tworkow's excellent editing of Tricycle<\/em>, it is probably important to remember that she has a not inconsiderable share of the credit for how big an impression this book makes on the reader. How it is at once so exciting that the pages almost turn by themselves, and contains so much depth and conveying of essential considerations that for me it functions as a practical text where I have to stop again and again. To look inward. To notice. To reflect.<\/p>\n The book was published by Borgen in 2019. In addition, two books<\/a> by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche in Denmark. \u201dThe Joy of Being\u201d in 2018 also at Borgen and \u201dWisdom with Joy: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom.\u201d in 2016 at Klims Lotusb\u00f8ger.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photographs are reproduced with permission from Tergar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It's a dark night. He's sitting alone in the taxi. He's never experienced this before. He's leaving everything he's known in his 36-year life. He's planned...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":16530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[],"meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,59],"tags":[398],"person":[340],"class_list":["post-16492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bogomtaler","category-litteratur-og-skrivepraksis","tag-bogomtale","person-hanne-linde"],"subtitle":"","embedded_audio":"","hasaudio":"0","hide_featured_image_on_post":"0","nobio":"1","infobox":"","quote":"","year_published":"2020","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40017,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions\/40017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kontemplation.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=16492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Mingyur_lille-300x201.jpg\")
In fact, his journey began much earlier. When he was nine years old, his father asked him the question: \u201dWho are you? Are you Mingyur Rinpoche?\u201d A question that ignited his curiosity and search for the \u201dreal me.\u201d It became a search that went through meditative practice, numerous years of retreats and studies of Buddhist psychology and philosophy. Together with other young monks, he received intense mindfulness training to deepen his understanding of the subtle layers of reality. A teaching that made him familiar with how the mind works. How the mind creates labels and shapes our perception of ourselves and the world. It was in order to examine these constructed labels, which function as a kind of clothing on the outside of our original consciousness, that he decided to strip them off. He was aware that his constructed label was shaped by his upbringing and status, and that it was adapted to the circumstances he had found himself in up to now. That evening in the taxi, his desire was to leave behind the identity as a monk, brother, Buddhist, meditation teacher, tulku<\/a>, abbot, writer, Tibetan Nepalese and embarked on a search for his essential self. He threw more fuel on the fire, as the Buddhists say. He wanted to accelerate the process by stripping himself of the robes that he felt were in the way and were for decoration. He wanted to get to know his true self \u2013 his essence \u2013 better.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kontemplation.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/forelsket-i-verden-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a>This journey is described in the breathtaking book:<\/strong> In love with the world \u2013 a monk's journey of discovery into the world and into himself.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/strong>Hanne Linde
\n<\/strong>is a visual artist and mindfulness teacher. She has extensive experience teaching both children and adults and is employed by Gentofte Municipality as a teaching consultant in creativity, relationship skills and mindfulness training. Hanne is part of the Kontemplation team and hostess at several of our retreats and courses.
\nRead more about Hanne here: hannelinde.dk<\/a><\/p>\n