Dharamshala: Department of Education organised teaching cum workshop on meditation by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche to the Philosophy teachers and B.Ed trainees at College for Higher Tibetan Studies (CHTS), Sarah.
More than 40 people attended a teaching cum workshop on meditation.
Tsering Samdup, head of Education Council briefly introduced Mingyur Rinpoche to the teachers and trainees.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche began his teaching by greeting all teachers and trainees. Relating to the meditation he simplifies it into ABC; Affect, Behaviour and Cognition.
He further elaborated that behaviour begins from daily doing of habits and cited the example of the daily bell sound for meal time. Whenever the person hears the sound of a bell, he or she will have a watery mouth and eagerness to eat.
In order to understand it in a more simpler way, he talked about physiotherapy process. Where it is combined behaviour and cognitive therapy to treat patients. He said, “In western, they do practice such therapy but combining of Affect to above two can be found only in Buddhism”.
Migyur Rinpoche commended about how rich is Buddhism teaching in regarding meditation. He later taught about a posture of meditating and let them practice with a sound of a singing bowl.
He will be taking three sessions and followed by a talk on “Importance of mediation and its practices in daily life to students and lecturers of CHTS, Sarah in the afternoon.
Tsering Samdup, head of Education council announced that a felicitation ceremony for Mingyur Rinpoche would be organised in the afternoon.