As Mingyur Rinpoche has traveled and met thousands of people worldwide, he is often asked for support in maintaining good mental health. Particularly at this time, he has noticed greater emotional turbulence and less resilience. Whatever their causes — be it global conflicts, climate change, political instability, or racism — people are facing growing anxiety, depression, loneliness, and low self-esteem. In this month’s teaching, Rinpoche shares seven practical ways to support your mind and body. By adopting these simple strategies, you can develop greater resilience in the face of modern challenges.

On the spiritual path, do we need a teacher? What if we are just beginning, or perhaps further along the path? How should we relate to a teacher? In this month’s teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche shares the qualities we should look for in a teacher, three styles of relating to teachers, and the four different types of teachers.

Although meditation instructions are often simple and easy to understand, knowing whether we are practicing correctly can be difficult. How do we know if it is being effective and helping us progress along the path of awakening? In this monthly teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche gives helpful advice to assess how our calm abiding practice or insight meditation practice is progressing.

In this monthly teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche gives us incredibly helpful advice on how to get better sleep. By explaining the view, experience, and application of meditation through our daily activities, he shows us how we can develop good habits for a restful night’s sleep.

Modern society moves at an ever-increasing pace, with convenience and seemingly endless opportunities available with a tap of a finger on our phones. This convenience has made us quite impatient. What do we do when we are impatient with our spiritual progress? In this monthly teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche gives us advice on how to be patient with our practice — using all aspects of life, day by day, to connect with awareness.