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Mingyur Rinpoche, a Buddhist Monk, taught a simple meditation training in our last post. As you might have noticed, he is not the same monk who coined the idea of the puppy mind I mentioned in our first blog post on mediation. Mingyur uses the term ‘monkey mind’ to describe the all over the place, and into everything way our mind wanders in the same way that the Vancouver monk I worked with used the idea of a puppy mind. Both monkeys and puppies have a playfulness about them. There is a lightness to them.

In our last post, we talked about the critical voice that can come up when you try to meditate and in previous posts we have looked at our reactions to meditation, and what to expect when trying to meditate. Now, we are going to look at why we would consider trying it at all!