Being Well Podcast: Mingyur Rinpoche: A Meditation Master on Anxiety, Awareness, and Awakening

In this episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, to explore calming anxiety with awareness, relaxing unhealthy wanting, and finding a deeper sense of our innate goodness. Rinpoche shares how a near-death experience during his four-year “wandering retreat” transformed his relationship to fear and deepened his gratitude for life. They discuss practical ways to see the true nature of the mind, soften the grip of aversion and attachment, reframe fear as care, and embrace impermanence as a path to freedom.

Key Topics

• 0:00: Introduction
• 3:33: How a near-death experience dissolved Rinpoche’s fear
• 7:06: Learning not to fight panic attacks
• 10:25: Seeing anxiety as clouds in the sky
• 14:18: Awareness, wisdom, and love as innate qualities
• 18:39: Recognizing basic goodness even in self-hatred
• 25:28: Courage to be with doubt and uncertainty
• 27:51: “Anytime, anywhere” meditation practice
• 33:57: Awareness and emptiness as inseparable
• 46:49: Letting old selves die and embracing change
• 52:41: Recap

Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there.