Mingyur Rinpoche’s honorific is the Very Venerable Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. When I first heard of it, I thought to myself, “I wonder how it must be like to be the guy who is Only Slightly Venerable”. And then I realized, that guy is me. I got to...
One of the things I’m known for is my celebrity wall (“Meng’s Wall”) at the Googleplex. When people tell me I’ve got a great wall, I would joke (with an almost made-up Chinese accent), “I Chinese, I build great wall”. When I...
I should really be a vegetarian, for the good karma. But I enjoy the taste of meat too much, especially sashimi. What to do? I figured out a solution: Karma offsets. All I have to do is to pay a meat-eater to become a vegetarian, in order to offset my own bad...
One of the biggest surprises in the development of samadhi (concentration) is the insight that samadhi arises from letting go. Letting go gives rise to relaxation. Relaxation gives rise to calmness (of mind). Calmness gives rise to (mental) stability. And...
