Tonglen practice with Lama Surya Das

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Tonglen practice with Lama Surya Das

• Tonglen is a Tibetan word that exactly means
  giving and receiving. This is a Buddhist
  meditation practice to grow sympathy, humanity,
  and courageousness. It also helps us by
  acknowledging our own worries and anger,
  dissolving decisions on ourselves and others. In
  tonglen practice when we feel distress, we
  breathe in with the conception of fully feeling
  it and accepting it. Then we breathe out, bright
  sympathy, loving-kindness, freshness anything
  that supports relaxation and openness. The
  practical reason of tonglen is to decrease the
  amount and density of suffering in the world and
  to replace it with total capaciousness.

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Why Practice Tonglen?   There is great potential
for personal and spiritual development through
the practice of Tonglen. Those who are looking
for enlightenment through the way of Buddhism
choose to practice it because it helps them
increase fearless compassion for all creation.
But there are benefits for others, who are not
practicing Buddhism, as well. When you start to
use Tonglen, you will learn that the practice
actually helps you heal you own past and present
suffering, while you are focusing on helping
others. Tonglen can also help stop emotional
burnout and can change your relations with other
people. Lama Surya Das shares how to practice
Tonglen?   1. Relax your mind and center
yourself. Briefly in a position of silence. Find
a heart-space of kindness and love.
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Meditate for a moment on who is in distress -
you, your friend, your enemy, the world. 2. Work
with feel. Ride the breath as you inhale, focus
on the good in your life and as you exhale, let
go off your challenge, clash and the things that
disconnect you from others. As you inhale, it
might be supportive to offer these words May the
difficulty, worries and fears in the world be
engaged into the clear nature of my mind. And as
you exhale May all beings have all my
happiness, passion and boldness.   3. Continue to
inhale and exhale, balance the outside and inside
and reversing the tendency to be attracted to the
wanted and averse to the unwanted, past the
illusions of our own satisfaction or self-
interest.   4. Breathe - Visualize and imagine
inhaling the difficulties of those close to your
heart, exhaling the goodness. Open the circle
outward until it encompasses all beings
throughout space and time.
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5. Whatever you meet, bring it into your breath,
your heart and your path. Face it. Dont try to
get around it, hope it is not there or ignore
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