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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.

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Tonglen practice with Lama Surya Das

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 5. Whatever you meet, bring it into your breath, your heart and your path. Face it. Don’t try to get around it, hope it is not there or ignore it. Article Source - http://lamasuryadivorce.webs.com/apps/blog/show/43593096-tonglen-practice-with-lama-surya-das

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