Styles of Tonglen - part 2
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- Published: Sunday, 12 April 2020 14:53
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Drawn from Pema Chödrön's ' Good Medicine' from her Audio Collection
The simplest style of tonglen is 'On the Spot'. It's about taking a tonglen attitude towards pleasure and plain. So, when things are painful or difficult we can remember to practice the simple thought: 'other people feel this'. This can help mitigate the feeling that pain is an individual burden. Because the sense of shared humanity is emotionally healing. This is enough to open our hearts. There can be other, more challenging levels, but this simple practice of remembering is good enough.
The other half of the practice is whenever we experience happiness in life we remember to say/think/feel "May others feel this". It can apply to any everyday pleasure such as enjoying a cup of tea or watching or listening to a blackbird. (cf Rick Hanson's 'Feeling the good').
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