Comments on: Pema Chodron: How to do Tonglen, a meditation practice for difficult times.

By: Agapeyoga

Agapeyoga — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:34:35 +0000

This is my first intro to Pema and Tonglen practice. When the student is ready…

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Why should I go Vegan in 2012? #NewYearsResolutions | elephant journal — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:51:23 +0000

[...] forward 10 years or so and my Buddhist practice of tonglen (compassion meditation, you could call it) and my newfound passion for environmental responsibility [...]

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Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:04:17 +0000

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"Steve Jobs recent picture. He looks really bad." | elephant journal — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:05:34 +0000

[...] the Buddhist tradition, we do tonglen for those who may be suffering. Still, impermanence is fundamental to this life, and death may come [...]

By: Pema Chodron: Times of great adversity offer the perfect opportunity for enlightenment. {Buddhism} | elephant journal

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:37:18 +0000

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Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:44:53 +0000

[...] practice that, in my limited experience, works best as a tonic for sadness or madness is called tonglen, or sending and taking [...]

By: Buddhadharma in Everyday Life, Lojong: Liberate Yourself By Examining and Analyzing. ~ Linda Lewis | elephant journal

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:23:29 +0000

[...] it’s good to be like the king, to work on ourself first, to learn to meditate and practice tonglen (giving and taking) in order to erode our habit of clinging to “me” and to [...]

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:33:36 +0000

I think of perceived obstacles to practice as "if onlys." For example, if only such and such were not the case—if only my back didn't hurt, there wasn't so much noise, the person next to me wasn't breathing so loudly, I had a better zafu, etc.—then I could really meditate. It's so freeing to realize that the back pain, noise, loud breathing and crappy zafu ARE present truth, and ARE the meditation. It's the idea that these things are obstacles that creates the obstacle.

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Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:16:30 +0000

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