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How to Train a Happy Mind

Guided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with Others #30

Aug 18, 2020
24:52

Tonglen is a meditation practice that combines meditating on loving-kindness with meditating on compassion to release our own pain, suffering, and loneliness. In translation, tonglen practice can be called “taking and giving” or “exchanging self with other." Tonglen is one of the “mind training” techniques from Tibetan Buddhism that reverses our ordinary state of mind of selfishly seeking happiness and pleasure for ourselves and those close to us. Instead, we willingly open ourselves to the suffering of others.

Episode 30. Guided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with Others

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