Awaken Your Creativity: Nurture Empathy With Tonglen Meditation

Free Online Guided Session

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When do you stop feeling for others? It happens in that moment you choose to first numb yourself to your own feelings. Your own pain. Your own suffering.

To have empathy for others, you need to take three simple steps

Step 01: Feel your own emotions. Your suffering. Your pain. Your hurt. The ones that make you want to numb your feelings so you don’t have to feel them. Feel these with each breath that you slowly draw in to your heart. A visualization and guided technique in this meditation gently eases you into this.

Step 02: Release and transform that suffering. Into joy. Happiness. Tenderness. Love. Compassion. Through each breath that you slowly breathe out.

Step 03: Once you feel yourself relaxing into your new equilibrium, shift your focus to your loved ones. Or someone towards whom you carry some hurt. Or a larger group of similar people. Repeat step one and two, this time breathing in their suffering and hurt and transforming it into love and happiness with each breath out.

Wow! This is powerful stuff. No prior expertise required. So whether you are a beginner. Or after years of practice still a beginner like me. Just tap this button while saying to yourself:

“I wish to let go of my hurt and suffering. And then of others”

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Tonglen is an ancient Tibetan Buddhism meditation technique. It means ‘sending and receiving’. You may search the web for more info.

• The meditation session will last 50 minutes
• Starts from 4:00PM sharp and ends at 4:50PM. All times IST. On Sunday, 12 July 2020
• Will be conducted online using a videoconf tool. So log in from anywhere in the world
• It may have 3 to 4 stages depending on the variation we explore in that moment. Yes, the above three steps are covered through these stages
• The meditation session is free and for a curated audience
• You need to fill in a simple, online evaluation form. If you’re selected you will be informed via email and/or phone. Login details will be then be shared.

“I wish to let go of my hurt and suffering. And then of others”

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Why Am i Conducting This?

I have been practicing Tonglen in various forms and iterations since quite some time. Mostly alone and in various situations. Wish to go deeper into its practice. A group energy creates that strength-in-numbers. It supports and nurtures all of us. Especially beginners.

Also because in this acute moment of crisis, our world needs Tonglen

“I wish to let go of my hurt and suffering. And then of others”

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Credit – Acrylic on canvas Painting: ‘Inner Temple’ © July 2020 by Asha Rajkumari