#30 Pema Chodron - Tonglen Meditation
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- Pema Chödrön is an American-born Buddhist nun and the author of books including When Things Fall Apart, Taking the Leap, and Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better. She serves as resident teacher at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia and is a student of Dzigar Kongtrul, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and the late Chögyam Trungpa.
This special feature of the Meditation Summit is an excerpt from an archival recording with Pema Chödrön on Good Medicine: How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation. Tonglen literally means “taking and sending” and is a Tibetan Buddhist practice for relieving suffering of ourselves, others, and the world. Pema illuminates:
• The “tonglen attitude,” an attitude we can use on the spot in order to soften our hearts and connect with our shared humanity
• Holding a tonglen attitude toward pain and also toward pleasure (what she calls “sharing the wealth”) in both small and big moments of our lives
• The formal practice of tonglen meditation-in this guided experience of tonglen, we select as the focus of our practice a family member who is suffering, and then we universalize our practice for all who suffer in a similar way
This is one of the best recordings of teaching tonglen. The pace does require patience, but every bite has flavor. This is a valuable practice for Buddhists and non-Buddhists.
I am proud , honoured and appreciative to translate your books ,Mrs.Chodron 🙏🏻
I have been practicing Buddhism for a year. Today, in Dharma class, I heard about Tonglen for the first time, but with little information . Your instruction is very helpful. ❤
Tonglen meditation beginning bell: 34:32
33:00
(Marking the start of the meditation for future personal meditations)
This is lovely. Gets me out of my self serving ego.
This is the way I've always meditated. Just seemed right...💖🙏
This is such a sweet way to practice Tonglen. It's taken a few years to land with me but Pema and Tara Brach really make it an accessible practice. So grateful for teachings like this that can bring me close to sanity... Sometimes 😄
Thanks for your humour and fearless good heart Pema 🙏
Thank you for this. I just wished there wasn’t ads. They interrupt the meditation which is disruptive for working with a challenging meditation
Simply a most wonderful person of our time. We are blessed. Thank you for letting me feel I can stay here in this time space reality now.
Great teaching, guided med begins at 33 mins
I so love and appreciate her and thoroughly enjoy her remarkable ability to self-deprecate, but with great love and compassion for herself. Just hearing her do that, I've almost subconsciously been practicing that lately, and the effect it has had on me, has been remarkable. It has helped me to just lighten up on all judgement. I am Pema's age she, is a wonderful guide on this path even unto my dotage!
Our kinship, I feel what some feel, let not me spiral into "I'm the only one!" May we all this become a path away from all, for us. May I feel this so others might be free of this, This for chronic pain, inspiration thinking may others might feel this, Pleasure might be there for one who has none, have this sweetness in their lives!
Oh I loved this so much !! I really needed to discover this practice 🙏🏼✨ thank you Prema and thank you Universe ❤️❤️❤️
I love Pema!! She never fails me❤️❤️
at 5:30 through 7:30, Pema Chodron has offered an amazingly useful insight. using this simple form of Tonglen as an affirmation (not breathing in suffering, ugh not for me) allows me to transform my suffering into an altruisticly useful act that lessens my pain.
blissbrain q
The point of Tonglen is that your original nature is so good that you can afford to breathe in another person's pain and give them all you good possessions. What you learn is that when you give your good stuff away it never runs out, while if you try to hold on to it and guard against other people taking it then it runs out rather quickly. You have an unlimited capacity to take in other's pain, and the more you do it the more pleasure you have, and the more of that pleasure you give away the more you will still have even yet. So try something new, instead of putting up a fence around you to keep the goodness in and negativity out just let all the negativity in and give all you cherish away to others. Only then will you find out just how infinitely wealthy you already really are in your original nature, which is a possession you can never, in fact, lose. If Tonglen ever starts to feel masochistic then you are just on an ego trip. The point is you are really already so wealthy that you can afford to do it, and afford it easily. You just have to give up the fear that there is only such much goodness, in you and try it out for yourself. So the real point of Tonglen is simply to build up trust in the unlimited goodness of your own original nature.
@@JudeMalachi I am a bit puzzled by the initial stage 2 and 3 in the cultivation of a Tonglen attitude in daily life. ie stage 2 says ...may we all feel free of this - this statement is qualified and put another way " may this become path of awakening the heart in all of us" (which sounds great :-). ). But in Stage 3 where one says "since I am feeling this anyway, may I be feeling it so that all others can be free if it," well this statement denies all others the opportunity generously offered in stage 2. Do you see the inconsistency in logic?
Loved this! ❤ except for all of the ad interruptions. It made the meditation a bit of a challenge to stay focused.
Thank you for opens the door for my healings.
Blessings to you and all beings.
might have helped me in a situation years ago... thank you
will practice remembering this when it comes up
This was so refreshing to listen to
Its a test. To focus and ignore the hacking, coughing, sneezing amd nose blowing. 😅 You get used to it...
Thank you
I've always felt that way...
Life changing
At about 46:56 I realized that I wasn’t doing Tonglen.. 😅🤣
This was amazing
🙏🙏
What i should do in the breaks of breath when i dont breath in or out ?
21:28 three stages of tonglen
Tonglen begins 34:24
Thanks for posting this. Is this guided meditation available on one of PC's CDs? If so can you tell me the title so I can buy it? Thank you!
33:20
mhmm
🤔 "Wrong." 😳 👍🏽