Meditation Training | A Meditation Practice of Compassion for self and others

Tonglen is considered one of the most favorite forms of meditation. Meditation is used as a way of self-development to gain control over one's behaviors. It also has therapeutic applications as meditation is said to build focus and creativity. People who are familiar with it will know that tonglen is a compassion MeditationTraining. The practice of Tonglen, also known as “receiving and giving,” reverses human logical thinking of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. In tonglen practice, one is said to visualize taking in the pain and suffering of others with every breath taken in and sending out whatever will benefit them while breathing out. In the process, people who practice tonglen become liberated from old patterns of human selfishness. In this way, the deep connection and love for others is felt beyond love for one’s self.

Having compassion for others is a way to experience unity, oneness, and a sense of belonging. When you experience oneness, you feel peaceful because the guilt of ego and pride is deleted. This is the place of unending potential and the source of creativity. This state is also the most fertile ground on which one can be said to achieve the undoable. However, a majority of people are reluctant assimilating eastern practices with western cultures. The idea of consciously facing pain and suffering makes many to be fearful and dreadful. These feelings come about because the practice of Tonglen itself is deeply misunderstood by the masses.

Healing of body and mind are accomplished by accepting and acknowledging the negative and then reframing it into the positive outcome desired in a deep state. In other words, you acknowledge two opposites with equal strength and thus create a neutral position. Come to think of it, the universe itself always seeks balance because from this state it renews itself and evolves. This principle naturally, is also true for humans, since we are an expression of the universe and our existence is guided by the laws of nature. We are constantly changing and evolving, and if we learn to allow the process this can happen so easily. Unfortunately, we have been accustomed to operate against, rather than with the laws of nature.

Going with the flow means working with the universal laws. It can feel strange, unreal and illogical, hence we don't do it. But this is only so because we have had, until now, a very limited, thus false view of how the world operates. As a result, we create impediments for ourselves, which we experience as delays in meeting our goals, and this can cause us much suffering. In order to evolve and connect with the world free from interference, (our pessimistic and limiting conditionings), our minds need to become more active and creative. When you learn to be mentally agile, you also go with the flow automatically and let change take place with very little to no resistance.

Practicing tonglen trains your Mindfulness Training Online as you move from acknowledging the negative to visualizing the positive, in split seconds. It is a practice to replace pessimism with optimism. Practicing tonglen daily will keep your mind in a very peaceful state because the feelings of negativity do not longer occupy your mind. The outcome is a feeling of neutrality for both mental and physical rebirth. In this state, new visions and ideas are produced aimed at effortlessly producing solutions to your problems which do not only benefit you as an individual but the world at large.