Tonglen Compassion Practice

This beautifully guided Tonglen meditation practice of giving and receiving took place at the end of one of Jonas's live, uplifting talks. Allow pain and suffering to be released as we welcome love and peace.

Note: Sound quality is low due to this being recorded during a live event.

Transcript

So why don't we close our eyes,

Please.

Take a deep breath,

Please.

Inhale.

And sigh.

Ah.

And one more time.

Ah.

We're going to do a practice.

I think we may have done this a long,

Long time ago.

It's called Tong Lin.

It's a Buddhist practice.

So close the eyes.

And be aware of the challenges that we have that cause us distress,

The injustices of the world,

The fear,

The anger.

Just be aware of all of that energy that we sometimes experience ourselves.

And by the way,

This is another practice we can do.

So what this practice involves is as we inhale,

We're going to breathe in all of that suffering that humanity is experiencing.

And as we exhale,

We release it in love.

So we breathe in not just way bigger than us.

We breathe in the collective distress of the world,

All the people that are afraid and angry and confused.

We breathe in their distress as we inhale and we exhale love.

We inhale the anger.

We exhale love.

We inhale the fear.

And we exhale love.

And notice as we do this that our own suffering and notice as we do this that our own distress is quelled and our own internal peace increases.

Just continue with this practice of breathing in that which surrounds us,

That agitation and stress and exhaling love and filling the world with your love,

Every heart.

And now just remain with the eyes closed and I'll share this healing mantra with you.

Om.

Trium bagham yajamahe sugandhim pujthivardhanam.

Uvarugam eva bandhanat.

Mrit yor mokshi mamratata.

Om.

Trium bagham yajamahe sugandhim pujthivardhanam.

Uvarugam eva bandhanat.

Mrit yor mokshi mamratata.

Om.

Trium bagham yajamahe sugandhim pujthivardhanam.

Uvarugam eva bandhanat.

Mrit yor mokshi mamratata.

Om.

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti.

And when you're ready,

Just slowly open the eyes.

Reviews

Tonglen is such a healing and centering practice. Thank you for the lovely guidance and the beautiful chanted mantra.
Donna

I love it when you say “ now close your eyes” because soon after you bring peace to my soul. Thank you 🙏🏼Namaste 🙏🏼

A nice mini Tonglen practice when you're short on time, thank you for sharing ❤

Thank you, I love practicing Tonglen and connecting from pain to love, from fear to love, from uncertainty to love.

Beautiful and peace producing.

I really enjoyed the mantra. Could you tell me the name of it and what it means?

Beautiful. Thank you. Such heart healing 💛✨🙏