Transmuting Suffering

Michelle Medrano presents a Tonglen-inspired affirmative prayer guided meditation practice that is inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist practice, Tonglen, giving, and receiving. Kent Rautenstraus provides gentle yet powerful background music on the piano. Relieve all suffering by participating in this beautiful process.

Transcript

So I invite us just to take a deep breath and go within and getting centered.

We have the spiritual courage to allow ourselves to consider some area of life that concerns us,

That we experience fear or worry,

Doubt about,

And we breathe it in.

We breathe it in,

We take it in,

We see it,

We acknowledge it.

And as we breathe it in,

We feel the light of our own being,

The light of the divine meeting and greeting that situation and condition.

Even bowing to it,

Seeing it fully,

No need to try to change it or fix it,

Just allowing presence,

The presence of light and breathing it out.

And as we breathe it out,

Seeing light going forth from us into that situation,

Taking another breath in,

Breathing in either the same condition or a different one that bothers us,

Breathing it in,

Being fully present to it,

Bringing the presence of our own light and breathing it out.

And one more time,

Breathing in,

Condition that bothers us,

Looking fully at it,

Naming it in our beingness,

Bringing our light to it,

Our presence,

Knowing that something in us,

As us,

That's greater than us is present to,

In,

And through,

And as,

As we breathe it out.

I accept and affirm in all of this practice that we go forth from this place empowered,

Inspired and uplifted to continue to anchor the light this week,

To stand as witness to the truth and the wholeness of the light that lives as us,

The healing light that we are and that we can bring to bear on any concerning problem,

Situation or condition in our world and in the world of all others whom we share this planet with.

We stand fully in and as the light,

Joyously immersed in it,

Breathing in everywhere we go that breath of heaven,

Breathing it in,

Allowing it to nurture us,

To uplift us,

To remind us of the Christ light that lives in us and as us.

I stand firmly in this prayer knowing this truth about myself and all who hear these words accepting and affirming that the light,

The light is breaking forth on our planet like never before.

We are the light.

We live the light.

We are the footprints of light.

Thank you life.

Thank you.

We let this be and let it go.

And so it is.

Reviews

Beautiful way to offer up our suffering, at the foot of the cross🙏🏽❤️‍🩹😉

I really like the idea that this meditation moves on: breath in, name and identify a matter that causes suffering/irritation/unsatisfactoryness for you, let your inner light/presence/awareness shine on it, and breath it out and let it go. Will also work for a longer meditation :) thank you

So calming and centering, thank you!! 🙏🏻🙄😊

Beautifully relaxing and centering. Thank you, Dr. Michelle.