Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

Tonglen, the Buddhist meditation practice of 'sending and receiving' works in an almost alchemical way to relieve the suffering of others and your personal pain at the same time. The practice of Tonglen fires up a boiler or a smithy within the soul and then guides you to shovel the jet black coal of suffering into the white hot flames in the furnace. Through the practice, the universe uses you as...

Many of us suffer terribly. Whether it is physical or psychological pain, the suffering deep down within us can be unbearable. And we often know others who struggle with their own demons. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen is a simple practice that allows you to connect with that safety and light and hope. Using the al...

In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. This ancient Buddhist technique is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. The method is to just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering within ourselves ceases, or at least reduces, and almost magically, we help alleviat...

The age-old Buddhist practice of Tonglen can be used to help another person or people who are in pain. If there is someone who is suffering, or some group of people, and you would like to help and support them with your love, you can use this technique to do just that. Tonglen means giving and receiving and in this meditation you will do just that, receiving their suffering and giving your love. N...

Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete self. There is a st...

There is hardly a person that doesn't have emotional wounds from the past. Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal them. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy...

Tonglen is a method that can be used to heal old emotional wounds. If you can open your heart to your pain and your past, you can become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This d...

Everyone has regrets. Sometimes you are the wrongdoer, sometimes you are the victim. Sometimes it is a little of both. Regardless, by bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy...

By bringing an open heart to your pain and your past, you become the vehicle for your own healing. Tonglen is a method of using a loving and fearless presence to bear witness to the memories or negative emotions that haunt you. Through the almost other-worldly alchemy of compassion you can cleanse yourself of this past. This doesn’t mean that the deep well of grief and fear and anguish is gone or...

'Tonglen' was developed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to help heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are practices that can hea...

The Tibetan technique called 'Tonglen' was honed over hundreds and possibly thousands of years to heal the most painful and disturbing parts of our selves and our past. It continues to be widely practiced today across the world for the simple reason that it works. The methodology has stood the test of time for this reason. Each of us has a history of injury or anguish or suffering and there are pr...

In this meditation we will utilize the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize t...

This guided meditation is based on the ancient Buddhist practice called Tonglen. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. It is designed to help you relieve suffering or anguish. You might have been a small child long ago when the emotional wounds were inflicted. But you can embody that little you in your mind and utilize t...

Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist practice developed to relieve suffering or anguish. In Tibetan ‘tong’ can be translated as ‘letting go’ or ‘sending out’ and ‘len’ can mean ‘receiving’ or ‘accepting’. One of the advantages of this practice is that we don't have to work out what our problems are. We don't have to engage in months or years of therapy, we don't have to follow a guru or join a group. We...

In a surprising reversal of the normal logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure, the ancient Tonglen practice uses the exact opposite logic to achieve an even better outcome. Pleasure, like pain, is fleeting. But true peace, uncapped spaciousness and profound compassion are sustainable sensibilities that are unlocked through this paradoxical technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan...

The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yo...

Tonglen is an millennia-old Tibetan technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open...

The Environment of the Mind can be transformed using this millennia-old Buddhist Tonglen technique. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of being present and open to your own suffering, being willing to receive and integrate the suffering and pain within yourself. In the simple act of being unflinchingly present for your own angu...

'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen is an ancient Buddhist technique to help you release suffering within yourself (or on behalf of others too). It has survived in more or less the same form through successive generations for many hundreds of years in the Buddhist traditions of Tibet. The word ‘Tonglen’ itself is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or sending and receiving). It is a practice of be...

You aren't who you think you are. It is like you are asleep to the truth of who you really are. That is why they call it 'waking up.' But how do we wake up? An enlightened master once told me that the secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do...

What is enlightenment? And how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?   Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanti...

What is enlightenment? The reports from those who experienced this extraordinary brain-state hold the promise that we can transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human. But how do we experience it? An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great on...

There are reports from every culture and every age of certain human beings who somehow seem to be able to transcend the emotional disturbances that seem to be a given element of being a human being. An enlightened master once told me that their secret was simple: letting go. Anyone could experience this life of peace and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go....

An enlightened master once told me that the secret to a life of continual peace and joy was letting go. Anyone could experience the life of peace and love and joy and illumination that the great ones speak of just by learning to let go. Letting go. It was that simple. But how do you do that, and why does it work?   It works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of su...

This 90 minute long episode is an adaptation of a lesson taught by George Falcon, an enlightened Qi Gong master who passed away in recent times. It begins with a simple breathing and body scan meditation, transitions to a steady contemplation on the nature of the self and finishes with a sustained meditation on your true I AM. From the earliest wisdom teachers to the great living masters of today,...