On day 4 of the tonglen retreat Saddhanandi talks about tonglen for others. She describes how the breath helps us to breathe in and turn towards what we usually ignore, resist or block to defend ourselves from the suffering we see in others.
A led meditation from Day Three of the 2014 Spring Tonglen Retreat at Taraloka.
Self-tonglen: First turning towards your own experience, then towards the unsatisfactory aspects and later to the joyful aspects. You end by simply being in a space of open awareness.
Dharmashalin works at the Birmingham Buddhist Centre, his role there is to find ways of communicating Buddhist values and meditation in the wider community.
On day three of the tonglen retreat here at Taraloka, self-tonglen takes centre stage.
At the start of her talk Saddhanandi refers to one of the seven point mind training slogans: ‘begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself’. We start by turning towards what’s going on in our experience right now.
From Triratna News on Mon, 24 Mar, 2014 - 12:58Karmavajra writes from India, saying -
“Dhammachari Suvachin passed away around 10 am Tuesday 18 March 2014 (Indian time) at his residence in Nanded Maharashtra, India. He was 81 years of age. His son Dhammachari Padmasen was with him in his last time. He had been hospitalised for the last month.”
Suvachin was ordained in 1999 at Bhaja in India, with Subhuti as his private and public preceptor.
From Taraloka Retreat Centre on Mon, 24 Mar, 2014 - 08:55A bright hard frost this morning, after a clear starry night. The wind has dropped and it’s absolutely still.
At 11am, I’ll be presenting Tonglen in relation to ‘self’. I’ve been remembering a period of time when I was quite new to meditation, and how I had to face certain uncomfortable truths about myself: five hard years of going on retreat acknowledging what was really happening! But the work that I did on myself during those years has become...
Talk given at the LBCs Dharma Night March 17th 2014
