When you are sad and depressed, when life seems to have lost its meaning, that is the moment when bodhicitta is most needed.
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Tonglen
When somebody is suffering, most cultures answer: distance yourself. Tibetan Buddhism answers: breathe them in. Tonglen, the practice of giving and taking through breath, is the most counterintuitive meditation in any tradition — and the most powerful. This page is its working be…
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