Tonglen Monthly

The second Saturday of each month we practice Tonglen (Taking and Sending) for two hours. You can come any time between 10 AM and Noon (Pacific time) and stay as long as you like. Meditations are guided by a teacher. Beginners are welcome. This practice session is on Zoom.

Tonglen is a meditation practice that uses altruistic intention and visualization to counter some of the greatest obstacles to awakening. By engaging all six of the perfections (giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom), tonglen:

  • reduces selfishness and self-centered suffering
  • increases renunciation, so one is more free from grasping and fully at ease
  • purifies negative habit-patterns that limit one’s ability to experience compassion and wisdom
  • expands loving-kindness
  • and cultivates the awakening heart (bodhicitta), a cause of good meditation and increased equanimity and joy.

Though highly efficacious in reducing suffering and increasing strength and pliancy of both heart and mind, tonglen is a simple practice that can be done in formal meditation and also be easily carried in one’s daily activities. Beginners are welcome to these monthly practice sessions. Instructions will be given. This is excellent preparing for our annual Tonglen retreat.

Event List

April 2024

Lhatong: Seeing Clearly (1 of 4)

Four Wednesday evenings
  • Practice & Study Group

April 3, 2024 - April 24, 2024
DATE: April 3, 2024
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

The Way of the Bodhisattva (5 of 12)

  • Practice & Study Group

February 8, 2024 - July 25, 2024
DATE: April 4, 2024
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Lhatong: Seeing Clearly (2 of 4)

Four Wednesday Evenings
  • Class

April 3, 2024 - April 24, 2024
DATE: April 10, 2024

Lhatong: Seeing Clearly (3 of 4)

Four Wednesday Evenings
  • Class

April 3, 2024 - April 24, 2024
DATE: April 17, 2024

The Way of the Bodhisattva (6 of 12)

  • Practice & Study Group

February 8, 2024 - July 25, 2024
DATE: April 18, 2024
TIME: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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