Happy Mind: Meditations from the Ancient World to Modernity

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 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 and healed self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to reconnect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 20 minute version of the Past Regret Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 ignored. To the contrary, Tonglen allows you to integrate it into your complete and healed self. There is a still surface above the darkness that is safe and light and hopeful and endlessly renewed. Tonglen allows you to reconnect with that safety and light and hope. This is a 10 minute version of the Past Regret Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

'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 heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, but everyone wages an ongoing battle with dissatisfaction or pain of some kind or another. This Buddhist practice can heal these old wounds and help you release the pain you endure. This is a 1 hour version of the 'Self-Tonglen' guided meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 practices that can heal that pain. Your suffering may be more or less fresh, more or less chronic, but everyone wages an ongoing battle with dissatisfaction or pain of some kind or another. This Buddhist practice can heal these old wounds and help you release the pain you endure. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' guided meditation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 this technique to comfort and heal this child within. 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 just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 30 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 this technique to comfort and heal this child within. 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 just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 20 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 just follow a simple, basic rhythm of thought, breath and emotional patterning and the suffering ceases or at least reduces. It is one of the oldest, and very best, brain hacks of all time. This is a 10 minute version of the 'Self-Tonglen' practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 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 yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 1 hour version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 45 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 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 yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 10 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 anguish, bearing witness to it with an open heart and fearless acceptance of this suffering, you heal yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself, and you transform the pain into joy, the darkness into light. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. 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.This is a 20 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

'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 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 yourself, you awaken a bottomless compassion within yourself. By bringing an open hearted presence, a loving and fearless presence to your own pain or loss, you unlock the healing alchemy of compassion and love. This is a 30 minute version of the 'Environment of the Mind' Tonglen practice. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 you do that, and why does it work?  Well, it works because resistance, holding on, and wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation of us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion and wakes us up. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 45 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 60 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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 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 wanting are the source of suffering. They are the mind patterns that sustain the illusion of our separation of us from our true self. So, letting go shatters that illusion. And when the illusion is shattered, we sense the connection to the universal love and power and peace that is our source. That is why it works. But how do you do it and when can you practice it? In fact, you can practice it every day, all the time. Every thought that arises, every want, every resistance you have, you simply let go of it. Over and over again until it is second nature. With enough practice, the letting go becomes a reflex. And those who have taken this path before you teach that eventually, with enough letting go, the neurological habits of holding on and resisting and wanting fade away and your consciousness will stabilize on the true nature of your mind. The structure of your brain literally experiences a permanent physical and electrochemical change. This is a 10 minute version of the Reconnect with your Source episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.