Tonglen: Transforming Suffering, Cultivating Compassion

With Christine Farag

January 21, 2022

Date and Time Details: January 21, 2022 from1-4PM EST

Location: Online via Zoom

Prices
  • $80.00 – covers all the expenses of the program and supports others who cannot afford to attend
  • $60.00 – covers most of the expenses of the program
  • $40.00 – covers some of the expenses of the program

Tonglen directly translates to “sending and receiving” in Tibetan, and is used as a therapeutic tool in Tibetan medicine. We will be learning Tonglen, an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice. Through this form of mind training, we will cultivate loving kindness and compassion and transform pain and suffering. Through this practice, we will learn to face our own pain and the pain of others while strengthening our resolve to serve and be of benefit. This program is perfect for anyone who wants to expand their meditation practice and receive more compassion from themselves and others. It is also a wonderful practice for anyone in healing professions, or anyone working with pain and suffering. 

Techniques we will use: 

  • Breath work
  • Visualization

Skills we will develop: 

  • Anchoring in Bodhicitta or “enlightenment-mind”
  • Courage to face difficulties and hardship
  • Transforming perceptions of pain and suffering
  • Increased loving kindness and compassion

About the Leader

Christine Farag

Christine Farag, M.D. has trained, studied and practiced the Karma Kagyu Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism extensively under the guidance of Venerable 14th Quni Jiangchu Rinpoche, while simultaneously serving as a physician for nuns and monks at Shou Gou monastery in the Himalayas. Dr. Farag has also received teachings from other teachers such as HH Dalai Lama and HH Karmapa. […]

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