Weekly Compassion Practice Group (Tonglen)

Weekly Compassion Practice: The practice of sending and taking through the medium of the breath (tonglen) provides an opportunity to cultivate compassion by transforming our own and the world’s suffering into openness, care and healing for others. We begin the session with a brief meta practice (cultivating loving-kindness) and soon transition into the tonglen practice of transforming our concern for suffering into a very real visualization for such suffering to cease. Sessions include instruction and a brief discussion.

This weekly group is facilitated by BCD Coordinating Committee member Rachel Faro. Rachel is a senior meditation teacher and practitioner within the Shambhala and Tibetan Buddhist traditions who has taught and led meditation retreats, classes and workshops in Europe, Latin America, South Africa and throughout the United States. A personal student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she has been training, practicing and teaching since the early 1970’s.

This weekly gorup will include:

5 minutes instruction
5 minutes meditation practice
10 minutes Meta/Tonglen practice
10 minutes meditation practice
10 minutes discussion

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