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51. Deepening Tonglen
IN TONGLEN, after genuinely connecting with the pain and your ability to open and let go, then take the practice a step further and do it for all sentient beings. This is a key point about tonglen: your own experience of pleasure and pain becomes the way that you recognize your kinship with all sentient beings. Practicing tonglen is the way you can share in the joy and the sorrow of everyone who’s ever lived, everyone who’s living now, and everyone who will ever live.
Whatever discomfort you feel becomes useful. “I’m miserable, I’m depressed. Okay. Let me feel it fully so that nobody else has to feel it, so that others could be free of it.” It starts to awaken your heart because you have this aspiration to say, “This pain can be of benefit to others because I can be courageous enough to feel it fully so no one else has to.” The joy that you feel, the sense of being able to open up and let go, also becomes a way you connect with others. On the out-breath you say, “Let me give away anything good or true that I ever feel, any sense of humor, any sense of enjoying the sun coming up and going down, any sense of delight in the world at all, so that everybody else may share in this and feel it.”
If we are willing—even for one second a day—to make an aspiration to use our own pain and pleasure to help others, we are actually able to do it that much more. We can do this practice in any situation. Start with yourself. You can extend the practice to situations in which compassion spontaneously arises, exchanging yourself for someone you want to help. Then you move on to a slightly more difficult area, one in which compassion is not necessarily your first response.
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