{"id":3237,"date":"2019-08-26T18:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicolaecatrina.com\/ro\/?page_id=3237"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T08:57:12","slug":"initiation-into-the-complete-practice-of-tonglen-meditation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nicolaecatrina.com\/en\/tonglen-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiation into the complete practice of TONGLEN MEDITATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Initiation into the complete practice of<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tonglen meditation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

online recorded workshop<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

with Nicolae Catrina<\/h4>\n\n\n
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The Tibetan practice of Tonglen is an ancient Vajrayana Tantra meditation that can transform and alchemize both our personal and collective grief and suffering by awakening the love and compassion that are inherent in all beings. A once-secret spiritual treasure, the Tonglen meditation is now a practice accessible to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a profound transformational and awakening process our world now urgently needs because it develops and cultivates love, kindness and compassion, both for ourselves and for others, and gradually reveals our blissful, essential nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Combining breath, awareness, and an energetic transformation process, this special meditation opens very rapidly our spiritual Heart, so we can blossom into who we truly are and share our unique gifts and presence with the entire world. It strengthens our love for ourselves, for those close to us, and for each and every living being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally, the complete Tonglen meditation has eight steps, but the practice is highly adaptable and can be easily reduced to its essential elements without losing at all its extraordinary beneficent power of transforming suffering into love, compassion, kindness, happiness. It is such an accessible and adaptable method to alchemize and transmute suffering \u2013 our own and others’ \u2013 that it can be done at almost any time: in solitude, in a couple, in a group of friends or even during one’s daily commute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the practice of Tonglen involves and cultivates all the \u2018perfections\u2019 known also in the Tibetan tradition as \u2018the practices of a Bodhisattva\u2019: selfless giving, high morality, exemplary patience, enthusiastic effort, perfect concentration, true wisdom etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonglen meditation addresses to all those who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n