檢視 Tonglen 的原始碼

[[Image:Shantideva.JPG|frame|[[Shantideva]]]]
'''Tonglen''' (Tib. གཏོང་ལེན་, [[Wyl.]] ''gtong len'') is the practice of 'giving' or 'sending' (''tong'') happiness and wellbeing and 'receiving' or 'taking' (''len'') pain and suffering.<ref>According to [[Alak Zenkar Rinpoche]] it is more accurate to call this practice ''dé duk tonglen'', meaning ‘giving happiness and receiving suffering’</ref> It is part of the instructions on 'mind training' (Tib. [[lojong]]) brought to Tibet by Lord [[Atisha]], and is specifically related to [[relative bodhichitta]].

Put very simply, the tonglen practice of giving and receiving is to take on the suffering and pain of others, and give them your happiness, well-being, and peace of mind. Tonglen uses the medium of the breath. As [[Chekawa Yeshe Dorje|Geshe Chekhawa]] wrote: “Giving and receiving should be practiced alternately. This alternation should be placed on the medium of the breath.”

[[Dalai Lama|His Holiness the Dalai Lama]] says <ref>His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama: "Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries", page 97. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, Dharamsala, India, 2005.</ref>:

:To be able actually to transfer one's happiness to others and directly take their sufferings upon oneself is something only possible on very, very few occasions; it occurs when both oneself and another individual have a very special type of relationship based on karmic affinity, stemming perhaps from a previous life. Why does one cultivate this attitude? Because it leads to attaining great strength of character, courage and enthusiasm; and improves one's own practice of developing [[bodhichitta]].

[[Sogyal Rinpoche]] says:
:Of all the practices I know, the practice of tonglen is one of the most useful and powerful. No other practice I know is as effective in destroying the [[self-grasping]], self-cherishing, self-absorption of the ego, which is the root of all our suffering and the root of all hard-heartedness.

==Sources==
Tonglen is referred to in many Indian and Tibetan sources such as [[Shantideva]]'s ''[[Bodhicharyavatara]]'',  the ''[[Seven Points of Mind Training]]'' composed by [[Chekawa Yeshe Dorje|Geshe Chekhawa]], [[Langri Thangpa]]'s ''[[Eight Verses of Training the Mind]]'', the ''[[Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas]]'', the ''[[Lam Rim]]'' and in [[Longchenpa]]’s ''Mind in Comfort and Ease''.  There are also special instructions which have been passed down in the oral tradition.

== Notes ==
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==Further Reading==
*[[Pema Chödrön]], 
**''When Things Fall Apart'' (Boston: Shambhala, 1997), Chapter 15 'Going Against the Grain'
**''Tonglen, the Path of Transformation'' (Vajradhatu Publications, 2001)
**''The Places that Scare You'' (Boston: Shambhala, 2001), Chapter 9 'Tonglen'
**''Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change'' (Boston: Shambhala, 2012), Chapter 7 'Breathing In Pain, Breathing Out Relief'
**''The Wisdom of No Escape'' (Boston: Shambhala, 2012), Chapter 12 'Sending and Taking'
*[[Sogyal Rinpoche]], ''[[The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying]]'', HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1992, Chapter 12
*''Arousing Bodhichitta, The Heart of the Enlightened Mind—The Bodhichitta Mengak Study Pack'' (Lodève: The Tertön Sogyal Trust, 2008), pages 132-149. 

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