Sogyal Rinpoche

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche... 

Deliberate meditation practices, done at times specially designated as meditation time rather than ordinary life, can also lead to a temporary lessening of the identification process. If you spend fifteen calm minutes just observing your breathing while sitting still, for example, you have fifteen minutes in which your mind has been filled with the simple, emotionally neutral experience of breathing, rather than the typical mental/emotional activities that reinforce false personality and its multitudinous identifications. In his lectures Sogyal Rinpoche emphasized... 

It would be wonderful if you could just decide I will be compassionate and open from now on, but, as you know, it isn t that easy. That is why Sogyal Rinpoche used the phrase courting compassion. You will have more luck if you try to gradually work your way up to being compassionate than if you try to get there all at once. 

Tong Len is a Tibetan practice Sogyal Rinpoche described for developing greater openness and compassion. It can be used as a way of... 

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