Could It Be Helpful To Move Toward Suffering?: The Practice of Tonglen Chapter 19 Outshining Trauma

Most of our protective parts work so hard to get us to suppress, escape, deflect or numb pain and suffering, so why would they ever consider going TOWARD suffering?!!

The Buddhist practice of Tonglen teaches us how to bring suffering close and transform it into compassion. You might try proposing an experiment to your parts to try this exercise to see what happens.

In this video, I present chapter 19 of Outshining Trauma by Ralph De La Rosa. In it, I explain what Tonglen is and then lead you through an exercise to give compassionate withness to a place of pain in your body, a suffering part, and then to the whole world!

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