Practicing Tonglen for Lung

Practicing Tonglen for Lung

Date Posted:
February 2006

A monk who had very severe lung wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice. Rinpoche wrote this card to him.

My very dear one,
I hope you are better. Please use the experience to achieve enlightenment quickly by using it to develop bodhicitta and compassion for other mother sentient beings and, as you have been doing, by practicing tonglen. Sometimes you can think, "This is the guru-buddha’s blessing to purify me." Sometimes use it to meditate on emptiness.

With much love and prayers...