Taking and giving: instruction and guided meditation
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Cultivating the Four Immeasurables 
Oct 4, 2002 Introduction
- Benefits of the taking and giving meditation (tonglen)
- Equanimity and kindness
- Disadvantages of selfishness
- Exchanging self and others
Taking and Giving 01: Basis (download)
Reasons for the practice
- Purpose and benefits
- Overcoming resistance in taking on suffering
- Steps and visualizations
Taking and Giving 02: Explanation (download)
Questions and answers
- When to expand from yourself to others
- How to generate compassion
- How to apply the taking and giving practice daily
Taking and Giving 03: Q&A (download)
Guided meditation
- Taking refuge recitation
- Being guided to oneself
- Expanding to others
Taking and Giving: Guided meditation(download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
