The Healing Power of Loving-Kindness
Sat December 18th: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
All happiness in the world
Comes from wishing happiness for others.
All suffering in the world
Comes from the desire to have happiness only for oneself.
- Shantideva
Loving-kindness is the thought of wishing total happiness for others and putting that wish into practice. It is the thought of unconditioned, pure, and universal love towards all beings without attachment, self-centeredness, or expectation of rewards. Our mind has the power to generate love or hatred, inspire helpful or harmful actions, and enjoy joyful or painful experiences. Our mind has the power to ease all our pain and stress and to enjoy peace and happiness simply by loosening its tight grasping at mental objects.
The true nature of our mind is inherently peaceful and joyful. Once our mind is filled with love, whatever we say or do will be the expression of loving kindness. We will become a source of peace, joy and love for others. However, our mind is highly impressionable. We become what we see and think. If we meditate on the Buddha of Loving-Kindness, we turn into a person of Loving-Kindness.
In this workshop, we first visualize and pray to the Buddha of Loving-Kindness and Compassion (Avalokitesvara) and enjoy his blessing light of loving-kindness. As a result, thoughts and feelings of pure loving kindness - the pure qualities of our own mind - will be awakened in the depths of our heart. Then our mental, emotional, and physical energies spontaneously start blazing forth as the energy of pure love. Finally, whatever we see, hear, and feel will turn into the images, sounds, and experiences of unconditional love. Then our lives will become joyful lives of true loving-kindness - the source of peace and joy for many.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in Tibet and trained at the Dodrupchen Monastery. He moved to India in 1958 and came to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His many books on Tibetan Buddhism include The Healing Power of Loving Kindness, Boundless Healing, The Healing Power of Mind, Masters of Meditation and Miracles and Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth. Tulku Thondup teaches throughout the United States and Europe.
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