“Mind, no mind, mind is luminous.” Buddha Shakyamuni

We are still working with foreground/background as a technique to enter “no mind”, and some of its many meanings. Tonglen, which means “taking and giving”, considers what is in one’s experience of the moment or calls something  positive or conducive forward in one’s mind. From that, one contemplates one’s good fortune which encourages heartfelt consideration of those who, in this moment, are less fortunate. One, then, breathes in the hardship of others and breathes out their needs being met.

One breathes in as the vast embrace of compassion, not as one’s self. One breathes out from the vast potential of compassion that one is.