Tonglen · The Tibetan practice of breathing in suffering, and breathing out relief, and the wider mind-training that grew around it.

When somebody is suffering, most cultures answer: distance yourself. Tibetan Buddhism answers: breathe them in. Tonglen, the practice of giving and taking through breath, is the most counterintuitive meditation in any tradition, and the most powerful. This page is its working bench, plus the wider Tibetan mind-training (Lojong, Maitri, the Four Immeasurables, Bardo) that grew around it.