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Tonglen Meditation & Compassion Practice

By Miles Neale — 2013

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Dr. Miles Neale guides a 'giving-and-taking' meditation (tonglen) from the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition designed to cultivate compassion and greater tolerance for interpersonal distress. See more...

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