{"id":1357,"date":"2009-01-13T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2025-03-06T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T13:05:41","slug":"a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meditation To Help Transmute the Suffering Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/how-to-practice-tonglen\/\"> tonglen,<\/a> an ancient Buddhist meditation practice.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe into your heart, taking in all pain and suffering and incompleteness of human life.<br \/>\nOffer this breath up to God by breathing it up through your crown into the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe down the power which is beyond all suffering and take it into your heart.<br \/>\nAdd your own love and offer it out to the world as your gift.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in to your heart all unhappiness and suffering.<br \/>\nOffer it up to God.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in to your heart God\u2019s love.<br \/>\nOffer it out to the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Repeat as needed, daily or every moment of your life, forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionsroar.com\/how-to-practice-tonglen\/\">How To Practice Tonglen<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=A Meditation To Help Transmute the Suffering Of The World&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=A%20Meditation%20To%20Help%20Transmute%20the%20Suffering%20Of%20The%20World&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/a-meditation-to-help-transmute-the-suffering-of-the-world\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a variation on tonglen, an ancient Buddhist meditation practice. Breathe into your heart, taking in all pain and suffering and incompleteness of human life. Offer this breath up to God by breathing it up through your crown into the Universe. Breathe down the power which is beyond all suffering and take it into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47085,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/47085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}