Good Medicine: How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen Meditation

Within Buddhism, there are many stories that refer to its founder as the “supreme physician” – a healer of all illness – mental, physical, and spiritual. The Buddha’s prescription for right living led directly to tonglen, a Tibetan meditation practice that is today the medicine our hearts have been searching for. American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön shares the gift of this simple and elegant meditation system: a way to befriend ourselves, accept the past we have rejected, and widen our circle of compassion. Includes interview excerpts and other enhancements available here for the first time.