Rev. Danny Fisher

This from Shambhala Sun Space:

Just after 6pm EST this evening, we received news of the earthquake in Haiti by way of a friend in the Shambhala community, who in her email suggested that it might be a fine thing to say prayers for Haiti, and to do tonglen practice, which, as Rosalind Harris so succinctly explained it in her piece Jamil’s Heart, is “the practice of taking into our hearts the suffering of ourselves and others and of sending out compassion.”

In the following, extracted from a Shambhala Sun article by Judy Lief, you’ll learn how to do tonglen, and why it’s good medicine for a world where suffering is all too often the top story. Certainly, that’s the case for Haiti this evening, as, sadly, it’s so often been.

Read the rest here.