Taking & Giving Meditation (14 mins)

Taking and Giving Meditation reverses our usual logic of avoiding suffering and seeking pleasure. We visualize taking in the pain of others with every in-breath and sending out whatever will benefit them on the out-breath. In the process, we become liberated from age-old patterns of self-centeredness. We begin to feel love for both ourselves and others; we begin to take care of ourselves and others.

Taking and Giving Meditation awakens our compassion and introduces us to a far bigger view of reality. It introduces us to the unlimited spaciousness of openness. By doing the practice, we begin to connect with the open dimension of our being.