Metta and Tonglen meditation in connection with the Green Tara practice & Mindfulness Matinée

The two topics can also be attended separately (please indicate in the registration form under “notes” if only one topic is to be booked).

1. Topic

3. and 4.10.2025 (Friday, 16.00 - 20.00 and Saturday, 10.00 - 18.00)

Metta and Tonglen meditation in connection with the Green Tara practice 

On this weekend we will experience an introduction and guidance in the metta heart warmth and tonglen compassion meditation.

These forms of meditation are guided here on the basis of mindfulness of the body, breath, sensations and mind. While metta meditation can help us to rediscover and develop our inherent powers of kindness, benevolence and a “mind-liberating” love, a compassion practice means that we relate the metta quality to states of experiencing sadness, encountering the undesirable, etc., both that of others and our own. To do this, we practise Tonglen, the meditation of accepting and sending out combined with the breath from the Lodjong mind training tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also called “Tonglen heart breathing”.

As a “heart power source” we will visualize the Green Tara, a female Buddha aspect that represents compassion and fearlessness. A short Green Tara practice text will be used for this.

Yesche U. Regel has published two books (in German) based on his more than 30 years of teaching experience in these forms of meditation, in which he describes a 5-step practice for tonglen meditation, which also includes mindfulness and metta meditations:

- “Mitgefühl für sich, andere und die Welt” (Nymphenburger 2016)
- “Selbstmitgefühl durch Tonglen" (Nymphenburger 2020)

In it, the teachings that Yesche received from Tibetan lamas are processed and combined with inspirations from encounters with Thich Nhat Hanh and focusing therapy.

2. Topic

October 5, 2025 (Sunday, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm)

Mindfulness Matinée With Meditation, Talk and Exchange on the Roots of Mindfulness in Buddhism

This morning we will refer to the Satipattha Sutta, the discourse on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, which the historical Buddha taught as the basis of all meditation practice. Even today, after more than 2,500 years, it is still regarded as a simple and easy-to-understand framework for thousands of meditators and for understanding the meaning and significance of the Buddhist path. At the same time, it is free of beliefs and can therefore also serve as a practical, body-related and at the same time psychologically meaningful method for self-exploration and overcoming the “shackles” of “self-created” suffering through habitual patterns of identification and the lack of ability for direct, immediate experience.

Mindfulness meditation, understood in this way, is also the basis of contemporary “mindfulness-based” methods such as MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) and other exercise programs. Here it has an almost therapeutic and healing effect.

Meditation instructions, talks and sharing form a self-contained unit in the 3 hours on this Sunday. However, this can also be perceived as a continuation of the meditation course from Friday and Saturday before, as these meditations also build on mindfulness meditation.
 
On-Site only
Course Language: German
Course Fees: on donation basis 
Optional accommodation & meals, see registration form for prices

 About Yesche U. Regel