Thread by @RobbSmith

1/ Probably a good night for a practice to turn fear and darkness into love and compassion. My version of Tonglen.

Close your eyes and take several deep breaths. Allow the stillness of a clear mind and open heart to overtake you; this is who you really are.

2/ Start to picture, and feel, your heart inside your chest as a burning, bright-as-the-sun light inside you. Raging love and compassion, this power inside you is able to transmute anything in this universe into light.

3/ Now turn your attention outwards to a world suffering.

Sick people.
Poor and hungry people.
Rioting people.
Oppressed & terrorized people.

Fear, pain and terror running deep, in your city and around the world.

4/ Now, with every in-breath, picture inhaling a dark cloud of pain & suffering from all those people, taking the burden off them, bringing it inside you. Into your heart, where it stands no chance of remaining dark.

As you do this, feel compassion and love well up inside you.

5/ Now watch as the bright-as-the-sun light inside you doesn't waver, instead instantly turning every ounce of darkness, fear and suffering you bring inside into a bright, loving compassion that you now exhale and breathe out into the world.

6/ Into a world getting brighter with your every breath.

Do this as long as you need to, 10 seconds, 10 minutes makes no difference.

Allow this practice to carry you through every interaction, every thought, every tweet, every word, every vote, every action.

7/ Love has no opposite.

By transforming yourself, you transform the world. You meet the demand for love, justice and order in the only way that is truly enduring.