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Monday, February 20, 2012

Communing with the air element — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Here are some wise words from my teacher Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.

Go to a place where there is wind, perhaps a mountain pass or a beach. Or go where the air is cool and clean — in the shade of a forest or beside a river. Gentle your breathing. Feel the movement of air. Internalize it — the freedom of it, the quick intelligence of it. Feel the life moving in your flesh and in your thoughts, and the prana moving in the channels of the body. Recognize the air in the central channel, in the heart, in consciousness. The principal quality of air is flexibility; it is free.

— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, in Healing With Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen. Snow Lion Publications, 2002.