Tsa Lung 2: Life-Force Wind Practice Instructions

• Sit in the five-point posture (or other comfortable sitting posture)

• Draw your attention to your body and connect with Stillness, Silence and
Spaciousness
• Perform the Nine Purification Breaths exercise

Upward-Moving Wind (reminder):

• Reflect on your life and select your conceptual karmic pain body and speech.
Connect with the pain, feeling it clearly.
• With a focus on your throat, inhale and imagine that your throat holds your breath
as a vase holds nectar.
• Without exhaling, inhale again, still keeping the focus on your throat.
• Feel the subtle energy of your breath move up the central channel to the crown
chakra as you rotate your head five times to the left (counterclockwise), and then
five time to the right (clockwise). Feel the subtle breath cleansing and nurturing
your sense organs and brain.
• Release your breath through the nostrils, slowly at first, and then exhaling more
sharply at the end, by pulling in the diaphragm. While exhaling your outer,
grosser breath, imagine the subtle breath shoots upward and out of your crown
chakra, removing all the obstacles and blockages from your throat and head area.
The obstacles and stagnant energy instantly dissolve into the space.
• Rest in the openness at the crown and throat chakras, abiding there as long as the
experience is fresh.

Life-Force Wind:

• Reflect on your life and select your conceptual karmic pain mind and its
imagination. Connect with the pain, feeling it clearly.
• Place your hands on or slightly below the hips. With a focus on your heart chakra,
inhale deeply and gently, holding your breath.
• Without exhaling, inhale again, still keeping the focus on your heart chakra.
• Feeling the subtle energy of your breath spread through your heart area, extend
your right arm to the side with fingers drawn together and perform a circling
motion with your arm over your head. While performing this lassoing motion,
extend and spread the fingers and then close them again with each circle. Do this
five times.
• Repeat the motion with the left arm.
• Continuing to hold your breath and maintaining your attention on your heart
chakra, with the hands back on either side of the hips (or below the hips), rotate
your right shoulder and upper torso in a circular motion five times and then your
left shoulder and upper torso in a circular motion five times.
• Come back to the center position and release the breath through the nostrils.
• With the exhalation, imagine that your heart area is releasing all negativity,
blockages and stagnant energy, which instantly dissolve into space.
• Rest in the open space at your heart chakra. Become familiar with the unique
space that is freer of anger, sadness, tension, or the extreme images or thoughts of
pain mind. Notice any sense of warmth that may arise, such as experiences of love
or joy. Abide in that space as long as the experience is fresh.
• You can repeat the exercise three, five or seven times. Remember to rest in the
open awareness for longer and longer periods of time, as your ability to do so
increases.

The Informal Practice:

Throughout your day, whenever you become conscious of any extreme images,
thoughts, or ideas that are associated with pain mind:

• Draw your clear, open attention to the heart chakra.

• Be aware of the spaciousness of your mind.
• Exhale deeply to release the negative energy. Imagine the subtle breath is
releasing from your heart chakra, removing all the obstacles and blockages from
your heart. The obstacles and stagnant energy instantly dissolve into the space.
• Rest in the openness at the heart chakra.

Maintain awareness of that unique space for at least 5 minutes, or as long as the
experience remains fresh.

Repeat the informal practice at least five to 10 times a day.

These practice instructions are for personal use in connection with this
GlideWing Productions online workshop with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.
Please do not distribute or otherwise share them with others.