Tonglen - Exchanging Self and Other - Intersubjectivity

**Dear friends**, looking for parallels between the practice of Tonglen , and the Husserlian notion of Intersubjectivity , I have come upon this research paper by Natalie Depraz, Phd. Quoting from the abstract : > It is well-known that Husserl’s analysis of intersubjectivity is > primarily based on empathy. Now, such an experience of empathy is > described in Husserl as involving the peculiar spatiality of our lived > body, a temporal pairing of both lived bodies and a specific > imaginative transfer of one’s psychic states into those of the other. > I would like to confront such a multilayered experience of the other > with the way some Buddhist teachings (which first appeared in India > and were then transmitted to Tibet) present the experience of > compassion within what is called the Mahayana tradition. Indeed, the > “tonglen” praxis (as Tibetans call it), which is described very > concretely in such a framework, echoes in many ways the Husserlian > empathetic experience as far as the bodily rooting, the synchronizing > timing are concerned and above all as far as the way imagination is > taken into account. By comparing both praxis and analysis with regard > to lived space, time and imagination, we will be able to evaluate > their affinities, their differences and finally how they may enlight > and even generate each other. I would welcome with the utmost gratitude your enlightening comments, and reference to relevant material. **Thank you** for having taken the time and effort to read this.