Living with Impermanence

Applying the Dharma when faced with our own and others' experience of aging, sickness, and death.

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Dealing with Grief

Tools for working through the grieving process when we experience unexpected and unwanted changes.

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Healing after a Suicide

Support for recovering from a loved one’s suicide and transforming grief.

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Helping the Dying and Deceased

Preparing for our own death, and what prayers and practices we can do to help others through the dying process.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Teachings from multi-year weekend retreats on how to prepare for the time of death led by Venerable Sangye Khadro.

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Death and Caring for the Dying Retreat (2010)

Teachings given during the Death and Caring for the Dying Retreat at Sravasti Abbey in 2010.

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Living with Impermanence

To Geshela with appreciation

I have been thinking a lot about Geshela and I wanted to share some of…

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Dealing with Grief

Transforming problems into the path

Whether grief can be seen as an affliction, the four distorted conceptions, and how to…

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Living with Impermanence

A matter of life and death

How being mindful of death in our daily life can help us and how to…

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Dealing with Grief

Stages of grief

A teaching on the seven stages of grief with a meditation.

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Dealing with Grief

Five remembrances

An introduction to the topic of grief and the five remembrances.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

What helps at the time of death

The last three points of the nine-point death meditation and how to prepare for death.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Practices for preparing for death

A brief introduction to preparatory practices for death, including 7-point mind training (lojong) and taking…

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