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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Wholesome Fear with Venerable Sangye Khadro (Spain 2024)

A weekend course on how Buddhist teachings can help us work with our fear of death and loss, taught at Centro Nagarjuna Madrid in Spain, May 2024.

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All Posts in Living with Impermanence

Teachings

The continuity of consciousness

Exploring the continuity of consciousness in regards to karma and impermanence.

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Preparing for death

The importance of end-of-life planning and how to work with death in a way that…

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Karma and rebirth

Exploring karma, rebirth, and the way that causes and conditions influence our lives.

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Mind, consciousness, and AI

Exploring the differing causes of body and mind and issues related to artificial intelligence.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Death and purification

The four powers of purification and the importance of purification now and at the time…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The process of death

Exploring the eight stages of death and how this knowledge can benefit us.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Preparing for death

Specific strategies we can employ to prepare for death now and why this is important.

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The time of death is uncertain

Understanding that the timing of death is uncertain helps us make the most of our…

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