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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Transforming problems into the path
Whether grief can be seen as an affliction, the four distorted conceptions, and how to…
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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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Advice for a non-Buddhist friend
Venerable Thubten Chodron offers advice on preparing for death.
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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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A real awareness of death
Teachings on the first six points of the nine-point death meditation.
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Buddhist perspectives on death
What the Buddha taught about death and the benefits of meditating on it.
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Understanding Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s passing and...
How to stay connected with a spiritual teacher after their passing.
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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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Spiritually preparing for death
A third guided meditation on death, touching on unhelpful attitudes towards death.
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