Living with Impermanence

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

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Helping the Dying and Deceased

End-of-life care

How can we approach the difficult process of making end-of-life care decisions regarding loved ones?

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Venerable Thubten Chodron goes on a walk with a cane after recovering from hip surgery.
Living with Impermanence

Surgery with bodhicitta

Venerable Chodron talks about how she prepared for her recent surgery.

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Dealing with Grief

Meditation for parents grieving the loss of a child

A guided meditation for those who are grieving the death of a child. The meditation…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The eight stages of the death process

Explaining the eight stages of the death process, speaking on how to help people who…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

How to prepare for death

Teaching on how to prepare ourselves for death, on the five powers, and answering questions…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

The uncertainty of the time of death

Leading a guided meditation on the second three points in the 9-point death meditation on…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Meditation on the inevitability of death

A guided meditation on the first three points in the nine-point meditation on death focusing…

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