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

Comfort for the grieving

Venerable Chonyi examines some of the ways a friend can be of help when a…

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Helping the Dying and Deceased

A Buddhist approach to helping the dying

An interview covering the Buddhist perspective on death, helping others create good karma before death…

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Healing after a Suicide

Loss of a loved one to suicide

Response to a student's request for re-visiting a previous conference talk she gave on healing…

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Ven. Tsepal standing with group of retreatants.
Living with Impermanence

Mindfulness of death and impermanence

Maintaining an awareness of death and impermanence brings energy to making our life meaningful and…

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Prison Poetry

A suicide

An incarcerated person learns of his cousin's death.

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Healing after a Suicide

Finding hope after a loved one’s suicide

A moving letter and poem from an incarcerated person grieving his cousin's suicide.

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Healing after a Suicide

Supporting a suicidal person

More on how to support someone who is suicidal, in line with National Suicide Prevention…

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Healing after a Suicide

Suicide prevention awareness

Venerable Thubten Chodron shares resources in anticipation of suicide prevention day on September 10.

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Living with Impermanence

How to age happily

We will take the mental habits we cultivate now into our old age, so it…

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Retreatants with Venerable Chodron at the Phendeling Centre teaching.
Living with Impermanence

We need to remember that we are going to die

Do the practice and the results will come when they are ready. Julie Relsted of…

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Living with Impermanence

Practicing when having surgery

A monastic at Sravasti Abbey relies on her Dharma practice when facing surgery.

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