Living with Impermanence

Applying the Dharma when faced with our own and others' experience of aging, sickness, and 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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Elderly woman picking tomatoes from garden.
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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Medical professionals performing surgery.
Living with Impermanence

Practicing when having surgery

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

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Man standing on dock of lake.
Dealing with Grief

Living with loss

Change is the reality of our existence but we are shocked when it happens. Examining…

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Dealing with Grief

The death of a child

Ways to work with the mind in pain when a loved one is here one…

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Dealing with Grief

Dealing with grief and loss

Fresh perspectives on how to work with changes that we do not welcome.

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Helping the Dying and Deceased

Practices for the deceased

Practices we can do to benefit those who have recently passed into the bardo so…

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Helping the Dying and Deceased

Helping a dying friend

How we can work with our mind, and what prayers and practices we can do…

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