death

Teachings on death from a Buddhist perspective, including preparing for death, dying peacefully, and helping the dying.

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On Taking Illness Onto the Path

A wake-up call

A newly-diagnosed health problem brings a practitioner face to face with the reality of impermanence.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Birth, aging, sickness, and d...

How to reflect on the dukkha of birth, aging, sickness and death to generate the…

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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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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: The importance of remembering...

A review of the drawbacks of not remembering death and the benefits of remembering death.…

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On Impermanence

Reflections on rebirth

Grappling with the concept of rebirth in our Western culture.

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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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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Two meditations on death

Using the nine-point death meditation and imagining our own death to help us lead a…

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Essence of a Human Life

Putting the Dharma into practice

The importance of integrating the Dharma into everyday life, in whatever situations we encounter.

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Essence of a Human Life

Relying on the Dharma

How the Dharma is our only source of refuge at the time of death.

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