death

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

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Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The person and the aggregates

If the person cannot be found in the aggregates, does it exist separate from the…

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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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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Guided nine-point death meditation

Meditating on death brings meaning and purpose to our life and helps to avoid wasting…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Guided meditation: imagining our death

Imagining our death prepares our mind for death and helps us make our life meaningful…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Guided meditation on death and impermanence

Seeing that death is definite and lifespan uncertain reflecting on the eight worldly concerns can…

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Mindfulness

Advice for Dharma practice

A question and answer session covering topics such as social conformity, guilt and regret, dealing…

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Silhouette of person and bird flying against bright pink sunset.
Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds

Counteracting laziness

The different types of laziness and how to counteract them, and the importance of remembering…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 5: Verses 101-102

A reflection on the determination to be free of suffering: what role mindfulness of death…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Nine-point death meditation

Meditating on death to make life more meaningful and the two meditations to use: the…

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

The importance of remembering death

The purpose of remembering death is to help make life meaningful and motivate practice not…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 32: The master executioner

Death is definite. It is important to practice virtue and avoid non-virtue while we still…

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Gems of Wisdom

Verse 31: The invisible disease

Our refusal to acknowledge and accept the process of aging and sickness is a cause…

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