death
Teachings on death from a Buddhist perspective, including preparing for death, dying peacefully, and helping the dying.
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Death time and relationships
Considering the people in our lives, the karma we create in relationship with them, and…
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Considering how our possessions will not be of help at the time of death, that…
View PostThe time of death is indefinite
A continuation of the nine-point death meditation, considering how our time of death is indefinite,…
View PostDeath is definite
Beginning to discuss the nine-point death meditation. How thinking about death is important and how…
View PostMeditating on death and impermanence
The importance of the meditation on death and impermanence, how it helps us to re-prioritize…
View PostReview: Death and impermanence
Review session on the second of the four preliminary practices, the impermanence of all things…
View PostDisadvantages of miserliness
The disadvantages of miserliness and how to work through miserliness to develop generosity.
View PostDeveloping bodhicitta
Equalizing and exchanging self and others and an explanation of the first six points of…
View PostVerse 32-5: Who is sick?
Working with illness and pain by considering who is the "I" who is experiencing the…
View PostCultivating conventional bodhicitta
Introduction to the section of the text that explains how to cultivate the conventional awakening…
View PostResources for fearful scenarios
We do have to think of the future in a reasonable way. Thought training helps…
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