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 our body
The importance of cultivating a healthy relationship with our body.
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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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Death time and possessions
Considering how our possessions will not be of help at the time of death, that…
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The time of death is indefinite
A continuation of the nine-point death meditation, considering how our time of death is indefinite,…
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Death is definite
Beginning to discuss the nine-point death meditation. How thinking about death is important and how…
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Meditating on death and impermanence
The importance of the meditation on death and impermanence, how it helps us to re-prioritize…
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Review: Death and impermanence
Review session on the second of the four preliminary practices, the impermanence of all things…
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Disadvantages of miserliness
The disadvantages of miserliness and how to work through miserliness to develop generosity.
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Developing bodhicitta
Equalizing and exchanging self and others and an explanation of the first six points of…
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Verse 32-5: Who is sick?
Working with illness and pain by considering who is the "I" who is experiencing the…
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Cultivating conventional bodhicitta
Introduction to the section of the text that explains how to cultivate the conventional awakening…
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