Stages of the Path: Death and Impermanence (2009)
Short talks on death and impermanence based on the Guru Puja text by the first Panchen Lama Lobsang Chokyi Gyaltsen.
Meditating on death and impermanence
Venerable Thubten Chodron The importance of the meditation on death and impermanence, how it helps us to re-prioritize our lives and consider what is most meaningful.
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Death is definite
Beginning to discuss the nine-point death meditation. How thinking about death is important and how it helps us to set our priorities.
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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, that we cannot choose when we will die.
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Death time and possessions
Considering how our possessions will not be of help at the time of death, that we cannot take them with us.
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Death time and relationships
Considering the people in our lives, the karma we create in relationship with them, and how to cultivate a healthy relationship with those we love.
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Death time and our body
The importance of cultivating a healthy relationship with our body.
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Death and refuge
How contemplating death and impermanence can lead us to taking refuge in the Three Jewels.
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Unfortunate rebirths
How Buddhist teachings on lower realms differ from theistic religions, and the importance of creating the causes for the results we want to have.
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