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The Nine Contemplations of Atisha – Four
Atisha with Twenty-eight of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Your life span, like that of all living beings, is not fixed I find what our assumptions are about death fascinating....
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Introduction to the Five Precepts: Attention, Attention
“You cannot go into the room where someone is dying and not pay attention. Everything is pulling you into the moment.” ~~ Frank Ostaseki In 1987, Frank Ostaseski helped form the Zen Hospice Project,...
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Five Precepts: “Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing”
The other night I started a blog about the work of Frank Ostaseski who co-founded Zen Hospice Project and founded Metta Institute. Over the next few nights, I will be writing about each of the 5...
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Five Precepts: “Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience”
Have you started at the beginning? Have you read my first two posts on the 5 precepts of being a compassionate companion? If you haven’t seen the my introduction or the First precept, please click...
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Five Precepts: “Don’t Wait.”
In 1987, Frank Ostaseski helped form the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice in America. In 2004, he created Metta Institute to broaden this work and seed the culture with innovative...
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Five Precepts: “Find a place of rest in the middle of things”
The 4th precept of being a compassionate companion is: Find a place of rest in the middle of things. These 5 precepts are taught by Frank Ostaseski, co-founder of Zen Hospice Project and founder of...
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Five Precepts: “Cultivate Don’t Know Mind”
Have you started at the beginning? Have you read any of my other posts on the 5 precepts of being a compassionate companion? If you haven’t seen the my introduction, take a few minutes to read about...
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I’d love to tell you. . .
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” Rumi I would SO love to tell you, “Yeah, don’t grieve. It’s not spiritually necessary or enlightened. We are transcendent beings....
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The Nine Contemplations of Atisha – Six
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Your body is fragile and vulnerable. The Sixth of the Nine Contemplations of Atisha. . . your body is fragile and vulnerable. Think about how easily we can be overcome by...
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Our Suffering
The subtle suffering in our lives may seem unimportant. But if we attend to the small ways that we suffer, we create a context of greater ease, peace, and responsibility, which can make it easier to...
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The Nine Contemplations of Atisha – Three
Death will come whether you are prepared or not. Take heed. Death waits for no one. There is no time to say, wait, I need to add more lipstick and fix my hair. There is not usually time for you to...
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Good to be back
the clouds are lifting Wow, I feel like I haven’t been fully present for a while. Since my wonderful trip to NM, I’ve had a respiratory infection and a 10-day migraine so that’s what I’ve been up to...
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What is Death?
Light and shade (Photo credit: Ennor) “Death is the omega of our existence, the vanishing point toward which all our moments rush. Death is the price exacted by life — which always, without exception,...
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The Mystery of Living and Dying.
By Doug Smith, MDiv. “When we label some deaths right, and other deaths become wrong. When we label some deaths good, and other deaths become bad. Living and dying create each other. The easy way...
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