Sallie Tisdale

Sallie Tisdale is a lay dharma teacher at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon. Her most recent book, Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying, was published in 2018.

Magazine Society & Environment

Doulas at the Other End of Life

Caregivers are there when we’re born. Now they guide us through our final days.

By Sallie Tisdale | Photographs by Joshua Bright

Spring 2021

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Alone on the Bodhisattva Path

Palliative care nurse and writer Sallie Tisdale reflects on the compassionate vow to save all beings in a time of physical isolation.

By Sallie Tisdale

Apr 06, 2020

photo of a dog sitting in tall grass for story on buddhism and pet euthanasia

Magazine Personal Reflections

A Life in Her Hands

Without clear moral guidelines, the author struggles with her pet’s failing health.

By Sallie Tisdale

Spring 2020

Magazine Body & Mind

Travel Guide to the End of Life

An interview with Sallie Tisdale, death and dying educator

By Sallie Tisdale

Summer 2018

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

The Sutra of Maggots and Blowflies

How do we extend compassion to flies and other creatures who do not look like us?

By Sallie Tisdale

May 23, 2016

Magazine

On Dignity

What is “self-worth” in a system that denies the permanence of any self?

By Sallie Tisdale, Photography by Dorothea Lange

Summer 2016

Magazine

Self-Care for Future Corpses

“Namaste. You’re dead.” (Plus: 7 habits of highly effective Buddhists.)

By Sallie Tisdale

Winter 2015

Neeta Madahar, “Sustenance 104.” Courtesy Julie Saul Gallery, New York.

Magazine Personal Reflections

As If There Is Nothing to Lose

How giving comes from gratitude.

By Sallie Tisdale

Spring 2010

Magazine Body & Mind

Washing Out Emptiness

In our own impermanent bodies, we face our deepest fears and aversions. Drawing on Dogen’s writings and her personal experience as a nurse, Sallie Tisdale challenges us not to look away, but to practice in this most intimate realm.

By Sallie Tisdale

Fall 2007

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How to Be in the Body (Without Jumping Out of Your Skin)

We focus on quieting the mind so much that we can forget how meditation is an embodied experience.

By Scott Tusa

Mar 03, 2021

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The Buddhist Review

Visiting Teacher: Guo Gu

A Q&A with Guo Gu, founder of and teacher at the Tallahassee Chan Center and Sheng Yen Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism at Florida State University

By The Editors

Spring 2021

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Meditation Month 2021: Silent Illumination

Meditation Month is back! Join us for our annual challenge to commit to a daily meditation practice throughout the month of March. This year, our Meditation Month teacher Guo Gu will guide us through the Chan (Zen) practice of silent illumination, which reveals our innate capacity for awakening.

Guo Gu

Mar 2021

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