The Practice of Refuge
Palliative care physician Sunita Puri discusses how she has found refuge in nature in the face of burnout and grief.
Death & Dying
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Seeking Refuge
Facing burnout, a palliative care physician finds solace in nature.
Insight Meditation Teacher Steve Armstrong Has Died
Armstrong cofounded a vipassana community in Hawaii and edited the English translation of Mahasi Sayadaw’s Manual of Insight.
Inside Every Ocean Hughes’s ‘One Big Bag’
The artist and death doula on queer death, end-of-life rituals, and how to not be afraid
Sun in a Sunless Place
A Buddhist scholar turns to Audre Lorde’s writings on embracing impermanence and living courageously in the face of death.
Remember Death
What 28 Years Later can teach us about the temporality of life
I See Dead People . . . or Maybe I Don’t
A Soto Zen priest on hungry ghosts, visitations, and the overlapping nature of the Bardo Thodol and the Shobogenzo
The Edge of Impermanence
The late unsui at the Treeleaf Zendo presents a timeless teaching on practicing in the midst of chronic illness and physical suffering.
Chinese Rituals of Death and the Afterlife
How the concept of karma made its way into Chinese culture
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