The Buddha’s Death
A Zen reading of the Buddha’s last teaching
Death & Dying
Who Were the Hungry Ghosts, Really?
The evolving stories of pretas reveal much about Buddhist views of karma, cosmology, and grief.
The List
A Buddhist reality check
To Be or Not to Be
How do we live with this outrageous fortune?
Breaking Is a Part of Healing
How accepting death as part of the life cycle can help us cultivate greater peace and accountability
Personal Reflections Death & Dying
The Creative Enterprise of Being Human
Palliative care physician BJ Miller reflects on his own near-death experience and what we can learn from treating recovery as a creative act.
Embracing Contradiction among New York’s Forgotten Dead
A day in the life of Hart Island’s cemetery chaplain, Justin von Bujdoss
Walking with Jizo
Invoking the guardian deity of children and travelers in a time of great loss
The Wooden Puppet and the Iron Man
What two Zen archetypes of fearlessness can teach us about embodying compassion in the face of death and dying
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