Personal Reflections Death & Dying
A Life Cut Short but Lived Well
A Pure Land priest reflects on the life and death of her friend Michael Dunn, a compassionate climate activist
Death & Dying
What a Visit to a Cadaver Lab Taught Me About Death Contemplation
A Buddhist chaplain-in-training practices maranasati, or death awareness.
Grief Is an Ancestor
What we learn about love when we turn toward grief
Working with the Five Remembrances
What do you want to carry with you when you go?
Personal Reflections Death & Dying
Burning Among Stars in the Night
In the wake of losing his father, a writer explores pain as a portal
How to Handle Grief When Equanimity Isn’t Enough
Our path isn’t about escaping this world, it’s about becoming more intimate with it.
Honoring the Water Children
In a recent Life As It Is episode, writer and interfaith minister Barbara Becker shares how she found healing and community after her miscarriages.
Aging Is Reality
Although I studied Buddhism as a young man, it wasn’t until I reached the later years of my life that I truly understood the Buddha’s first encounters with old age, sickness, and death.
What Happens If We Recognize the Love Inside of Grief?
Accepting grief as a way to honor loss can help us open into a more intimate and heartfelt union with life itself.
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