The Song of the Earth
Searching for the pure land
Death & Dying
From the Academy: Relics
The proposed sale of the Buddha's relics raises questions that returning them has not settled.
Learning to Die Each Day
A Plum Village nun reflects on how remembering our mortality can help awaken us to the beauty of each moment.
The Vow Verse to Arouse Aspiration
Forgetting and not forgetting
Restoring Myself, Touching the Earth
Ten years after her mother’s death, a Plum Village monastic turns to nature to hold and transform her grief.
From the Academy: Death
How Buddhist traditions contemplate mortality, confront impermanence, and ritualize the final moment.
The Art of Talking
Psychologist Friedemann Schulz von Thun and scholar Bernhard Poerksen discuss death and the end of communication.
Rehearsing Death in Bangkok
Wrestling with thoughts about her parents’ mortality, a writer runs through her own life cycle at a particularly macabre Thai café.
The Zen Art of Caregiving
Sister Tue Nghiem discusses how the practice of presence helped her care for her mother in the final seven years of her life.
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