Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Lost at Sea
Burying the grief that followed her family's drowning in the Bermuda Triangle didn't work. But using meditation to face it did.
Grief and Loss
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Columns, Openings
Is Silent Retreat Good for Everyone?
Extended contemplative practice can activate buried trauma.
Why Grief Is A Series of Contractions and Expansions
A Zen priest and bereavement educator explains the importance of sticking with our pain and other difficult emotions so we can come out on the other side.
Washing My Boy’s Body
When a hospice counselor is called to the bedside of a child who has just died, he leads the parents through a Buddhist ritual for cleaning the body. In the process, he guides them through the…
Sea of Sorrow
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, a psychologist who volunteered to help survivors in Thailand recalls her staggering confrontation with death and considers how a Buddhist country coped with the…
Turning Madness into Flowers
A poem on the grief that brings us home
Don’t They Know?
Poet Mark Doty reflects on loss, grief, and attention
MeditationMagazine | Special Section
Practicing With Loss
Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Special Section
A Splinter of Love
Are grief and mourning the most precious proofs of love?
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