Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
I Can Only Imagine
Adapted from Smile: The Story of a Face
Illness
Reading with the End in Mind
A professor of Buddhist narrative learns to live with her cancer diagnosis by connecting with Buddhist stories.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Will I Get More Time This Time?
A Buddhist teacher and cancer survivor is hospitalized during the pandemic.
Disease Is Inevitable. Compassion Is a Choice.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, a practitioner visiting China reflects on how panic spreads and what we can do to open our hearts again.
‘My Consciousness Can Now Prepare for Death’
In this interview from 2000, Ram Dass discusses entering the final chapter of his life and how his sudden illness was a "stroke of luck."
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Meeting the Friend She Always Knew
The goddess of compassion intervenes in the life of a longtime practitioner when her help is most needed.
Health Care for All Beings
Like calling upon the Buddha, the dharma, and the sangha for spiritual support, universal health care would create a basis of material and emotional support from which citizens could solve other pressing personal and social problems.
How to Practice with the Common Cold
Two meditation teachers weigh in on the benefits of returning to the breath as you’re resting and hydrating.
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Dying while Alive
A memoirist documents her final months.
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