(Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=280)
This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death. Participants will explore our views of pain, suffering, mortality, and freedom from suffering; perspectives on our encounter with [...]
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(Apr 26, 2009 — May 03, 2009 and Oct 11, 2009 — Oct 18, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=184)
This revolutionary and practical training program for health care professionals gives essential tools for work with dying people and their families. Designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, the training covers core issues related to dying, death, and grieving; ethical issues [...]
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My topic today is the role that meditation can play in facing issues of pain, illness and death – not a pleasant topic, but an important one. Sadly, it’s only when people are face-to-face with a fatal illness that they start thinking about these issues, and often by that point it’s too late to get fully [...]
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Posted in Compassion, Death & Dying on Oct 19th, 2008
“He who attends on the sick attends on me,” declared the Buddha, exhorting his disciples on the importance of ministering to the sick. This famous statement was made by the Blessed One when he discovered a monk lying in his soiled robes, desperately ill with an acute attack of dysentery. With the help of Ananda, [...]
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Posted in Death & Dying, Hospice on Sep 22nd, 2008
Qual Health Res. 1998 Nov;8(6):801-12; McGrath P.
Centre for Public Health Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
The hospice vision of providing democratic and humane care of the dying needs to be operationalized in the “real world” of health care bureaucracies. It is at this interface between idealists and the demands of mainstream health care that [...]
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Posted in Death & Dying, Grief on Sep 22nd, 2008
Death Stud. 1997 Jul-Aug;21(4):377-95. Goss RE, Klass D.
Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
This article is a contribution to the cross-cultural study of grief. The Bardo-thodol (sometimes translated the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and the ritual associated with it provides a way to understand how Buddhism in Tibetan culture manages the issues associated with what [...]
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Posted in Death & Dying, Grief on Sep 22nd, 2008
Disabil Rehabil. 1997 Oct;19(10):442-51
Edwards M.
University Support Centre, University of Western Australia, Australia. medwards@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
The Zen Buddhist contemplative tradition involves several meditation and instructional techniques that have strong phenomenological and theoretical connections with the experience of loss and the process of grief. From experiences which occurred during personal encounters with individuals (three of whom had a disability) [...]
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Volume 366, Issue 9489, 10 September 2005-16 September 2005, Pages 952-955, by D. Keown
End of life: the Buddhist view
In many Asian cultures, Buddhism is acknowledged as the religion that has most to say about death and the afterlife. Buddhist teachings emphasise the ubiquity and inevitability of death, and for this reason, Buddhists tend to [...]
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by Anne Bruce
RN PhD
The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end-of-life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist [...]
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish.
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