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136 – Grief in Buddhism 2: Some Buddhist Practices Helpful for Facing and Integrating Grief
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136 – Grief in Buddhism 2: Some Buddhist Practices Helpful for Facing and Integrating Grief
…of Grief Tapping into Our Grief Reservoir Letting Go of Attachments Grief as the Fifth Sublime Social Attitude, or Brahmavihara? This is my second episode on the topic “grief…
135 – Grief in Buddhism 1: Buddhist Teachings on Grief and the Danger of Spiritual Bypassing
…the other Brahmaviharas Read/listen to Grief in Buddhism Part 2 Endnotes [i] https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/ [ii] Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07P5GCND6/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_6-0TEb8MVG9Y7 [iii] Climate Grief: Is It Real? Solastalgia…
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…“Their behavior proves these teachers were never enlightened.” The second pair of episodes I want to point out is Episode 135 – Grief in Buddhism 1: Buddhist Teachings on Grief and…
201 – Story of My Spiritual Journey Part 5: Finding What I Was Looking For
…much needed to be done? I carried my grief and guilt around with me at all times, like a heavy stone, so I wouldn’t get too carried away by pleasure…
135 – El Duelo en el Budismo 1: Enseñanzas Budistas sobre el Duelo y el Peligro del Bypass Espiritual
…mismos, al igual que sentir a los demás Brahmaviharas. Referencias [I] https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/ [II] Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B07P5GCND6/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_6-0TEb8MVG9Y7 [III] Climate Grief: Is It Real? Solastalgia and…
145 – No Matter What Happens to You, You Have Choice in the Matter
…the raging current, he was carried off to his death. “Overwhelmed with grief, Patacara returned to her parents’ home, only to learn that it had burned down from a…
331 – When Confronted with Great Difficulties: Zhaozhou’s “Just Right”
…destroyed by them, letting our hearts break without rejecting this world or becoming consumed by anger or grief. Practicing the Dharma in a World Full of Great Difficulties…
197 – Neither Avoidance nor Identification: Being with the Reality of Painful Situations
…you while Bearing Witness, or may still be arising: Sadness, heartbreak, grief, overwhelm, despair… perhaps your mind flinching from truly imagining yourself in the place of the people of Ukraine……
161 – The Parinirvana Ceremony and the Teaching of the Buddha’s Dying and Death
…All forms of existence join in the grief of this day, and wholeheartedly recite with us these scriptures. We are filled with awe at the countless voices and boundless light…
160 – Bearing Witness without Burning Out
…want to experience greater intimacy. Sometimes, ironically, we gain a sense of peace from Bearing Witness because we’re not running from the truth. We may feel grief and distress, but…
114 – Why Your (Real) Happiness Benefits Others
…or in the greater world – we have the potential to let go of our resistance, grief, or anger, and feel more relaxed, at ease, grateful, and enthusiastic. In this…
295 – The Power of Equanimity
…(Brahmaviharas), one of the seven factors of awakening,[i] and one of the ten perfections (paramitas).[ii] Successful contemplative practice is described by the Buddha as “having overcome covetousness and grief concerning…
238 – Eco-Anxiety and Buddhism – Part 2
…world around us – without falling apart. It’s not easy. Sometimes it’s very painful. Sometimes our hearts will break. But we’ll also find out that powerful emotions like pain, grief,…
208 – Nine Benefits of Buddhist Practice in Difficult Times
…with difficulty – such as pain, injustice, poverty, violence, or loss – our honest emotional responses are probably going to be grief, fear, anger, or despair. By “honest” I mean…
192 – The Eight Worldly Winds: Gain, Loss, Status, Disgrace, Praise, Censure, Pleasure, Pain
…and we gain happiness from them. We fear their loss, subtly or acutely, and experience grief, trauma, and/or stress when we lose them. Status & disgrace… Our status may be…
180 – The Dharma of Staying Calm When Facing Challenges
…to ourselves, our loved ones, or other beings, we also avoid intimacy. Grief is love when it meets loss; if we cut off our grief, we have to also cut…
177 – Unconditional Strength and Gratitude: The Medicine of Suchness
…natural fear and grief. What does that feeling inspire you to do? Probably not get philosophical about how a billion years from now earth might be brimming with a whole…
136 – El Duelo en el Budismo 2: Algunas Prácticas Budistas Útiles para Enfrentar e Integrar el Duelo
…podemos hacer además de enfrentarnos a la realidad. En su libro Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief, David Kessler también describe una etapa de duelo en seis etapas, “encontrar…
166 – The Wesak Ceremony: Celebrating and Expressing Gratitude for Our Teachers
…access our emotions. We have ceremonies in our cultures; for example, we have weddings, and we have funerals. Memorials such as funerals are meant to process grief. At funerals in…
151 – The Emptiness of Self and Why It Matters
…great grief and despair about it There’s a certain utility to these stories. They are my mind making sense of my experience, and putting it in terms I can express…
