Death and illness within our own family inspired me to create this new workshop, based on concepts and techniques from one of my favorite books, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. I found the western approach to death- grief and devastation- to be utterly useless and tiring. This workshop is very different, because the entire approach is different. Drawing from Buddhist thought, though appropriate for people from any religious tradition, we'll learn practical ways for becoming comfortable with uncertainty, stress, impermanence and death.
The reality of impermanence means that everything in our lives is unique and special, and the more we understand impermanence and make it a part of our experience, the more meaning we will have in our lives.
None of us can know how much time we have, so now is the time to get OK with that. Becoming OK with it takes more than the knowledge of impermanence, we have to "soak it in" and make it a part of our whole experience, a part of all our perceptions. Then our lives begin to change. We have to loosen our grip on all our attachments.
This is a workshop on how impermanence and death enrich life, and how to work with it in a different way. It takes courage. We can always choose to bury our heads in the sand, ignore or stay distracted from this truth, and get wrecked when impermanence hits us personally. If you are ready to abandon that approach, this recurring workshop is right for you.
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