Venerable Guan Zhen: Only a Stone has No Feeling
When your loved one dies, it can feel like you have been shot in the heart with an arrow.
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On Grief and Gratitude
Finding appreciation when you think all is lost. I woke up, and jumped out of bed, ready to get dressed and tackle another day at work. Then, it hit me. I wasn’t going to work. I had lost my job. Tears began to well up in my eyes, and I plopped back down on the
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Lessons Learned from Dr. Seth Zuihō Segall – However You are Feeling
So many wisdom bombs, In a good way. You know like a truth bomb or a value bomb? Reflections on the different ways in which people handle their grief, with an understanding that however you are feeling is absolutely OK. Your feelings do not own you or define you, and they will change. Keep working
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Dr. Seth Zuihō Segall – Buddhism helps us Flourish
It takes a special person to illustrate the different ways in which grief impacts each of us, and then to teach what it is we all need in order to flourish. Dr. Seth Zuihō Segall, author of Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective, is that person. His background as a Psychologist and Zen
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Name Two Things that Belong Together?
And the answer is: death and equanimity. Knock Knock! (A haiku) Oh, it’s you again.Really? No place else to be?OK, death—come in. I remember driving to pick up a refill of Dad’s morphine prescription. He was definitely in his final stages with lung cancer. All around me in the drug store were people just going about their
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