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Healing into Life and Death

…happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from physical sickness, we can take refuge in presence and love….

Letting Life Live Through Us

Many years ago, after several years of experiencing a long chronic illness, I attended a six-week Vipassana meditation retreat. Given my struggles with sickness, I looked forward to this time…

Article: Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness

…physical discomfort, but I found that I made myself “wrong” for being sick. Having already struggled with chronic sickness, this retreat made it clear just how harshly I had been…

Article: Letting Life Live Through Us: Healing and Awakening Through our Bodies

…sickness was a reflection of her weak character, each cycle of physical illness deepened her feelings of shame. She fearfully fast-forwarded into the future—“I’ll never get well;” and easily felt…

Blog: Taking Your Hands Off the Controls

…so many things are completely out of our control—aging, sickness, dying, other people dying, other people acting in ways we don’t like, our own moods and emotions…it’s all out of…

Tara Talks: Impermanence of the Body (5:54 min. video)

Aging, sickness and dying are treated as something “bad” to be fought. Truly opening to the reality that every body in the universe continually changes can awaken us to the…

Blog ~ Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty (text and audio)

…a chronic sickness, a failure at work, the pain of an addiction, a conversation you now regret. Take some moments to enter the experience—visualizing the scene or situation, remembering the…

Heavenly Messengers: Tara Interviews Frank Ostaseski

Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice, on a contemplative approach to death and dying. For more information on the new “Heavenly Messengers: Awakening Through Aging, Sickness and Death”……