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Talk titled: "Death", given during the event "Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-03-07.
Topics covered: aging/sickness/death, mindfulness, views/orientations in practice, inquiring, getting in touch with deeper priorities, three characteristics, impermanence (anicca)
Teacher's note on suitability: a free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. if we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. the heart grows in compassion and moves toward the deathless.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11859
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/b89fd89bb4abf1bb0169738023fc7ec0/bba08eee/2008_0307Death.pdf
Talk titled: "Death", given during the event "Working and Awakening - A Work Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2008-03-07.
Topics covered: aging/sickness/death, mindfulness, views/orientations in practice, inquiring, getting in touch with deeper priorities, three characteristics, impermanence (anicca)
Teacher's note on suitability: a free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. if we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. the heart grows in compassion and moves toward the deathless.
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To donate to Rob's foundation, The Hermes Amara Foundation, visit https://hermesamara.org, and click the Donate button. See Rob's Dharma Seed bio (dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/) for a description of this organization and Rob's founding of it.
Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/11859
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/b89fd89bb4abf1bb0169738023fc7ec0/bba08eee/2008_0307Death.pdf
