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February
NEKKHAMA – RENUNCIATION
Workshop date: 02/03-04/2023
“As a bee gathers nectar
And moves on without harming
The flower, its color, or its fragrance,
Just so should a sage walk through a village. “
CLASS RECORDINGS
TO DO BEFORE MARCH CLASS:
– Practice regularly with paramita of the month: Panna / Wisdom
– Continue with service work
– Meet with your buddy
– Meet with your small group
– Have a Mentor Interview if you are scheduled here
– Writing assignments for this month are:
1)Dharma Story Reflection: Angulimala
2)Action Reflection #3
– Read the February workshop follow-up articles posted below
– There is no book of the month this time! Use the break for any catch up reading.
READ
NEKKHAMA/RENUNCIATION
The Perfection of Renunciation
Friend Beside the Pool
GRIEF
A Grief Primer for Caregivers
A Buddhist Perspective on Grieving
Grief and the Mindfulness Approach
“Going Crazy Syndrome”
DEATH
Death – A Zen Buddhist Perspective
Marana-Sati: Death Awareness and Contemplations
Spiritual Care Near Life’s End
The Nature of Suffering and Opportunity at the End of Life
A Theravada Approach to Spiritual Care to the Dying and the Dead
The Original Hospice – The Art of Dying Well
WORKSHEETS
Death Questionnaire
Preparing for One’s Own Death
OPTIONAL FURTHER READING
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
By Joan Halifax
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
By Frank Ostaseski
Website: The Conversation Project
LISTEN
Making Sense With Sam Harris: #297 Preparing For the End
A Conversation With BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger
LISTEN
WATCH (OPTIONAL)
POEM: WHEN DEATH COMES BY MARY OLIVER
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it’s over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.