Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying: Spiritual and Practical Preparation for Death
As spiritual seekers, we recognize the value of preparing for death. as we wish to live a meaningful life while facing death with as much confidence and consciousness as possible. Tibetan Buddhism provides a detailed guide and specific instructions for the death process, as well as prayers and practices to aid the transition.
This course will include spiritual advice for living life meaningfully and preparing for the time of death, based on a detailed explanation of the death process as it is described in the Tibetan Buddhist texts. We will discuss preparing health care directives for the end of life. Guided meditations will be offered, including contemplation on the stages of death, and instruction in the important practice of tonglen (“Giving and Taking”). The practice of the five powers at the time of death will be presented, as well as details regarding the handling of ashes and memorials.
This course is appropriate for health care workers, caregivers, those with terminal illness, or anyone who would like to learn more about this inevitable transition that we will all face, and learn to prepare for it with awareness and understanding. It is helpful, but not required, for participants to have some background in Buddhist ideas and philosophy.
Saturday March 24 10:00am-4:30pm (with a break for lunch)
Sunday March 25 10:00am-11:30am
at Diamond Light Meditation Center
2791 24th Street, Room 14 Sacramento CA 95818 (upstairs)
parking lot in back, ADA accessible
cost: suggested donation $40-$60 for the weekend, no one turned away for lack of funds. Scholarships available, please email diamondlight.sac@gmail.com for information.
To register: https://goo.gl/forms/cxJczbevur8gJ6m33
Venerable Tenzin Chogkyi is a Buddhist nun, activist and popular Buddhist retreat leader and teacher. She loves bridging the worlds of Buddhist thought, current affairs, and the latest research in the field of positive psychology. As well as being passionate about her spiritual practice she also cares deeply about prison reform, animal rights, equal rights for all and bringing an end to human trafficking and other modern forms of slavery.
Venerable Tenzin first became interested in meditation after reading Be Here Now and Autobiography of a Yogi in the early 1970s. She describes her spiritual path over the next 20 years as “meandering and haphazard” until she bought a one-way ticket to India in early 1991 with the intention of meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In the end, she became a student not only of His Holiness, but also of Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche and Lama Zopa Rinpoche during the year she spent studying at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamsala, India and Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. She also completed several long meditation retreats over a six-year period.