We are all diminished by a society that denies life and death. It’s like a missing puzzle piece and we are not whole without it.
Dying is not failing, death is one-hundred percent normal. It’s one of the most natural things that we do.
But because of fear, and because the truth of aging, sickness, and death are mostly hidden away from view, facing the reality of them can seem impossible.”
– Mary Doane
How can we cultivate compassion? How can we best love someone through the process of dying? What does self-compassion look like if we get sick?
Find out in this week’s episode of The Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews meditation and compassion teacher, Mary Doane on Compassion Through Life and Loss.
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about Mary Doane
Mary Doane trained at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) and is a certified instructor of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT©).
She is Senior Instructor of Education Programs and a curriculum consultant at Zen Caregiving Project (formerly known as Zen Hospice Project), where she served as a volunteer bedside caregiver for over a decade.
Mary has completed Buddhist Chaplaincy training at the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, and studied at Upaya Institute and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Links from the show
- Our 8-week Compassion Cultivation Training Starting January 14th
- Stanford CCARE
- Compassion Institute
- Zen Caregiving Project
- End Game, documentary about Zen Caregiving
- Thupten Jinpa, author of A Fearless Heart
- Top 10 Scientific Benefits of Compassion (Infographic), Emma Seppala
- “Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.” – Prince
- Shunryu Suzuki aka Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- The Ten Thousand Joys and The Ten Thousand Sorrows
- Ram Dass, author of Be Here Now
- Mark Nepo, author of The Book of Awakening
- Sylvia Boorstein, The answer is always compassion
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