A Personal Perspective: Can mindfulness help us with the courage to face death?
Mindfulness and compassion offer different alternatives.For the past several months, I’ve been watching my mother die. It’s been a roller-coaster of exhaustion, disorientation, and confusion as I try to predict her needs, which are constantly changing, and divert a catastrophe. The uncertainty andcare. The conversation was interrupted by a sudden trip to the Emergency Room, and then a hospital admission.
This made intuitive sense. For a number of years, I’ve been studying Zen koans, sparked by a class at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, taught by Gerry Shishin Wick, a scholar and Zen master, author of, psychiatrist Mark Epstein explains that a koan is meant to help someone reach an understanding beyond conceptual thought.
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