In this one-day workshop, Sallie Jiko Tisdale will lead us in an exploration of our attitudes toward death and dying, as well as our own preparations for death and dying. Vegetarian lunch and beverages are included with the workshop.
Topics to be addressed during the day include:
What do we mean by a good death? How can it go wrong?
Our fantasies and fears about death
Zen approaches to death
Being a caregiver
What happens in the last months, weeks and days of life
Grief
Making a death plan and related issues
Sallie Jiko Tisdale is a Lay Zen Teacher at Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon. She is also a palliative care nurse, working part-time. She has written 9 books, and her work appears in all the major Buddhist publications.
The New York Times, gave her latest book a rave review:
“In its loving, fierce specificity, this book on how to die is also a blessedly saccharine-free guide for how to live. There’s a reason Buddhist monks meditate on charnel grounds, and why Cicero said the contemplation of death was the beginning of philosophy. Tisdale has written extensively about medicine, sex and faith — but spending time with the dying has been the foundation of her ethics; it is what has taught her to understand and tolerate ‘ambiguity, discomfort of many kinds and intimacy — which is sometimes the most uncomfortable thing of all.’” Parul Sehgal
Sallie will also give the Sunday Dharma Talk on March 22 at 9:45 am. Everyone is welcome
Jiko Sallie Tisdale