Center for End of Life Transitions (CEOLT)

05/09/2024

Contemplation of Atisha #3:

Death Will Come Whether You Are Prepared or Not

A downloadable image with the full text of the contemplation is posted below.

04/30/2024

Contemplation of Atisha #2:

Your Life Span Is Decreasing Continuously

A downloadable image with the full text of the contemplation is posted below.

04/24/2024

Contemplation of Atisha #1:

All of Us Will Die Sooner or Later

A downloadable image with the full text of the contemplation is posted below.

04/20/2024

You are invited to practice the Nine Contemplations of Atisha with us for the next 9 weeks.

We will post one of Atisha’s contemplations each week. With each contemplation there be a downloadable JPEG image file with the full text of the contemplation. Today the downloadable introduction image is posted below.

04/20/2024

03/28/2024

Registration ends on Monday April 1, 2024 for our next Advance Care and After Death Care Directives Workshop.

Workshop Date: Wednesdays - April 10, April 17 and April 24
Time: 10am-1pm Eastern Time, via Zoom.

We hope you will join us for this interactive workshop and begin your journey exploring your wishes for your care leading up to your death and the care of your body after death. This is an opportunity to start your end-of-life care documents and have a plan in place for yourself and your loved ones.

Death is a journey that all must take, and establishing your path before the time arrives can make that journey easier for you and your loved ones. Documenting and communicating your final wishes is critical so that your loved ones know what you want and what to do when the time comes.

03/26/2024

Contemplations of Atisha

In gratitude to Joan Halifax Roshi and Larry Rosenberg for providing this teaching for our present benefit.

The Nine Contemplations of Atisha offer us a way to explore the inevitability of death and what is important to us in the light of our mortality. The practice asks us to question what we are doing in our life at this very moment and to see what is important for us to do to prepare for death. The contemplations come from Atisha, an eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist scholar, who systematized the method for generating an enlightened mind. This practice is based on the work of Larry Rosenberg.

Contemplation #1: All of us will die sooner or later.

Repeatedly, waking up each morning, one can assume that this life will continue forever. With this experience, we may forget that we will die sooner or later. Each of us will die and nothing can save us. Death is a natural outcome of birth and is inevitable.

A Practice:
The question: What are you doing in your life right now that will help you die (let go)?
On the in breath: “Death is inevitable”
On the out breath: “I, too, will die”

Keeping this in mind can help soften the experience of ourselves and the world. Remembering that every being will die can help bring compassion to ourselves and into the world. How can you support the parts of yourself that experiences fear around death? How will you kindly and gently call your attention back to contemplating death when the mind distracts itself? Where do you feel it in your body, your blood, and your bones? Your breath?

Death is inevitable; this is the first contemplation.

10/19/2022

Our next Advance Care / Advance Death Care Workshop is in less than 2 weeks. There are still a few spots available! Zoom format allows you to join from anywhere! We look forward to seeing you.

Death is a journey that all must take, and establishing your path before the time arrives can make that journey easier for you and your loved ones. Documenting and communicating your final wishes is critical so that your loved ones know what you want and what to do when the time comes.

07/25/2022

You haven't heard from us in a while. I hope this finds you well and happy. We are offering two classes this year and hopefully our full curriculum and more in 2023! Check out the attached MailChimp newsletter. If you haven't subscribed, you may do so on our website: ceolt.org Sending blessings of boundless love and joy. Caroline

Perhaps you have thought about starting, completing, reviewing, or even finding your end-of-life documents. We offer you an opportunity to participate in a casual group setting where you will work to complete your advance care and after-death care documents. The goal: a notarized set of end-of-life....

05/29/2020

This is part of a series called Sacred Steps from KALW's The Spiritual Edge. A great story and interview with Caroline Yongue.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many Americans into sudden intimacy with difficult feelings: anxiety, fear, and grief. In this story from The Spiritual