Dear Friends, As we prepare for our 3rd class and to support your continued experiential practice with the reality of impermanence and dying/death, please include the following practices and journal your experiences: Daily: 1. The 5 Remembrances. Reflect on each deeply and allow the truths of these phrases to penetrate through your illusions about permanence. 2. Imagine your death and the death of your loved ones. Practice the meditation from the first class in corpse pose. Imagine saying goodbye to your loved ones, all your objects and attachments of life. Note your comfort as you say goodbye to people and objects. Which are easier? Which are harder? In addition practice imagining your loved ones dying. How is that experience for you saying good bye to them as they die? What are they saying to you as they say goodbye? Journal your refections to deepen these experiences. 3.Try daily to practice the 9 Contemplations. This practice from Atisha is found in the book Being with Dying Chapter 6. Use this guidance to help in imagining the inevitability of death, the truth that your life span is continually decreasing, the uncertainty of the time of death, and the losses of loved ones and one’s body at the time of death. Are you developing a real understanding and experience of these truths? Readings for this week: 1. Being with Dying Chapter 1 titled Path of Discovery The Lucky “A Dark" and Chapter 6 "You are Already Dying Realizing Impermanence, Selflessness, and Freedom” 2. No Death No Fear Chapter 3 "The Practice of Looking Deeply" In the Dharma, Marilyn
Dear Friends, As we prepare for our 3rd class and to support your continued experiential practice with the reality of impermanence and dying/death, please include the following practices and journal your experiences: Daily: 1. The 5 Remembrances. Reflect on each deeply and allow the truths of these phrases to penetrate through your illusions about permanence. 2. Imagine your death and the death of your loved ones. Practice the meditation from the first class in corpse pose. Imagine saying goodbye to your loved ones, all your objects and attachments of life. Note your comfort as you say goodbye to people and objects. Which are easier? Which are harder? In addition practice imagining your loved ones dying. How is that experience for you saying good bye to them as they die? What are they saying to you as they say goodbye? Journal your refections to deepen these experiences. 3.Try daily to practice the 9 Contemplations. This practice from Atisha is found in the book Being with Dying Chapter 6. Use this guidance to help in imagining the inevitability of death, the truth that your life span is continually decreasing, the uncertainty of the time of death, and the losses of loved ones and one’s body at the time of death. Are you developing a real understanding and experience of these truths? Readings for this week: 1. Being with Dying Chapter 1 titled “A Path of Discovery The Lucky Dark" and Chapter 6 "You are Already Dying Realizing Impermanence, Selflessness, and Freedom” 2. No Death No Fear Chapter 3 "The Practice of Looking Deeply" In the Dharma, Marilyn
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