loss

Buddhism, grief, and loss

Recently a meditation student who's only just begun practicing wrote to say that she'd experienced a bereavement. She wondered if…

September 30, 2014

Defending against loss

The Buddha taught that we spend most of our life like children in a burning house, so entranced by our…

March 4, 2013

This precious human birth

When one of Sunada's best friends from college lost her brother recently, it served as a wake up call for…

April 25, 2011

The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed, by Kathleen Willis Morton

There can be few things more painful than the death of a child. Can Buddhist practice help us cope even…

October 1, 2009

Waking up in the midst of loss

When life pulls the rug out from under us, we have a choice. We can either look backward at it…

February 27, 2008