death – Lama Chimey

Living the Bardo: Continuity and Presence

Photo © Photographer Recently, I was asked to hold space at a great gathering. The theme: transitions. Bardos. The rawness of impermanence. Hundreds of people came.Rows of bodies, breathing.Eyes open, eyes closed.Hands resting, hands folded. The room hummed quietly, with the weight of expectation, of curiosity, of searching. Do you like what you are reading? SignContinue reading “Living the Bardo: Continuity and Presence”

Death as a Teacher: A Buddhist’s Reflection on Dying and Returning

Recently, I joined a podcast to speak about death. (If you understand Swedish you can listen to it here. ) Both symbolically and philosophically. But primarily—as the inescapable fact it is. It’s not a subject I shy away from. In my world, death is a companion, not a threat. I’ve sat with people who wereContinue reading “Death as a Teacher: A Buddhist’s Reflection on Dying and Returning”

Embracing the Unseen Guest: A Buddhist Reflection on Death

Consider this quiet guest, woven into the fabric of all life yet rarely welcomed: death. In Western culture, death is often a taboo, a shadow to be avoided until it stands inescapably before us. But in the Buddhist tradition, death is a teacher and a silent companion, walking beside us from the first breath weContinue reading “Embracing the Unseen Guest: A Buddhist Reflection on Death”

From Earth to Earth…

In my early twenties, I had a personal close up encounter with death that became a close call to ceasing to exist from this current human life altogether. I had been back and forth to a hospital for reoccurring emergency surgeries due to undefined stomach pain for some months. Eventually, during the third surgery preparationsContinue reading “From Earth to Earth…”