2018-12-02 38 Release 46:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Practicing for release follows the trajectory of knowing (ñāṇa) and culminates in realization (aññā). We review the aggregates with dispassion, recognizing their causal basis, and stop taking them to be self. Devotional practices support the shift from self-consciousness to trackless consciousness where self, other, future, past are no longer concocted. This is the turning towards the deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 13 - Death of friends, loved ones and teachers meditation 45:53
Ajahn Achalo	Download Listen
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-19 Morning Reflections On The Death Of A Benefactor 17:01
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A friend who sat the 3-month retreat 17 times, has passed away. As she was preparing, this talk by Ajahn Chaah was offered to her.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-14 Aging Sickness and Death and the Five Daily Reflections. 58:26
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-01 Morning Reflection: Spiritual Urgency – Samvega 18:29
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
What are the seeds that bring you to spiritual practice? What is life about? What is death…its significance, its meaning: Can I be happy? How can I live gracefully, peacefully in this life with all the challenges & difficulties in the changing world…with all the challenges within me?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-09-18 Spiritual Urgency: Reflections on Aging, Dying, Death, and the Urgency of Finding Peace 64:24
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Freedom Through Understanding: Insight as the Path to Peace

2018-09-14 The Mysterious Creative Process of Living and Dying (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:54
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Life and Death as a process of change and transformation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit of Creativity

2018-08-20 Nachiketo and the Lord of Death - How to move through difficulties as a transformative initiation. Monday night dharma talk. 61:02
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-15 Death – Come and Take My Hand 46:24
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
What is our relation to death? To our death? Are we prepared for this certain event in our life? The frequent reflection on the inevitability of death sets free the energy to do what is meaningful and beneficial in our life. Our priorities become clear and we do not waste time with trivial things.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-07-06 Death - Our Close Friend 52:50
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
The reflection on death should be frequently practiced by anyone who seeks freedom from suffering. It arouses the necessary urgency and makes us think about our priorities in life.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-07-04 Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World 45:58
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk looks at the way we run from “lady death” and the blessings of opening our arms and heart. If we can embrace the whole of our nature with unconditional presence – including the inevitability of change and loss–we discover deep wisdom and enduring love. (a favorite from the archives) May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing it and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. — from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, by Rainer Maria Rilke
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-03 The Benefits of Walking Meditation 64:38
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
The practice of walking meditation is not to underestimate. The benefits are numerous not only on the physical and mental level but also in facilitating deep liberating insights into the three general characteristics and the deathless.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-07-01 22 Q&A: Relational Snags, Power of Resolve, Liberation from Clinging 1:10:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Why did you become a monk; the place of women in this lineage; relational snags; strengthening pāramīs; what survives death; stream entry; identifying is another word for clinging; responses to the group process exercises
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-18 Why Practice in Nature, Part 2: Cultivating Wisdom and Insight 47:08
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how a contemplative immersion in nature supports insight into impermanence, death, selflessness and freedom.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: Summer Solstice Meditation in Nature Retreat

2018-06-07 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:31
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of death is both personal and impersonal. Eugene gave a picture of his experience of death and it’s relationship to his personal practice that included his time as a hospice volunteer/trainer, as a son caring for his dying parents, and, his near death experience. He also outlined Buddhist teachings about death in the Theravada and Zen lineages.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Aging, Dying and Awakening

2018-05-11 Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:51
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Maranasati leads to being real and being grateful for both life and death. As we mature and deal directly with the truth of death we value life and the preciousness of existence. This reality brings gratefulness of all that is given–– our bodies, hearts, minds, the earth, sky, universe and each moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-11 Day 6 Morning Instructions: Aspirations for living from the perspective of our deathbed. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:02
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
In this morning's guided meditation, first we settle in with the body, appreciating the intimacy and the impersonality of experience, holding both experiences equally valid. Then, we look at our lives from the vantage point of our deathbed (far in the future, only for the purpose of this thought exercise) and reflect on aspirations that arise for living our life in this precious human birth, however long we have left.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-10 Maranasati: "If My Life Is for Rent...Nothing I Have Is Truly Mine." 57:25
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Three fruits of maranasati practice are discussed: 1) Preparing for our moment of death with fearlessness and peace. Topics of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and rebirth are presented with a don't know mind. 2) Living THIS limited, precious life fully, with gratitude, forgiveness, generosity and letting go. 3) Awakening, liberation, nibbana -- Maranasati is a practice towards liberation, arising insights into the three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-09 Story of Anathapindika: Death and Letting go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:42
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Anathapindika was one of the foremost householder followers of the Buddha. As he is dying Sariputta and Ananda go to comfort him. Seeing his imminent death they offer teachings never before given to householders. He receives the radical teachings of not clinging, letting go of all experience and waking up.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-08 Death contemplation awakens us to life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:53
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
In this talk, Nikki Mirghafori (first ~30 minutes) and Eugene Cash (the rest) discuss how death contemplation helps us awaken to living this life, with embracing letting go and not knowing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-07 Death: "This is Nature, This is Natural" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:46
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
The first part of the talk, the hindrances (Nivarana in Pali), also translated as veils, are discussed through the lens of Maranasati practice. The second part of the talk is devoted to sharing lessons from my mother's recent passing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-06 Maranasati Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:43
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Exploring the Buddhist teaching of Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death How it’s taught and how one personally works with, recognizes and manifests this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-04-10 Sense Of Urgency 43:29
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided meditation on death.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Middle Way ~ Finding Our Natural Resting Place: Monastic Retreat

2018-03-11 As Silence Is To Sound 57:56
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Turn the mind to the deathless. The story of Anuruddha. No footprints in the sky. reflection on papanca, conceptual proliferation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-02-22 The 5 Daily Recollections (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:39
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This is a talk for yogis on long retreat, inviting practice of recollection of aging, sickness, death, separation and karma. The talk mostly covers the first 3 of the 5 recollections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-05 Evening Q&A 51:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
1. Can you please speak about dependent origination; 2.(37:20 What is a skilful way to deal with boredom at work?; 3. (35:47) Question on body meditation; 4. (44:53) Could you talk about death?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2018-01-05 Life Itself 1:12:31
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on the implications of the teaching of not-self: human dignity, preciousness, connectedness and the deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-12-22 Introduction: Orientation that takes us through birth, aging & death 21:09
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Finding true orientation often begins with disorientation from the known. We look for orientation that can take us through birth, aging and death when everything is always changing. It’s Dhamma, the unconditioned, no need to hold on. That’s the ultimate security.
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat

2017-11-12 How Do I Save That Moth? 20:06
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Winter of the World is here… How do we bear it? What does the mind need in order to open to the teachings? Dana. Sila. Generosity and virtue. Cultivating generosity, starting with the material, can mature into acts of sharing one’s time, energy, abilities, kindness and compassion. Let us cherish these noble qualities and develop them in a boundless way, for all beings. The Buddha advises us how to be fearless and present with a loved one near death. A talk given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in November, 2017.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2017-10-19 Moving Beyond Duality 39:50
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Form is not different from emptiness. Reflections on the Heart Sutra. Kuan Yin's method of contemplation. Turning the mind to the deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-10-10 Attending To The Immovable 62:00
Kittisaro	Download Listen
"Turn your mind to the deathless" Relationship of change to changeless. Putting down the burden.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2017-10-08 Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:20
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
How contemplating and practicing with our mortality brings forward human maturity and allows us to appreciate this precious human life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-08 Day 6 Morning Instructions: Deathbed visualization (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:39
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-07 Three Dimensions of Death Contemplation Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:12
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
The three dimensions of death contemplation are discussed: 1) preparing for death (ours and others) 2) awakening to our precious human life, and 3) awakening/liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-06 Anathapindika: Letting Go into Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:22
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The radical teachings of letting go are offered to Anathapindika before he dies. He advocated these teachings be offered to all householders. How we practice radical letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-03 Maranasati Retreat Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:44
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Great is the matter of Birth-and-Death. Life passed swiftly and is quickly lost Awaken! Awaken! Do not waste your life... Exploring mindfulness of death in Theravada Practice. Looking at the reality of human death in the world today and at the time of the Buddha. The paradox and potential of opening to the reality of death as part of life and Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-08-11 Turning to Dust: Death Contemplations 26:36
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The nine-cemetary contemplations presented in the Satipatthana Sutta work with elemental perspectives on the parts of the body by simulating their condition after death.  The clarity of mind realized in these special practices sheds light on how valuable death contemplations are for a wholesome and happy life.  Not only does the mind gain immense lucidity and peace, but we are able to access and develop special qualities of mental composure, joy and discernment.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2017-06-15 Death is Inevitable (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:33
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided meditation on Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-14 Death and Dying on the Noble Eightfold Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:59
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-13 Early Morning Reflections: The Trained Mind, The Untrained Mind and The Choice 17:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Remember the gift of mind. It can seem such a tangle at times. The untrained mind is difficult and can be deadly. The trained mind is a beauty, it can be liberated – deathless. This is choice. Attending to what’s worthy of attention; attending to what gives rise to beautiful states that lift and brighten. Withdrawing attention from states that become burdensome, confusing, useless. The gift of attention, use it wisely.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-09 Maranasati: Dying and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Exploring what we think death is and it’s role and function as part of Buddhist meditation and realization. We examine the role of death in our conventional lives with the arising and passing of roles, worlds we’re involved with & times and stages of our life that pass. What happens as we normalize the dying process as part of the great letting go. How does letting go reveal the awakened heart?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-05-24 The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World 53:02
Tara Brach	Download Listen
“What is it that allows us to open our hearts to every moment of our life? It’s the remembrance that it’s passing and it’s precious.” Our true refuge is reality – only by opening to “things as they are” do we find true peace and freedom. This talk explores impermanence – a key feature of reality. We look at our habits of resisting change – including loss and death, the practices that awaken and open us, and the gifts of letting go into the ever-changing river of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-23 Funeral of the Ego & Chant on Impermanence 3:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
We come on retreat from our busy lives where we can easily relapse into old unworthy mental habits, hoping that here, at last, we can put them to sleep. They too are impermanent. Reflect on their impermanence using these chants for the funeral of our ego and the death of our ignorance. Once their corpse is seen and placed in a coffin, it’s possible to sustain open compassionate awareness wherever we are.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-22 As Still As the Earth 8:22
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Standing as still as we can like the earth, aware, embodying qualities of heart that we treasure, share the goodness with all who are dear to us, and with all beings. Live wisely from that kind of pure inner space. As we chant these essential five recollections, reflect: we are all subject to aging, sickness, and death; we shall all be separated from what is ours, it will fade and be lost; and we are the heirs of our karmic deeds – for good or for ill.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-09 Four Noble Truths in the Light of Death (Class series at Spirit Rock) 48:49
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Dharma talk from Year to Live series at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-24 The Tender Heart of Life and Death (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:07:13
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Monday Night Meditation and Dharma talk with Jack Kornfield and Frank Ostaseski
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-04-13 Understanding Death 61:17
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Buddha's advise to Ananda when venerable Sariputta died.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2016-12-31 Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death 38:40
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-28 Love - and Death 61:32
Tara Brach	Download Listen
To live our lives fully, we need to embrace the natural unfolding of birthing and dying. Yet we are deeply conditioned to resist loss, to pull away from fear and grief. Through a powerful Inuit story shared by Clarissa Estes, this talk explores how our practices of presence can open us to what we avoid, and free us to love without holding back.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-11 More Suggestions for Practicing Tonglen 40:22
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) :  Living Fearlessly with Change