ENTRY Points for Reflection

Articles:

Buddhism’s “Five Remembrances” Are Wake-Up Calls for Us All  - Koun Franz - Lion's Roar

Sun in a Sunless Place - Rima Vesely-Flad - Tricycle

The 5 Remembrances: A Buddhist Reminder to Live Fully - Caitlin McColl - Elephant Journal

The Five Remembrances - Pamela Ayo Yetunde - Lion's Roar

Books:

• The Fire Inside:  The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde - Rima Vesely-Flad, Ph.D.

• Waves Into Water:  Reflecting on the Five Remembrances - Rashani Rea and Friends

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart advice for difficult times  - Pema Chodron

Dharma Talks:

• The Five Remembrances - Vinny Ferraro

• The Five Remembrances - The Truth and Nothing But the Truth - Dharma Talk from Devin Berry - Chicago Meditation Group

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 1 – I Am of the Nature to Grow Old - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 2 – I Am of the Nature to Have Ill Health - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 3 – The Sixth Remembrance – Caring - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 4 – I am of the Nature to Die - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 5 – All That is Dear to Me and Everyone I Love Are of the Nature to Change - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

• The Five Remembrances – Talk 6 – My Actions Are My Only True Belongings - Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

Podcast Interviews:

• The Buddhist Buzzkill That Could Radically Alter Your Year (and your life) - 10% Happier Podcast interview with  Vinny Ferraro 

Poetry:

Don't Go Back to Sleep - Rumi

The Five Remembrances - Trudy Johnston

Other Written Texts:

• Finding Peace in a Changing World - Reflection from Robert Waldinger

• Walk for Peace Dharma Offering - Sachin Gautam

Articles:

• Help When Your Heart Breaks - Joan Halifax - Lion's Roar

• Impermanence is Buddha Nature - Norman Fischer - Lion's Roar

• Navigating Change: The Five Remembrances in Everyday Life - Marc Lesser - Lion's Roar

• You Are Already Dying - Joan Halifax - Lion's Roar

Books:

• A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis

• Advice for the Dying (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death - Sallie Tisdale

• Alive Until You're Dead: Notes on the Home Stretch - Susan Moon 

• Awake at the Bedside:  Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care - Ed. Koshin Paley Ellison & Matt Weingast

• Bearing the Unbearable:  Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief - Joanne Cacciatore

• Being with Dying:  Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death - Joan Halifax

• Between Two Kingdoms - A Memoir of a Life Interrupted - Suleika Jaouad

• Death:  The End of Self-Improvement - Joan Tollifson

• Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Five Invitations:  Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully - Frank Ostaseski

• Grace and Grit - Ken Wilber

• The Grieving Body - How the Stress of Loss can be an Opportunity for Healing - Mary-Frances O'Connor

• The Grieving Brain - The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss - Mary-Frances O'Connor

• Grieving Is Loving:  Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable - Joanne Cacciatore

• How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers - Toni Bernhard

• How to Face Death Without Fear - Lama Zopa Rinpoche

• How We Live Is How We Die - Pema Chodron

• No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom For Life - Thich Nhat Hanh

• Suffering Buddha: The Zen Way Beyond Health and Illness - Robert Epstein with Stacy Taylor

• Tend to Your Spirit: Mindful Living with Chronic Illness - Julianne Lepp & Florence Caplow

• touching two worlds:  a guide for finding hope in the landscape of loss - Sherry Walling

• Turning Towards Grief:  Reflections on Life, Loss, and Appreciation - James Crews

• The Unfolding - Poems - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanthani

• Zen and the Art of Illness - Ronna Fay Jevne

Dharma Talks:

• Discovering the Reality of the Five Remembrances - Dharma Talk by Dr. Wendy Dainin Lau, Upaya

• Love and Grief - Dharma Talk by Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Everyday Zen

Film/Television:

• Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)

• Dying for Sex (2024) - Limited Series on Hulu

• Ghostlight (2024)

• The Taste of Things (2024)

• We Live in Time (2024)

Music:

• Change - Big Thief

• Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips

• Glitter - Patrick Droney

Podcast Interviews:

• A Compassionate Space for Death - Mindrolling Podcast Ep.507 Roshi Joan Halifax & Raghu Markus

• Grateful for Grief - Interview with Stephen Colbert on All There Is with Anderson Cooper 

• How Death Teaches Us to Live - Podcast Interview - What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.

• Loss, Yearning, Transcendence - Interview with Nick Cave - On Being

Poems:

Blessing for the Brokenhearted - Jan Richardson

Farewell Letter - David Whyte

For Grief - John O'Donohue

Funeral Blues - W.H. Auden

The Gate - Marie Howe

How To Belong Be Alone - Pádraig Ó Tuama

If You Knew - Ellen Bass

In Blackwater Woods - Mary Oliver

On the Death of the Beloved - John O’Donohue

Remember - Christina Rossetti

Separation - W. S. Merwin

Talking to Grief - Denise Levertov

The Thing Is - Ellen Bass

The Well of Grief - David Whyte

The Window by Rumi

Token Loss - Kay Ryan

When Death Comes - Mary Oliver

Other Written Texts:

• The Accident:  Kindness and Impermanence - Essay by Zoketsu Norman Fischer

• To Philosophize is to Learn to die -  Michel de Montaigne

• When Blossoms Fall - A Zen Guide for Death & Dying - SF Zen Center

• Zen Sickness - Zen Master Hakuin

Video Clips:

• A Compassionate Space for Death - Mindrolling Podcast Ep.507 Roshi Joan Halifax & Raghu Markus

• Grateful for Grief - Interview with Stephen Colbert on All There Is with Anderson Cooper

• I Hope This Grief Stays with Me - Interview with Andrew Garfield on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• Molly is Taught the Process of Dying - Clip from TV Show Dying for Sex

• Understanding Impermanence - Buddhism Podcast

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