Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully : Howie Geismar, Monday noon-1:00pm
Buddhism teaches us how to live a meaningful life and attain lasting happiness by cultivating a peaceful mind, a good heart and wisdom.. But it also addresses our daily experiences of difficulties and suffering throughout this life and in life after life. We feel there is no escape from the sufferings of birth, sickness, aging, death and all our daily problems. However, through exploring Buddhist wisdom about death and dying we develop an awareness of our own mortality that totally enriches and transforms our human life into one of great meaning and joy. By contemplating Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's book Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully we will both attain practical advice on how to help those who are dying and also learn how to make our  own death a meaningful experience