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what's going on welcome to the astro hustle hope you're having a beautiful

peaceful day today and speaking a beautiful peaceful type things

Roshi Joan Halifax is my guest. I'm very excited about that. It was such a joy to speak with her.

She is a very inspiring and just remarkable human being.

She's a Buddhist teacher, a Zen priest, an anthropologist, and a pioneer in the field of end of life care.

She founded the UPAya Zen Center.

She has a PhD in medical anthropology. She worked with Stanislav Groff to provide psychological care

for dying cancer patients and has continued that work with people who were dying since the 70s when she did that work with

Stan Groff. She's an author of many wonderful books including a new one

titled Standing at the Edge.

She's amazing because she actually gets out there and does it.

You know, I mean, there are a lot of people who they study. They study the type of work that she studies in, whether it be Buddhism or what have you,

and then they teach it and they live it in their own lives.

While that's great, what Joan Halifax does is something called socially engaged Buddhism.

She gets out there in the field.

She is constantly traveling, constantly, really just offering herself and her resources and everything

her and the people around her can bring to help alleviate suffering in different places around the world and raise the awareness of people and of those situations that are occurring.

So amazing, inspiring person and I'm excited to share this podcast with you. Our connection was a little bit spotty at the beginning. It became fine as we go on. So don't worry about that.

We talk about her work. We talk about death, we talk about the social changes, all sorts of stuff.

It's just a real great all-encompassing type of conversation.

And we'll go ahead and get to it now. If you do have a moment I

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