The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

Namaste, good evening.

Many of you are probably familiar with the research of his last few years that basically says that

as we get older elderly people have an increasing sense of well-being.

That one understanding is that we're adaptable and that as maturing beings we go through our

life and as we experience the natural, the inevitable losses, there's a growing kind

of acceptance of change and with that acceptance of change it enables more of an appreciation

of the moment.

That's one way of understanding this.

And as we know, the main theme of our lives is change.

Everything keeps changing and rumor has it that upon leaving the garden, Eve said to

Adam, my dear, we are living in a time of transition.

But doesn't it always feel that way?

I mean, at any time in your life it feels like, wow, I'm really in the midst of a lot of

transition.

There's a sense of that for many of us.

And that, well, changes if you really look close, it's unseasingly creative, the unfold

in.

There's also, if you take it from the perspective of the separate self, there's always a shadow

there of this kind of looming sense of loss.

And you know, for what I mean is that anything that's born dies, which includes us.

And so that means that there's a backdrop of this awareness of mortality that especially

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