Best of: Frank Ostaseski: A Glimpse Into Mortality
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Frank Ostaseski has noticed that we as a society obsess about death. We spend a great deal of time trying to prepare for it and hope that we are “ready” for it when the time comes. But according to him, the best way to prepare for death is by living your life the best way you possibly can. Listen as Frank details how simply waiting on the dying of our loved one and ourselves makes us miss all the moments in between.
Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer and a leading voice in contemplative end-of-life care. In 1987, he co-founded of the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice in America. In 2004, he created the Metta Institute to provide innovative educational programs and professional trainings that foster compassionate, mindfulness-based care. He’s also the author of The Five Invitations
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| 0:58.7 | We spend all this time imagining we're going to get ready for our dying. |
| 1:02.1 | And I think it's a kind of absurd idea. we're going to get ready for our dying. |
| 1:02.8 | And I think it's a kind of absurd idea. |
| 1:05.3 | To imagine that at the time of our dying, we will have the strength of body, the emotional |
| 1:09.9 | stability, the mental clarity to do the work of a lifetime. |
| 1:13.1 | It's an absurd gamble. |
| 1:15.0 | So we should do this work now. |
| 1:16.7 | And that includes those of us who are not dying, |
| 1:19.0 | who are with our aging parents, for example. Be with them now. |
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