Ep. 109 - The Five Invitations with Frank Ostaseski, Roshi Joan Halifax and Raghu Markus

Ram Dass Here And Now

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🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Ram Dass is joined by Roshi Joan Halifax, Raghu Markus and the author of “The Five Invitations,” Frank Ostaseski, to talk about his book and how death offers a path to radical transformation. Frank Ostaseski is a leader in contemplative end-of-life care. His book, "The Five Invitations," gives practices for anyone navigating any sort of loss and shows us how to wake up fully to our lives. Frank leads the group in a discussion about death and dying in the context of these Five Invitations. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Rago Marcus and this is Ramdas here and now.
0:20.6	Got a great podcast this week.
0:24.6	Ramdas hangs out with a couple of his very close friends and co-teachers, Rosci Joan
0:29.5	Halifax, who many of you know because she does guest podcasts on the Be Here Now Network
0:36.7	and Frank Ostesseski, who Ramdas has taught with over many, many years, especially in the
0:44.5	area of death and dying and working with the people who are at end of life.
0:51.6	And today the discussion revolves around some of the concepts from Frank's book.
0:59.2	He has a new book which is really quite fantastic and it's called The Five Invitations and
1:07.4	it's really an examination of how death offers a path to radical transformation and I really
1:14.0	believe so some of the invitations are don't wait, don't wait before you start to enter
1:21.7	into an inner dialogue around dealing with the transitions in life.
1:29.6	Welcome everything and push nothing away.
1:33.0	Bring your whole self to the experience, find a place of rest in the middle of things
1:38.4	and cultivate a don't-know-mind.
1:41.1	Now all of these things really can inform our life at every stage and that a lot of what
1:49.4	certainly part of the conversation does revolve around these concepts are highly useful
1:55.6	to us, not just in the case of facing death, illness and so on.
2:01.6	So a really important book and it's a fantastic conversation that I think is super important.
2:12.7	Look again across all stages of life, not just you got to think okay I'm over 50, 60
2:19.9	or whatever so now I can start thinking about this stuff.
2:23.4	I think if you start thinking of it in your 20s and 30s because it informs how you deal
2:29.1	with life on a day to day basis so these are great great concepts.
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