Hello my dear Asterites.

Hello my dear friends. Hello my dear friends, welcome to the Aster hustle.

I'm Cori Allen.

This is my podcast. Welcome to it. I'm glad to have you here today and I hope that you were having a beautiful, beautiful day today.

I've got a powerful podcast for you today. Frank Osteski joins me on the podcast. Frank is a

Buddhist teacher and a leader in the field of end-of-life care. He is the

founding director of Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco and has set with

thousands of people in the final moments of their life and help them emotionally

and physically and physically arrive at that final moment with peace and grace.

Frank is also an author.

He's written a book called The Five Invitations, Discovering What Death can teach us about living fully.

I had an amazing time speaking with Frank and you know he shares all these

different stories and insights about you know just spending time with people at the end of their lives

and and what that's taught him about life itself how that's time to embrace today

embrace you know the beauty and the gift of what it means to be alive now

and it's just a very touching and warm and deep conversation with him and

so much that I ended up you know getting pretty moved and emotional at one point while we're talking just thinking about how selflessly he's dedicated himself to the incredibly giving work that he's done.

And this is a beautiful conversation full of a real deep compassion.

You can just feel the warmth from Frank coming through your headphones.

It's pretty remarkable. You can just tell. Frank coming through your headphones.

It's pretty remarkable.

You can just tell his heart is wide open.

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