On March 6, 2005, best-selling author Mitch Albom delivered the annual Roland Quest Lecture at Elmhurst College.
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At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients.
1980's. Ram Dass gives lecture on internal and external suffering. He says that resisting our suffering creates more suffering for ourselves and for other people. We need to practice listening, and to observe the way the mind responds to somebody's story.
This is a video recording of an interview with Robert A. Johnson, conducted by J. Pittman McGehee in San Diego in 2002.
Dr. Robert Johnson discusses the role of the priest in protecting people from close encounters with god. Also, he contrasts the suffering of the modern western male to the eastern psyche in his film IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL
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If what it is you want it to simply to be done with this woundedness then you will continue to search for something that temporarily at least makes you feel better.
Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.
All Masters have said, “Aham Brahmasmi” (I am Brahman) and “Tat Twam Asi,” (You are that). Disciples then perform constant shravanam, mananam and nidhidyasanam (listening, reflection and internalization), and through this process they reach the depths of these statements.