Love and death are the two great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.
—Rilke
If you want to understand suffering, learn to love.
If you want to understand love, face suffering.
—Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer
Inquiry recording:
https://soundcloud.com/appamada-zen/2014-10-14-inquiry-flint-sparks
In my recent workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, Living Our Dying, I began to realize as I listened to the participants describe their experiences that the barriers to facing death are precisely the same barriers to giving and receiving love.
This Inquiry session is an invitation to opening these gifts.
—Rilke
If you want to understand suffering, learn to love.
If you want to understand love, face suffering.
—Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer
Inquiry recording:
https://soundcloud.com/appamada-zen/2014-10-14-inquiry-flint-sparks
In my recent workshop in Madison, Wisconsin, Living Our Dying, I began to realize as I listened to the participants describe their experiences that the barriers to facing death are precisely the same barriers to giving and receiving love.
This Inquiry session is an invitation to opening these gifts.