Meditation
Jitindriyā
Hold confusion and sorrow with kindness and care.
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Welcome any painful emotions, and hold them with compassion.
Diana Winston
Examine the impermanence of difficult emotions through investigative awareness.
Annaka Harris
Imagine the kindness a loved one would send you, and send it to yourself.
Sam Harris
Practice this meditation on the worst day of your life.
Lesson
Kieran Setiya
Understand how to grapple with real loss.
Amanda Knox
“Whatever it is that we are, it extends beyond our skin and even our minds.”
Pico Iyer
A sacred Japanese mountain symbolizes mortality, longing, and transcendence.
Conversation
Frank Ostaseski, Sam Harris
Sam and Frank discuss mortality, bereavement, secular rituals, psychedelics, and more.
Contemplation
David Whyte
Learn about one's experience with loss and grief.
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