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Death Dhamma
Where there is birth, there will also be death. You know this. But do you really connect with it, embrace it, live it and welcome it into your practice? Welcome to Death Dhamma. A place where death will be your teacher. Together we will explore how the ultimate impermanence can strengthen our practice and improve the quality of our lives.
Margaret Meloni, PhD is a Theravada Buddhist practitioner, businessperson, and the author of Carpooling with Death: How living with Death will make you Stronger, Wiser and Fearless. One day, while navigating the demands of everyday life; she realized that more significant challenges were coming her way. She began to realize that the people she loved were going to die. Her mother-in-law, Lee, was in her 90s, her parents were approaching their 80s, and her husband, Ed, had already outlived his father. She had already said goodbye to others.
She began to wonder, “How can I handle losing the people I love the most?” The answer to her question came from her reliance on her Buddhist practice. Now that she has made friends with death, her goal is to help all of us to accept death as an essential part of life.
Death Dhamma is published monthly.
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We Are the Flowers in the Garden
Margaret Meloni, PhD
5 July 2021
Cultivating joy and beauty amid impermanence
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In Death, There Is Privilege
Margaret Meloni, PhD
28 May 2021
Understanding our relationship with death and using…
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Today I Will Be Happy and Sad and . . .
Margaret Meloni, PhD
4 May 2021
Emotional insight: welcoming and spending time with our…
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Let Clinging Be Your Teacher
Margaret Meloni, PhD
30 March 2021
Working with the emotions, surroundings, and more that…
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When it Comes to Grief, It’s Come as You Are
Margaret Meloni, PhD
10 March 2021
Acknowledging, accepting, embracing
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To Say Goodbye to Suffering, Learn to Say Hello to Difficult Emotions
Margaret Meloni, PhD
18 February 2021
Coming face-to-face with grief
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Can’t Sit with It? Then Walk with It!
Margaret Meloni, PhD
30 January 2021
Taking steps toward knowing our grief
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If You Want to Be Ready for Death, Train Like an Athlete
Margaret Meloni, PhD
29 December 2020
Changing our relationship with death
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Death and Equanimity
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 November 2020
Accepting death as part of the landscape of life
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The Problem with Ghosts
Margaret Meloni, PhD
31 October 2020
On the pros and cons of seeing our dead loved ones
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Grief and the Four Noble Truths
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 September 2020
On going back to the basics while grieving