Roshi Joan Halifax: Encountering Grief

Roshi Joan Halifax is a zen abbot and medical anthropologist. In this guided meditation, she shares nourishing wisdom as we face suffering in the world, helping us to find the inner resources to carry our own grief and sadness and that of others.
This meditation is featured in the episode “Finding Buoyancy Amidst Despair” of the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett.
-Listen at On Being: onbeing.org/programs/joan-hal...
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[@taylagardner8959]

Fantastic meditation for many circumstances of grief - not only the death or loss of someone we love but the loss of parts of ourselves, our identities.

[@TehFeelz243]

I miss my mother terribly! It's been three years but I just can't get over what happened and still find it difficult to forgive myself. I was crying from the first minute of this meditation. But I said thank you to my mother at the end of it.. I asked her earlier today for help becuase i just couldn't cope anymore.. Thank you for putting effort into making this video.

[@cindysmith6138]

Thank you. so helpful in dealing with my grief that comes and goes so quickly, just as the the sun that comes and goes on a cloudy day.

[@thewingedhussar810]

Thank you roshi and everybody who helped to share this video. I have lost both my parents this summer and I've been stuck with grief and guilt. You did help me release at least a part of the pain. I will listen to it agan and try to build up in my practice. Thank you again

[@heidiwholeandwell5914]

Sorry for your loss, both parents...must be very painful - I heard the analogy of a veld where there was a fire in a section, it is now like a pit of hard earth, with sandy areas, barren looking - and how loss is like that, the veld around that now sandy area will grow and evolve, some seeds may rest in that space as well eventually... I appreciated this analogy

[@ChocolateJewels]

Joan Halifax, you are amongst my favourite American Buddhist teachers. Thank you for being a stellar human being.

[@karenjohnson8977]

Thank you for this. Allowed me to sit in my grief and sorrow and let out emotion and just beautiful

[@heidiwholeandwell5914]

Recently, went through a loss, it is like a right of passage but nothing prepares you for it...thank you for these helpful tools

[@deerheart87]

I agree

[@heidiwholeandwell5914]

@@deerheart87 thanks

[@donnasmith6426]

Thank you - I needed this today!

[@KellyMartinSpeaks]

Thank you so much for this, so many grief meditations tell us we are in a serene place and things that are simply not true, this really spoke to the truth and helped me simply be.

[@wordsbykatarina]

thank you so very much for this

[@deborahfalgowski3459]

Thank you

[@annieb75]

Good meditation until about 2 minutes before the end when an advertisement interrupted :(

[@7bcoop2]

Ads are a great distraction, too many and in the wrong places. But the reference to the podcast is a great help and I look forward to listening to it. Thank you.

[@amberwhite8357]

RIP Tavyin Salas 1996-2021 🙏🏾🕊

[@artieash6671]

worst possible placement of an ad interruption yet!

[@lorihelmke8007]

I keep hearing people in background

[@majorontario]

This may have been great but the background "clanging and chatter" was so distracting I couldn't complete this experience.

[@PetraKDesigns]

Shame that someone keeps coughing in the background! Doesn’t help with focus.

[@CleanNOTSerene]

Thank you

[@TinaSotis]

Thank you