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Frank Ostaseski



Frank Ostaseski is an American Buddhist teacher, author, and cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, the first Buddhist hospice in America. He is the founder of the Metta Institute, which provides training and education in mindful and compassionate end-of-life care. He speaks, teaches and writes on mindfulness and contemplative care of the dying.

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Death as an Advisor: What Death Can Teach Us About Life | Frank Ostaseski, Ondrea Levine, Soren Gordhamer

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What the Living Can Learn from the Dying

Sean Illing and Frank Ostaseski discuss what Ostaseski has learned from the conversations he’s had with the dying.

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Fearless Compassion in the Face of Violence

The willingness to face suffering can give rise to compassion.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSpiritual practice helps us settle into the utter simplicity of being ourselves. The healing that it engenders happens when we bring awareness to the places that have hardened in us through the conditioned habits of grasping, resistance, and avoidance.

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Frank Ostaseski: The Five Invitations—What Death Can Teach Us About Living

TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with Frank Ostaseski—Buddhist teacher, international lecturer, and a leading voice in contemplative end-of-life care—about his new book: The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.

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Finding Space to Love, Trust and Rest

Meditation teacher Frank Ostaseski reflects on the relationship between recovery and mindfulness following a stroke.

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Turn Toward Suffering—Frank Ostaseski (Founder, Metta Institute)

Compassion develops by turning toward suffering. Metta Institute End of Life Practitioner Program.

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Embracing the Mystery

The Mystery we encounter in being with dying is unlike those Agatha Christie novels you might enjoy on a summer’s beach. It is not about finding a solution.

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Poetry & the End of Life—Frank Ostaseski, Pioneering Hospice Founder and End of Life Educator

“Poetry and the End of Life” event on December 5, 2013. The end of a life is not solitary: it is our shared fate, a through-passing universally experienced, witnessed, and attended.

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Because I Am Human, I Am Enough

A lesson in the power of love and simple human presence.

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