Facing Death, Impermanence and Climate Change
I took the class Facing Death, Impermanence and Climate Change from August 17th to September 7th through Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley . You can find information on death mediation on the teacher's, Nick Boutros, website Northampton Psychotherapy Contemplating Death & Climate Change Project . I think it's been this year, 2020, that has focused my mind on the idea of death. To be fair, I've thought a lot about death throughout my life. One of my earliest memories is bursting into tears as a toddler because I had gotten lost in the imaginings of what death must be like and scared myself. I think 2020 has heightened these fears. Death is a heavy and low lying cloud hanging all around us these days. Currently there are fires burning all throughout the west coast. Police violence, gun violence, natural disasters, Covid-19, all these things permeate my news feed daily. Death is all around me. Death will eventually come for me. The thought has woken me up in t...