Death Dhamma Podcast
Open and honest discussions with wise and skillful teachers about their experiences with life, death, and Buddhism. If you wonder how others on the path have dealt with death and dying and grief, be sure to listen in. Everyone has a story, a perspective, and a valuable lesson to share. Embrace death, live a full life, and learn to love impermanence because nobody gets out of this alive.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 17 minutes
- Episodes
- 110
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Cayce Howe: Insights into Attachment and Compassion Fatigue
In this episode of the Death Dhamma podcast, host Margaret Meloni, interviews Cayce Howe, a Dharma teacher and co-founder of Sustainable Caring. They discuss the topic of attachment, which is a key c…
Letting Go of Constructed Selves: From Margaret’s Attachment Journal
In this episode of the Death Dhamma podcast, Margaret Meloni explores the concept of attachment, clinging, and aversion. She asks listeners to consider how they define themselves and whether they wil…
Exploring the Relationship Between Self and Suffering
You can find lots of discussions in terms of self-versus no self and what the Buddha really taught and what the Buddha really meant. I am staying away from going into an in-depth discussion of these…
Mary Stancavage: A Story of Letting Go
If you and I look at what makes us uncomfortable, that discomfort will show us where attachment lives. It could be things or ideas. Today with the help of Mary Stancavage we look at the should of sel…
Learning to Embrace Discomfort: On Journaling Aversion
I looked around the room, and there I saw him. Someone I had once worked with, a person who I felt had been purposefully difficult and disrespectful. I found myself thinking, “Ugh, why is he here?” A…
Why Anger and Aversion Might Not Be So Different: Insights from Buddhist Teachings
With attachment, we are only trying to get things that we want. And once we have those things, we don’t want them to go away.
When we experience aversion, we push away (usually aggressively) the thin…
Venerable Dr. De Hong: Childhood Trauma and Aversion to Self
When your own parents do not offer you love and support, how do you come to a place of self-acceptance? If you go to school, bloody from being beaten, isn't reasonable to expect someone/anyone to ask…
Journaling to Uncover Craving and Clinging in Everyday Life
What is the difference between craving and clinging? Craving is wanting. I want something.
Looking back on the past few days, here are some of the things I have craved:
Coffee, chocolate and other sp…
Unraveling Attachment: Exploring the Buddhist Teachings on Letting Go
In our last episode, Dr. Seth Segall reminded us that when it comes to attachment, it is not about never having close human relationships. What are the teachings on attachment?
Today, we look at some…
Dr. Seth Zuihō Segall: The Myth of the Unattached Path
There was once a man who gave away his children in order to prove that he could master letting go. When his wife returned home, she thought his approach made sense. But does it?
What is it we attach …