Grief can feel endless — looping, heavy, and hard to escape — especially when losses can’t be fixed. As we will all experience loss at some point, I thought I’d explore how to grieve without getting stuck. If we can pull ourselves out of rumination, we can carry our grief in a larger field of love, wisdom, and all that is still good in the world.
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Talk: Finding a Way Forward through Grief
Timecodes & main topics:
- 00:00–04:40 — Five Buddhist reflections on loss
- 04:41–09:15 — Living “exposed to the golden wind”
- 10:41–12:24 — Why grief is normal (and suppression makes it worse)
- 12:24–18:16 — How rumination keeps grief stuck
- 18:16–20:46 — Filling life with what is not grieving
- 20:46–25:01 — Carrying wounds into love
- 25:01–29:37 — Giving yourself permission to turn a corner
- 29:37–41:00 — Absolution, interdependence, and self-release
A Meditation: Resting in Open Awareness
This meditation is an invitation to come home — to step out of busyness, worry, and striving, and rest in the present moment. Through open awareness, you’ll soften around thoughts and sensations, widen attention, and settle into a deep sense of ease, spaciousness, and simply being, with nothing to fix or manage.
