Kodo Conlin is a Dharma teacher and Soto Zen priest based in the Santa Cruz Mountains, California. He teaches in the Insight tradition of Theravāda Buddhism and the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, supporting others on the Buddhist path of liberation. He has spent much of his adult life living and practicing in monasteries and Dharma centers, including Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. With equal passions for meditation and the Pāli suttas, Kodo delights in close readings of the ancient texts as practice instructions. He co-edited Warm Hand to Warm Hand, a collection of Insight essays, and currently serves as co-Managing Director at Insight Retreat Center. More at kodoconlin.com
Moving aside from the notions of a good death or a bad death, we consider an exquisite death. The power of an encounter with mortality can set our lives in motion. How would we like to be companions for ourselves? In this talk we hear stories that changed Kodo's understanding of mortality, and how the Buddha accompanied the ill and dying.
