Ep. 444 Contemplative Practices for Death and Grief with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison

End-of-Life University

Learn about contemplative practices for medical providers offered by the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

My guest Koshin Paley Ellison is an author, Zen teacher, and Jungian psychotherapist. He co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which offers contemplative approaches to care through education, personal caregiving, and Zen practice. Koshin is also the co-editor of Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End of Life Care. He discusses his work with people who are dying and grieving and the life lessons he has learned. For more information visit the website:

zencare.org

Get the book here

YouTube Channel

Listen here:

This episode includes:

• Awake at the Bedside as a tool for caregivers and death professionals
• Lessons learned during the AIDS epidemic
• Koshin’s experience caring for his grandmother at the end of her life
• The importance of curiosity in life and at the end of it
• The lack of contemplative practice in Western medicine
• Daily question: Am I actually living according to my values?
• NY Zen Center’s Contemplative Medicine Fellowship
• The importance of understand suffering and how to be with it
• How the mystery of life is actually part of the medicine of life

Links mentioned in this episode:

• NY Zen Center’s Contemplative Medicine Fellowship
• NEW Gift Guides for Caregivers, People Receiving Care, and People Who are Grieving
• Get my two new books!! Stories from the Dark Night and The Tao of Death
• Get EOLU Podcast Merch here
• Conversations on Death with ChatGPT – Audiobook here; Print Book here
• Leave me a message by email: [e-mail], Twitter, Facebook or Instagram
• Support your local bookstore by buying my books on Bookshop and Indiebound: 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying and The Journey from Ego to Soul
• Subscribe to this podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Stitcher Radio
• Check out the Series I’ve recorded in the past here
• Join the team at Patreon.com/eolu and receive free gifts like the “Mind if we talk about death?” mini-poster or Love Your Life sticker or coffee mug. PLUS get our regular bonuses: the monthly EOL News Update, monthly What to Watch recommendations, Behind the Scenes Bonus content, and automatic access to A Year of Reading Dangerously!
• Buy me a coffee
• Donate on Paypal

If you enjoy this content please share it with others and consider leaving a review on iTunes. Thanks again to all supporters on my page at Patreon.com/eolu, especially my newest donors Michelle Wickum and Robin Bissell. Also thank you to everyone who has bought me a coffee or joined the $10 for 10 Years Campaign! Your contributions make all the difference and ensure this podcast stays ad-free.