How to Die Professionally

with Drubpon Pema Rigdzin

In person, at Dhumatala, and Online

235 Washington Avenue, Point Richmond, CA 94801

10 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Time

For the duration of your lifespan, contemplate impermanence and death at all times. Without a doubt, you will accomplish something very meaningful.

Autobiography of Dudjom Lingpa

(Artist: Pema Tsehring Tintin)

As in life itself, death is an ongoing progression and transition—one that can be approached with awareness, preparation, and presence.

This daylong program will offer an introduction to the Vajrayāna understanding of the end-of-life process and the methods traditionally put into practice to arrive at the threshold of transition with clarity, certainty, and ease.

The first part of the day is designed to introduce the relative aspects that support end-of-life care in both personal and communal settings, ethical sensibilities, preparedness, and contemplative foundations. Emphasis will be given to practical guidance, with open questions and conversations on how to overcome our fears and prepare with confidence.

The second part of the day will delve deeper into the wisdom methods and practices in the Vajrayāna tradition that prepare us to die professionally.

From beginningless time, throughout the succession of one life to the next, there has not been actual birth, but merely the appearance of birth. There has never been an actual death but only a transition of phenomenal appearances, just like the shift from a dream state to a waking state.

Dudjom Lingpa, Nang Jang