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DEATH & DYING WORKSHOP WITH GREGG RUSKUSHY & PATTY WINTER

“Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death
is because we do not know who we are.”
   ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

March 21, 2010 ~ 9am – 4:30 pm
DEATH & DYING WORKSHOP with Gregg Ruskusky & Patty Winter
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DEATH & DYING WORKSHOP OVERVIEW We are often taught by our teachers to look into this sense of self.  Who am I?  Without some sense of this answer we enter into our dying with fear and trepidation.  What we worked so hard for, what we carefully saved, all this must go.  What then? Death is all around us, in large and small ways.  Do we dare to move toward it for the benefit of ourselves and others, or do we turn away in the hope that we will be better prepared another day? 

During this day we will look into this great matter of life and death.  Combining practical considerations and the ancient wisdom of the Dharma, we will try to discover our true relationship to mortality, and life, and to this sense of “self.”

With meditation and mindfulness as a basis, we will create space together to look into the larger questions of how we live, and how we die.  We will look into obstacles that prevent us from stepping more fully into this life and toward death.  The role of grief, the need to be present to our own suffering and that of others will direct us toward be a companion to those facing their death.  The day will include some short writing exercises and small group inquiry as well as lecture and periods of meditation.

ABOUT THE TEACHERS

Gregg Ruskusky has taught “Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying” workshops at Tushita Meditation Center in Dharamsala, as well as worked with volunteers at Land of Medicine Buddha on Advanced Health Care Directives and “being with the dying”.  He was as trained formally at Zen Hospice Project and in the year long “End of Life Practioner” Program at the Metta Institute and spent some time at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and Destitute volunteering.  Also actively involved in the ongoing activities of the Metta Institute,  Gregg is a cancer survivor and cared for his parents in the last year of their lives.  He has completed several Lam Rim retreats at Kopan Monastery, and continues to practice the Dharma.

Patty Winter served as a hospice RN for 12 years and a Grief Counselor for 4 years.  She presently teaches Grief and Loss workshops for in-home health providers.   Patty also is a teacher and consultant for the Metta Institute and a teacher at Tai Chi in Portland . A caregiver to both her parents in their dying, Patty is an ordained Zen Buddhist practioner.