In this dialogue CCARE’s founder and director, Dr. James Doty, will ask Roshi Joan Halifax about his life’s work and what role compassion may have played. For more information about CCARE, visit: ccare.stanford.edu/
I've recently started my own funeral directing service. I find the content of this discussion deeply in alignment with our practice. Thank you for this invaluable work!
Damn. What an incredible discussion. Her grounded insights cut through so much bs. And the ways she holds space for his emotions - as well as his discomfort with his emotions - is superb. She has a quality of "weightedness" that communicates through. Best interview and discussion I've seen in quite some time, thank you.
i feel a sense of sadness for dr. doty, that he feels he cannot "do this very often" while doing his job as a neurosurgeon. he's being deeply moved by a deeply moving circumstance. more doctors (and more humans, in general) need more of that.
Great interview! But to " just show up" in the prison is to skillfully remain present in that density. It's an exercise in becoming more permeable. And maintaining that state makes a difference. I guess Joan means one can't be attached to a pictured ideal outcome, but if it were not making a difference vibrationally to herself and the prisoners, I can't imagine Joan going there 3x's a week for 6 years. Buddhists sometimes seem feel compelled to say: no self, no outcome, no satisfaction. But eve
