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:

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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

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