Human Longing and the Search for Meaning
Forces Unseen: What Shapes Our Daily Lives • 1h 24m
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Acharya Judith Lief provides a Buddhist guide to encountering mortality.
Lief is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been leading workshops on a contemplative approach to death and dying, and on the teachings of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, since 1976. She is also a founding member of The Contemplative Alliance, an affiliate of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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