The Buddha's Parinirvana -- and Us!

Endless Path Zendo | Roshi Rafe Martin - A podcast by Roshi Rafe Martin - Saturdays

Recorded February 15, 2025. “Let’s be honest: Death is our greatest difficulty. Accepting it and, for lack of a better word, doing it, are our most severe challenges, fraught with deepest anxiety and trauma. All challenges and difficulties in life seem to stem from or circle around this primal one of awesome finality. To face head-on what, as Shakespeare wrote, “... ends this strange eventful history ... Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything,” (As You Like It), can be terribly ha...