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Life doesn't always serve us exactly what we want. Sometimes it offers pain, confusion, and sorrow. There's no way to stop those circumstances, nor to stop the difficult emotions that might arise alongside them. This week, Frank Ostaseski offers a meditation to investigate all of the circumstances of our lives with curiosity, and that can help us welcome everything that comes, or at least allow it. When we allow what is to simply be, we relieve ourselves of the suffering that can get heaped on top of our moments of difficulty. That extra suffering is optional, even if the difficult causes and conditions are not.

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Frank Ostaseski, Author at Mindful 

Zen Hospice Project 

Metta Institute

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Coming Undone But Not Unmade

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In this episode of Real Mindful, we pick up this remarkable conversation between old friends as Frank Ostaseski talks about the nature of our minds and how a useful comparison can be the ocean and its waves. After suffering from five strokes over two years, Frank shares how his mindfulness practice provided him with comfort during this difficult time and shares how letting go of his need to return to normal helped him focus on discovery rather than recovery.

Show Notes:

Listen to the first part of this conversation here: ​​Lean In to Love with Frank Ostaseski - Mindful 

Find more from Frank Ostaseski here:

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

Zen Hospice Project

A 12-Minute Meditation to Welcome Everything

“Lean In to Love” from the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine

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February issue of Mindful magazine: Welcome Everything

The 12 Minute Meditation practice podcast

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Frank Ostaseski is a well-known and much-loved teacher of meditation, mindfulness, and compassionate service. In the past two years, he’s suffered five strokes that affected his brain’s capacity and as many aspects of daily life became more difficult, Frank found strength and refuge in love, compassion, and curiosity. He also found his practice still very much alive through the whole experience—and his ability to communicate the nuance of what we discover when we welcome everything remains intact. In this remarkable conversation between old friends, Frank shares some of what he learned and leaned on with our founding editor Barry Boyce. We’ll bring you this conversation in two parts over the next two episodes of Real Mindful.

Show Notes

Find more from Frank Ostaseski here:

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

Zen Hospice Project

A 12-Minute Meditation to Welcome Everything

“Lean Into Love” from the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine

And more from Mindful here:

February issue of Mindful magazine: Welcome Everything

More Real Mindful podcast episodes

The 12 Minute Meditation practice podcast

And don’t forget to let us know what you thought by emailing yourwords@mindful.org.

This week, Frank Ostaseski leads a practice to welcome everything. And we hear you—there’s a lot going on that you may not feel like welcoming right now. To welcome something doesn't mean we have to like it, and it doesn't mean we have to agree with it; it just means we have to be willing to meet it. In this practice which you can also find in the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine, Frank Ostaseski offers six steps to open up to the present moment—whatever it may bring.

Show Notes:

Lean Into Love: An Interview with Frank Ostaseski

How to Bookend Your Day with Compassion

The Metta Institute

Check out the February 2022 issue of Mindful magazine 

And find more from Mindful at mindful.org and on our conversation podcast, Real Mindful. Let us know what you thought of this episode of 12 Minute Meditation by leaving a review or by emailing yourwords@mindful.org.

Compassion and empathy fatigue are real things that can affect us in a myriad of ways. Barry Boyce talks to Frank Ostaseski, who has seen a lot of death and pain in his work of helping people who are dying. Frank shares how he came to a place where he could help others in difficult situations without taking on their pain as his own—a skill that became essential for his well-being. 

Together they navigate dealing with death, fear, and grief with compassion and openness. 

Show notes: Frank Ostaseski is a meditation teacher who cofounded the Zen Hospice Project. In 2004, he went on to create the Metta Institute to provide innovative educational programs and professional training to foster compassionate, mindfulness-based care.