Although hospitals focus on healing, health care professionals are often called to serve patients facing death. Venerable Zen Master Miao Tsan explains and illustrates how utilizing the Buddhist concept of impermanence can enable medical personnel to acknowledge that death is not a failure, but rather, the inevitable end of the physical body and the suffering inherent in each stage of life.

Acceptance of this point of view opens the door for real compassion and loving kindness and provides deeper connection between patients and the medical community, greater peace for the dying, and a path to assuage the grief of patients' families and loved ones.

Lunch will be offered to the first 100 in attendance. The lecture will take place in Room JJL 400.