Passion and Compassion
with Dr. Dale Borglum
Friday, February 23,
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Compassion, literally with passion, is at the heart of the caregiving process and is the essence of all great religions. Without compassion, contact with suffering will eventually lead to burnout. With compassion, our open heart meets suffering, the suffering within each or us and the suffering that is all around each of us. This movement is the movement from contraction to spaciousness, from judgment to connectedness and requires all of our passion. How alive are we willing to be? In our culture, compassion for self is mostly ignored and compassion for others is confused with pity. We don’t have to be Mother Teresa to find joy in working with suffering. We are all caregivers. There is a joy that goes beyond happiness and sadness, wellness and illness, even beyond life and death. Compassion is our true nature. Life becomes incredibly simple when we experience this truth.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
–H. H, the Dalai Lama
Dr. Borglum visits Bozeman to give the keynote address at the Gallatin Valley Circle of Compassion symposium “Mountains of Courage” on the following day.
About Dr. Borglum
Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center.
He has taught and lectured extensively on the topics of spiritual support for those with life-threatening illness, on caregiving as a spiritual practice, and on healing at the edge, the edge of illness, of death, of loss, of crisis. Dale has a BS from UC Berkeley and a PhD from Stanford University. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation for the past 35 years.
He has intensively immersed himself in the practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer for over forty years, studying with many of the greatest masters of the last century. Dale has taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Rev. Wayne Muller, and many others. His life’s work and passion has been and continues to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and also using our mortality as an inspiration for spiritual awakening.
Links
For more on the Living/Dying Project, click here.
Click here for more about the Mountains of Courage Conference
offered by the Gallatin Valley Circle of Compassion (GVCC)