{"id":24816,"date":"2025-12-23T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=24816"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T06:33:17","slug":"frank-ostaseki-im-allergic-to-the-notion-of-a-good-death","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/podcast\/frank-ostaseki-im-allergic-to-the-notion-of-a-good-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ostaseki: \u201cI\u2019m Allergic to the Notion of a Good Death\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-24816-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PD07777W_IATE_Ostaseki-FINAL.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PD07777W_IATE_Ostaseki-FINAL.mp3\">https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PD07777W_IATE_Ostaseki-FINAL.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What truly matters when we face the end of life? After decades of sitting at the bedside of hundreds of dying people, Frank Ostaseski has distilled the deepest human concerns into two essential questions: Am I loved? Have I loved well?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights at the Edge<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Tami welcomes Frank Ostaseski\u2014co-founder of America\u2019s first Buddhist hospice, the Zen Hospice Project, founder of the Metta Institute, and author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Frank brings extraordinary wisdom from his pioneering work in compassionate end-of-life care, along with profound personal insights from his own encounters with heart surgery, strokes, and the transformative vulnerability of being \u201con the other side of the sheets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Join Tami and Frank to explore:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The two essential questions that arise when facing death\u2014and what they reveal about living fully now <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why emotional flexibility is the true condition for healing and transformation <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to meet our own fear and pain without abandoning ourselves or others <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The practice of \u201callowing\u201d as a path to both wisdom and compassion <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happens in the dying process: surrender, reconstitution, and coming home <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Frank is allergic to the notion of a \u201cgood death\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The indestructible love that emerges when we keep our hearts open through pain <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to practice dying by paying attention to everyday endings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This conversation is for anyone grappling with loss, change, or the fundamental questions of existence\u2014offering not prescriptive answers, but the profound medicine of honest presence and the recognition that our vulnerability itself is one of our most beautiful human qualities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more with Frank Ostaseski:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frankostaseski.com\/event\/a-year-to-live-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Year to Live Course<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upaya.org\/program\/the-spirit-of-service-online-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spirit of Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Upaya Zen Center)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upaya.org\/program\/awareness-in-action-meeting-the-world-with-life-giving-hands-actualizing-unfaltering-engaged-practice-in-our-time-love-with-frank-ostaseski-and-sharon-salzberg-online-december-14-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Awareness in Action: The Role of Love<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Upaya Zen Center, Frank Ostaseski &amp; Sharon Salzberg)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conversation offers genuine transmission\u2014not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/join.soundstrue.com\/?_gl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sounds True One<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24844,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[392,1085,386],"tags":[170],"contributor":[],"class_list":["post-24816","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-healing","category-personal-growth","category-spirituality","tag-insights-at-the-edge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Frank Ostaseki: \u201cI\u2019m Allergic to the Notion of a Good Death\u201d | Sounds True<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frank Ostaseki: \u201cI\u2019m Allergic to the Notion of a Good Death\u201d | Sounds True\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What truly matters when we face the end of life? 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