 Dear friends of the Living/Dying Project,
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful summer.
This Sunday, August 12, I will be giving a talk at the San Francisco Gay Buddhist Fellowship, 37 Bartlett Street between 21st St and 22nd St. Meditation at 10:30 AM, talk at 11:00. All are invited.
I’m editing “Gateways to Freedom”, a recent talk and guided meditation I presented at our Healing at the Edge groups that I facilitate in Sebastopol, Berkeley and Fairfax. This material will be on our website in a few days at www.livingdying.org/audio-and-video. There is space for new members in the Berkeley and Fairfax groups.
Our Open Circle program continues to offer spiritual support to clients with life-threatening illnesses in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin and Sonoma counties. Client referrals are always deeply appreciated. If you know anyone who has a life-threatening illness and wants spiritual support, please call the Living/Dying Project office at 415-456-3915.
The details of the two weekend workshops that I will be presenting in Los Angeles this October are now available. CEUs for therapists, social workers and nurses are available. For more information or to register, please contact the Living/Dying Project.
October 20 & 21
St Timothy Catholic Church
10425 W Pico Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90064
10 to 5 both Saturday and Sunday
October 27 & 28
Neighborhood Church of Pasadena
301 North Orange Grove Blvd
Pasadena CA 91103
10 to 6 on Saturday and 2 to 6 on Sunday
Withs lotsa love,
Dale Borglum
 All we need to do to receive direct help is to ask. Didn’t Christ also say: “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. Everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth”? And yet asking is what we find hardest. Many of us, I feel, hardly know how to ask. Sometimes it is because we are arrogant, sometimes because we are unwilling to seek help, sometimes because we are lazy, and sometimes because our minds are so busy with questions, distractions, and confusion that the simplicity of asking does not occur to us.
The turning point in any healing of alcoholics or drug addicts is when they admit their illness and ask for aid. In one way or another, we are all addicts of samsara ( illusion); the moment when help can come for us is when we admit our addiction and simply ask.
–Sogyal Rinpoche
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