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Links about mindfulness MF in / near Glasgow University

• Glasgow city Buddhist and zen centres
  • Glasgow Buddhist Centre 329 Sauchiehall Street, (Charing Cross), Glasgow, G2 3HW   Meditation, events, dropin
  • Cloud Water Zen Centre Gordon Chambers, 5th floor, 82 Mitchell street, Glasgow G1 3NA Schedule
  • Glasgow Zen Group   /   Kagyu Samye Dzong Glasgow (connection with Tibet)  
    7 Ashley Street (formerly named Rokpa House), (Woodlands), Glasgow G3 6DR   Schedule 1   Schedule 2
  • Scotland's Buddhist Vihara and Glasgow Mindfulness Centre   1 Caldercuilt Rd, (Maryhill), Glasgow G20 0AD
  • Kadampa Meditation Centre Glasgow   78 Hutcheson Street, (Merchant city), Glasgow, G1 1SH Events / schedule

• Short courses in Open Studies at Glasgow University on mindfulness.
  • Colin Flynn. Introduction to mindfulness (to mindfulness based stress reduction = MBSR). 9 week evening class from 17 April 2019. (Was also offered in Sept. 2018.)
  • Richard-Michael McCalmont. 4-day course. Mindfulness and Buddhism
• Charity by Julie Griffin
• Positive minds GU student society Colin Neave.

Supporting a mindful death     This link to iplayer was available until about 22 February 2019.
The BBC programme is titled "we need to talk about death", and presented by a doctor, Kevin Fong, on palliative care for terminally ill people, and how different it is from mainstream aggressive medicine. "Mindfulness" is barely mentioned, but at the end I realised the overall aim is to support patients in having a mindful death: freedom from pain AND from feeling too ill from "treatments" to think AND from lacking the company of people with whom to discuss it and so work out their own view. Palliative care arranges for time in which patients can come to terms with death, and work on bringing closure to their relationships. It is more often than not, out-patient: allowing patients to live at home: mentally comfortable for them and a very common wish. It also gives them the company of others in the same situation (a classic benefit); plus staff trained to have conversations about death and what it means to each particular patient -- having the conversation (another classic benefit).

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