Eyes Wide Open
What dying can teach us about living
A Benefit for Stone Creek Zen Center
Sunday, November 2, 2025 | 4:00 – 6:30 PM
(Doors open at 3:00 PM for tea and socializing)
Glaser Center | 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA
If you’ve been grappling with questions about aging, what truly matters, or how to meet life’s uncertainties with an open heart, this special gathering offers a space for reflection, connection, and insight.
Join two of contemporary Buddhism’s most trusted voices, Frank Ostaseski and Wendy Johnson, for an afternoon of guided meditation, shared ritual, and teachings grounded in the Five Remembrances.
The Five Remembrances invite us to honor who and what truly matters in this one precious life, to listen from the heart, and to draw on the wisdom of compassionate practice and the life lessons gathered in accompanying the dying.
We’ll explore how to live awake throughout the stages of life as we and those we love grow older. We’ll learn how to meet changes in our health and relationships, experience loss, and face the inevitability of death with clarity and compassion.
These recollections wake us up to living with eyes wide open as we meet the challenges in our personal lives, and in our world.
Please join us as we come together in community for a very special gathering. All are welcome.