Once or twice a year the abbot at the San Francisco Zen Center, Tenshin Reb Anderson, comes to speak with the hospice volunteers.  

One night he gave a talk that included the best advice I’ve ever heard on caregiving.

 He said simply, “Stay close and do nothing.”

 That’s how we try to practice at Zen Hospice Project.

We stay close and do nothing. We sit still and listen to the stories.

Frank Ostaseski