| Description |
xix, 204 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Healing the Divide -- Pt. 1. Uncharted Territory -- 1. A Path of Discovery: The Lucky Dark -- Meditation: How Do You Want to Die? -- 2. The Heart of Meditation: Language and Silence -- Meditation: Strong Back, Soft Front -- 3. Overcoming the Porcupine Effect: Moving Past Fear into Tenderness -- Meditation: Mercy - Exchanging Self with Other -- 4. The Wooden Puppet and Iron Man: Selfless Compassion, Radical Optimism -- Meditation: Contemplating Our Priorities -- 5. At Home in the Infinite: Dwelling in the Boundless Abodes -- Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Living and Dying -- 6. You Are Already Dying: Realizing Impermanence, Selflessness, and Freedom -- Meditation: The Nine Contemplations -- Pt. 2. Giving No Fear -- 7. Fictions that Hinder and Heal: Facing Truth and Finding Meaning -- Meditation: Bearing Witness to Two Truths -- 8. The Two Arrows: I Am in Pain and I Am Not Suffering -- Meditation: Encountering Pain -- 9. Giving No Fear: Transforming Poison into Medicine -- Meditation: Giving and Receiving through Tonglen -- 10. Take Care of Your Life, Take Care of the World: Seeing My Own Limits with Compassion -- Meditation: Boundless Caring -- 11. The Jeweled Net: Communities of Care -- Meditation: The Circle of Truth -- 12. Wounded Healers: The Shadow Side of Caregiving -- Meditation: Four Profound Reminders -- Pt. 3. Making a Whole Cloth -- 13. Doorways to Truth: From Fear to Liberation -- Meditation: Walking Meditation -- 14. Embracing the Road: How We Remember, Assess, Express, and Find Meaning -- Meditation: Letting Go through the Breath -- 15. Between Life, Between People: How We Forgive, Reconcile, Express Gratitude, and Love -- Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Transforming Relationships -- 16. The Great Matter: There is No One Right Way -- Meditation: Encountering Death -- 17. The Broken Pine Branch: Deaths of Acceptance and Liberation -- Meditation: Dissolution of the Elements after Death -- 18. Gratitude for the Vessel: Care of the Body after Death -- Meditation: Charnel Ground Meditation -- 19. River of Loss: The Plunge of Sorrow -- Meditation: Encountering Grief -- Afterword: Being One with Dying |
| Summary |
Zen teacher Joan Halifax has been helping both the dying and their caregivers to face death with courage and compassion for three decades. Here, Joan offers the fruits of her work, providing comfort, inspiration, and practical skills for all those who are in the process of dying or who are charged with a dying person's care. Her teaching, based on Buddhist principles, emphasizes that we have the ability to open up to and rely on our inner strength, and we can help others who are suffering to do the same. Joan offers stories from her personal experience as well as guided exercises and contemplations to help readers meditate on death without fear, develop a commitment to helping others, and transform suffering and resistance into courage.--From publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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| LC no. |
2007042003 |
| ISBN |
9781570624698 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1570624690 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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