Being with Dying : Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
ISBN: 9781590307182 | 1590307186
Edition: 1stFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Shambhala
Pub. Date: 11/17/2009
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Zen teacher Halifax emphasizes that the process of dying is a rite of passage, and can be viewed as natural and not something to be denied. Here she offers stories as well as guided exercises and contemplations to help readers meditate on death without fear.
| Foreword | p. xi |
| Introduction: Healing the Divide | p. xv |
| Uncharted Territory | p. 1 |
| A Path of Discovery: The Lucky Dark | p. 3 |
| Meditation: How Do You Want to Die? | p. 6 |
| The Heart of Meditation: Language and Silence | p. 9 |
| Meditation: Strong Back, Soft Front | p. 14 |
| Overcoming the Porcupine Effect: Moving Past Fear into Tenderness | p. 17 |
| Meditatio... MORE | p. 23 |
| The Wooden Puppet and Iron Man: Selfless Compassion, Radical Optimism | p. 25 |
| Meditation: Contemplating Our Priorities | p. 33 |
| At Home in the Infinite: Dwelling in the Boundless Abodes | p. 37 |
| Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Living and Dying | p. 45 |
| You Are Already Dying: Realizing Impermanence, Selflessness, and Freedom | p. 47 |
| Meditation: The Nine Contemplations | p. 54 |
| Giving No Fear | p. 61 |
| Fictions that Hinder and Heal: Facing Truth and Finding Meaning | p. 63 |
| Meditation: Bearing Witness to Two Truths | p. 67 |
| The Two Arrows: I Am in Pain and I Am Not Suffering | p. 71 |
| Meditation: Encountering Pain | p. 78 |
| Giving No Fear: Transforming Poison into Medicine | p. 81 |
| Meditation: Giving and Receiving through Tonglen | p. 88 |
| Take Care of Your Life, Take Care of the "World: Seeing My Own Limits with Compassion | p. 93 |
| Meditation: Boundless Caring | p. 99 |
| The Jeweled Net: Communities of Care | p. 101 |
| Meditation: The Circle of Truth | p. 107 |
| Wounded Healers: The Shadow Side of Caregiving | p. 113 |
| Meditation: Four Profound Reminders | p. 122 |
| Making a Whole Cloth | p. 125 |
| Doorways to Truth: From Fear to Liberation | p. 127 |
| Meditation: Walking Meditation | p. 133 |
| Embracing the Road: How We Remember, Assess, Express, and Find Meaning | p. 137 |
| Meditation: Letting Go through the Breath | p. 142 |
| Between Life, Between People: How We Forgive, Reconcile, Express Gratitude, and Love | p. 145 |
| Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Transforming Relationships | p. 149 |
| The Great Matter: There is Mo One Right Way | p. 151 |
| Meditation: Encountering Death | p. 159 |
| The Broken Pine Branch: Deaths of Acceptance and Liberation | p. 163 |
| Meditation: Dissolution of the Elements after Death | p. 172 |
| Gratitude for the Vessel: Care of the Body after Death | p. 179 |
| Meditation: Charnel Ground Meditation | p. 185 |
| River of Loss: The Plunge of Sorrow | p. 189 |
| Meditation: Encountering Grief | p. 195 |
| Afterword: Being One with Dying | p. 197 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 203 |
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Joan Halifax, PhD, is a Zen priest and anthropologist who has served on the faculty of Columbia University and the University of Miami School of Medicine. For the past thirty years she has worked with dying people and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Medical School, Georgetown Medical School, and many other academic institutions. In 1994, she founded the Project on Being with Dying, which has trained hundreds of healthcare professionals in the contemplative care of dying people.
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