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Being With Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Halifax, Joan
Byock, Ira (FRW)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Zen teacher Joan Halifax’s Project on Being with Dying has been helping both the dying and their caregivers to face death with courage and compassion since 1994, but her work with the contemplative approach to the dying process goes back much further than that. Here, Joan offers the fruits of her three decades of work with the dying, 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. She notes that all of us will ultimately have to deal with the loss of parents and loved ones and that most of us are largely unprepared emotionally for their deaths. She says that the process of dying is a rite of passage, and can be viewed as natural and not something to be denied.

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. She says, “Why wait until we are actually dying to explore what it may mean to die with awareness?”

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1570624690
Dewey Decimal: 616/.029
Library of Congress: 2007042003
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 204

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