Making Friends with Death by Judith L Lief

Making Friends with Death by Judith L Lief

Drawing fromThe Tibetan Book of the Dead, a Buddhist teacher "provides readers with the essential guidepost for embarking on the journey of life and the journey beyond" (Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing)

InMaking Friends with Death,Buddhist teacher Judith Lief, who's drawn her inspiration from theTibetan Book of the Dead,shows us that through the powerful combination of contemplation of death and mindfulness practice, we can change how we relate to death, enhance our appreciation of everyday life, and use our developing acceptance of our own vulnerability as a basis for opening to others. She also offers a series of guidelines to help us reconnect with dying persons, whether they are friends or family, clients or patients.

Lief highlights the value of relating to the immediacy of death as an ongoing aspect of everyday life by offering readers a variety of practical methods that they can apply to their lives and work. These methods include-

.Simple mindfulness exercises for deepening awareness of moment-by-moment change
.Practices for cultivating loving-kindness
.Helpful slogans and guidelines for caregivers to use

Making Friends with Deathwill enlighten anyone interested in coming to terms with their own mortality. More specifically, the contemplative approach presented here offers health professionals, students of death and dying, and people who are helping a dying friend or relative useful guidance and inspiration. It will show them how to ground their actions in awareness and compassion, so that the steps they take in dealing with pain and suffering will be more effective.

Judith Lief is an acharya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage of Chü¾¦˜¼gyam Trungpa.

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ISBN 13	9781570623325
ISBN 10	1570623325
Titel	Making Friends with Death
Autor	Judith L Lief
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Shambhala Publications Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-02-13
Seitenanzahl	208
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