Being with dying : cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death, Joan Halifax ; foreword by Ira Byock, (electronic resource)

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Label: Being with dying : cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death, Joan Halifax ; foreword by Ira Byock, (electronic resource)

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Statement of responsibility: Joan Halifax ; foreword by Ira Byock

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Being with dying : cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death

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Boston, Shambhala, 2008

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2
185
19
River of Loss: The Plunge of Sorrow
189
Meditation: Encountering Grief
195
Heart of Meditation: Language and Silence
9
Meditation: Strong Back, Soft Front
14
3
Overcoming the Porcupine Effect: Moving Past Fear into Tenderness
17
Meditation: Mercy-Exchanging Self with Other
23
Part 1
4
Wooden Puppet and Iron Man: Selfless Compassion, Radical Optimism
25
Meditation: Contemplating Our Priorities
33
5
At Home in the Infinite: Dwelling in the Boundless Abodes
37
Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Living and Dying
45
Uncharted Territory
6
You Are Already Dying: Realizing Impermanence, Selflessness, and Freedom
47
Meditation: The Nine Contemplations
54
Part 2
Giving No Fear
61
7
Fictions that Hinder and Heal: Facing Truth and Finding Meaning
1
63
Meditation: Bearing Witness to Two Truths
67
8
Two Arrows: I Am in Pain and I Am Not Suffering
71
Meditation: Encountering Pain
78
9
Giving No Fear: Transforming Poison into Medicine
1
81
Meditation: Giving and Receiving through Tonglen
88
10
Take Care of Your Life, Take Care of the "World: Seeing My Own Limits with Compassion
93
Meditation: Boundless Caring
99
11
Jeweled Net: Communities of Care
A Path of Discovery: The Lucky Dark
101
Meditation: The Circle of Truth
107
12
Wounded Healers: The Shadow Side of Caregiving
113
Meditation: Four Profound Reminders
122
Part 3
Making a Whole Cloth
3
125
13
Doorways to Truth: From Fear to Liberation
127
Meditation: Walking Meditation
133
14
Embracing the Road: How We Remember, Assess, Express, and Find Meaning
137
Meditation: Letting Go through the Breath
Meditation: How Do You Want to Die?
142
15
Between Life, Between People: How We Forgive, Reconcile, Express Gratitude, and Love
145
Meditation: Boundless Abodes for Transforming Relationships
149
16
Great Matter: There is Mo One Right Way
151
Meditation: Encountering Death
6
159
17
Broken Pine Branch: Deaths of Acceptance and Liberation
163
Meditation: Dissolution of the Elements after Death
172
18
Gratitude for the Vessel: Care of the Body after Death
179
Meditation: Charnel Ground Meditation

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