The Intimacy of Death and Dying: Simple guidance to help you through
approach the moment of death with a mind filled with loving kindness and filled with the wish to abide, without distraction, in the experience of the horizonless radiance which she was about to enter.
Gyurme Dorje • Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: Ancient Knowledge for a Modern World from the Tibetan Book of the Dead
It is an incredible privilege to be with someone who is making this journey into the eternal world. When you are present at the sacrament of someone’s death, you should be very mindful of their situation. In other words, you should not concentrate so much on your own grief. You should rather strive to be fully present to, with and for the person wh
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Most people don’t have to think about death too much, and as a consequence some of the wisdom of the dying is lost. As people approach the end, they often don’t care what they accomplished or how people view them—the results of a life are dust in the wind. They care about the hands held, the memories, and the emotions along the way—the process of a
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THE MESSAGE OF IMPERMANENCE: WHAT HOPE THERE IS IN DEATH
Sogyal Rinpoche • The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic from One of the Foremost Interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West
Working with the dying is like facing a polished and fierce mirror of your own reality. You see in it the stark face of your own panic and of your terror of pain. If you don’t look at and accept that face of panic and fear in yourself, how will you be able to bear it in the person in front of you?
Sogyal Rinpoche • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
