Dignified passing

Title: Dignified passing

Author: Sushila Blackman

Binding: Hardcover

EAN: 9789063255633

Condition: Good

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Description:
In the beautiful Indian epic Mahabharata, the sage Yudhisthira is asked: What is the most amazing thing in life? Yudhisthira answers: that a man, who regularly sees others die, never thinks that he will die.

Two thousand years later, the vast majority of us still do not face the reality of our own death. We are more afraid of the question of how we will die than of the fact that we will die; preventing suffering and pain occupies us more than confronting the meaning of death. In all times and all traditions there have been enlightened spirits who lived in full awareness of their finitude. These men and women died as they lived: in simplicity, dignity and compassion. With the utmost love they showed us that the farewell to this existence is not a terrifying end, but the merging of a raindrop with the boundless ocean. Dignified Departure tells in the form of anecdotes, conversation fragments and quotes about the wisdom, grace and liberating witticisms with which Tibetan, Zen Buddhist and Hindu masters ended their lives. It enriches and inspires all those who take the questions about their life and their death seriously.