MeiMei Fox
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can… door Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski is a cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and offers his wisdom about how we can live more fully knowing we will die. He thoroughly processes each of the five invitations and shares many examples of clients he has worked with at the zen center. So many stories pulled my heart strings and taught me so much about caring for the dying and how I can live better. I already want to read this book again. There’s so much to absorb and process. I love how this book encourages me to inwardly reflect and face a topic I have struggled with. Frank narrates the audiobook; his voice and inflections are so calming and soothing.… (meer)
A inspiring invitation to embrace life at the moment, its beauty and ugliness without judgement. A book that will come back off the shelf to help guide me and give me courage when I feel too fearful, too disconnected, or too lonely.
Six-word review: Impermanence enables life. Awareness reveals impermanence.
A deeply inspiring wisdom teaching on death and life as inseparable aspects of one process, through which we can learn to be present for our own experience and know its meaning. The five invitations that give the book its structure offer a taste:
• Don't wait.
• Welcome everything, push away nothing.
• Bring your whole self to the experience.
• Find a place of rest in the middle of things.
• Cultivate don't know mind.
The breadth and profundity of this labor of love are belied by its simple, straightforward language and down-to-earth stories. The author's understanding is rooted in Zen Buddhism, and revealed by it, not befogged by it, and also in painful and beauty-finding personal history. Ostaseski is one of those remarkable individuals who have managed to transform personal suffering into healing wisdom. I took copious notes in my journal as a way of internalizing the insights. I might have transcribed the whole book by hand without superfluity. This is one to come back to, again and again, in order to learn how to learn more.
Frank Ostaseski has dedicated his life to the work of supporting those who have come to their own close encounter with death. He was co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project, which began in San Francisco in 1987, at the height of the AIDs crisis. After thirty years of caring and devoted assisting of terminal patients with the work of dying, the project closed down in 2018 because of lack of sufficient funding. Frank brought his experience with thousands of patients to this book, a sharing of life's great truths.… (meer)
A deeply inspiring wisdom teaching on death and life as inseparable aspects of one process, through which we can learn to be present for our own experience and know its meaning. The five invitations that give the book its structure offer a taste:
• Don't wait.
• Welcome everything, push away nothing.
• Bring your whole self to the experience.
• Find a place of rest in the middle of things.
• Cultivate don't know mind.
The breadth and profundity of this labor of love are belied by its simple, straightforward language and down-to-earth stories. The author's understanding is rooted in Zen Buddhism, and revealed by it, not befogged by it, and also in painful and beauty-finding personal history. Ostaseski is one of those remarkable individuals who have managed to transform personal suffering into healing wisdom. I took copious notes in my journal as a way of internalizing the insights. I might have transcribed the whole book by hand without superfluity. This is one to come back to, again and again, in order to learn how to learn more.
Frank Ostaseski has dedicated his life to the work of supporting those who have come to their own close encounter with death. He was co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project, which began in San Francisco in 1987, at the height of the AIDs crisis. After thirty years of caring and devoted assisting of terminal patients with the work of dying, the project closed down in 2018 because of lack of sufficient funding. Frank brought his experience with thousands of patients to this book, a sharing of life's great truths.… (meer)
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Meredy | 6 andere besprekingen | May 2, 2021 |
Meredy | 6 andere besprekingen | May 2, 2021 | The subtitle captures the essence of the book: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.
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