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Published on: 2016-06-18
Released on: 2016-06-18
Original language: English

Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred• Reveals how being conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning, inviting the reader to contemplate life in the light of their own death• Examines the author’s experience of ancestor worship in his native China and the beliefs that underlie it• Explains how death is a transition in a longer living process not visible from the modern “black and white” view of life and death• Translated by award-winning translator Jody GladdingBorn from intimate discussions with friends, these five meditations on death from poet-philosopher François Cheng examine the multiple ways the prospect of death significantly shapes life and is, in fact, what makes life meaningful and sacred.Written at the age of 84, in the twilight of life, these meditations each approach the human understanding of death from different yet intertwined perspectives, effortlessly returning to certain themes and ideas, questioning them again more deeply with each passing. The author shows that death is a transition in a longer living process not visible from the modern “black and white” view of life and death. He examines his experience of ancestor worship in his native China and the beliefs that underlies it: Our ancestors are alive in another form, that what is living can never die and what is dead has never lived. Cheng looks at the consequences of a world that has abandoned the sacred and avoids the mention of death, a world now blindly staggering through the chaos it has created, yet which can return to balance if we once again embrace the essential sacredness of life as well as death.Throughout these five heart-baring meditations, Cheng invites us to contemplate life in the light of our own death. He reveals that to be conscious of death gives our fate its full meaning. Our death is an integral part of our great adventure in becoming. For if birth is a seed, then death is the fruit--the final sacred product of a life well lived. eBooks dhammatalks.org Books. More information on the various eBook formats is available on the eBook faq page. To share the link (url) to an eBook right click the book cover and choose ... The Internet Classics Archive Apology by Plato Apology by Plato part of the Internet Classics Archive ... Commentary: Quite a few comments have been posted about Apology. Download: A 58k text-only version is ... Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Reviews Discussion ... Marcus Aurelius must have been a prolific reader. He sure was a prolific note-taker for these meditations are surely his study-notes(?- after all he was a ... The meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Philaletheians Marcus Aurelius' Meditations - tr. Casaubon v. 8.16 uploaded to philaletheians.co.uk 14 July 2013 Page 1 of 128 The meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations: Marcus Aurelius: 9781503280465: : Books Meditations by Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly and take care that you ... The Basics - The shivah and other mourning observances ... I. Phases of Mourning. There are five stages to the mourning process: 1) Aninut pre-burial mourning. 2-3) Shivah a seven day period following the burial; within the ... Selected Titles from the Buddhist Publication Society The following titles from the Buddhist Publication Society are currently available on Access to Insight. Printed copies of these titles that are still in print may be ... Meditations - Wikipedia The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus's life. Each book is not in chronological order and it was written for no one but ... Life After Death--A First Hand Report! - Soul Answer THROUGH THE LIGHT . Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in1982. He was dead for over an hour and ... Communion Meditations Meditations used at the Lord's Table plus occasional reflections on texts related to the Lord's Supper.
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