How to Face Death without Fear
1st Edition
Published on 23. June 2020
440 pages
978-1-61429-688-1 (ISBN)
Description
A renowned Tibetan lama's guidance for supporting your loved ones through death and for dying without fear yourself.
"Helping our loved ones at the time of death is the best service we can offer them, our greatest gift. Why? Because death is the most important time of life: it's at death that the next rebirth is determined."-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
For years Lama Zopa Rinpoche envisioned a practical book to inform students of how to help loved ones have a beneficial death. How to Face Death without Fear has been compiled from years of Rinpoche's teachings and has been lovingly edited by Venerable Robina Courtin.
Rinpoche provides detailed advice on how to help your loved ones prepare for the end of their life with courage, acceptance, and a mind free of fear. With great care, he explains what to do in the months, weeks, and days before death, how to handle the moment itself, what to do after the breath has stopped, and finally, what to do after the mind has left the body. Rinpoche provides the mantras, prayers, and meditations appropriate for each stage. This new edition of Rinpoche's modern classic How to Enjoy Death makes it easy for the reader to find the right practice at the right time.
This handbook is an essential reference for Tibetan Buddhist caregivers, hospice workers, and chaplains. But, as Rinpoche points out, it is not only for people who work with the dying; it is education we all need.
You'll find solace in this wealth of advice, and you'll also gain the confidence to ensure that your loved one's death-and your own-will be joyful and meaningful.
"Helping our loved ones at the time of death is the best service we can offer them, our greatest gift. Why? Because death is the most important time of life: it's at death that the next rebirth is determined."-Lama Zopa Rinpoche
For years Lama Zopa Rinpoche envisioned a practical book to inform students of how to help loved ones have a beneficial death. How to Face Death without Fear has been compiled from years of Rinpoche's teachings and has been lovingly edited by Venerable Robina Courtin.
Rinpoche provides detailed advice on how to help your loved ones prepare for the end of their life with courage, acceptance, and a mind free of fear. With great care, he explains what to do in the months, weeks, and days before death, how to handle the moment itself, what to do after the breath has stopped, and finally, what to do after the mind has left the body. Rinpoche provides the mantras, prayers, and meditations appropriate for each stage. This new edition of Rinpoche's modern classic How to Enjoy Death makes it easy for the reader to find the right practice at the right time.
This handbook is an essential reference for Tibetan Buddhist caregivers, hospice workers, and chaplains. But, as Rinpoche points out, it is not only for people who work with the dying; it is education we all need.
You'll find solace in this wealth of advice, and you'll also gain the confidence to ensure that your loved one's death-and your own-will be joyful and meaningful.
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche is one of the most internationally renowned masters of Tibetan Buddhism, working and teaching ceaselessly on almost every continent. He is the spiritual director and cofounder of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT), an international network of Buddhist projects, including monasteries in six countries and meditation centers in over thirty; health and nutrition clinics, and clinics specializing in the treatment of leprosy and polio; as well as hospices, schools, publishing activities, and prison outreach projects worldwide.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Editor's Preface: How to Use This Book
- Introduction: We Must Prepare for Death
- Part One: How to Think about Death and Reincarnation
- 1. What Happens after Death?
- 2. Everyone Dies, So There's No Need to Be Afraid
- 3. Death Is Easy When We've Given Up Attachment
- 4. Get Ready for Death by Living Life with a Good Heart
- 5. The Best Way to Live and Die: Practice the Five Powers
- 6. Pray to Be Reborn in Amitabha Buddha's Pure Land
- Part Two: How We Go from One Life to the Next
- 7. What Happens at Death?
- 8. The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising at the Time of Death
- 9. The Stages of Death, Intermediate State, and Rebirth
- 10. Death Is What the Yogis Have Been Waiting For
- Part Three: Practices to Do in the Months and Weeks before Death
- 11. Helping Others at the Time of Death Is a Big Responsibility
- 12. Create a Conducive Environment for a Peaceful Death
- 13. The Practices: What to See and Touch
- 14. The Practices: What to Think About
- 15. The Practices: What to Hear
- 16. The Practices: What to Meditate On
- 17. The Practices: What to Do to Purify Negative Karma
- 18. Finally, What to Do in the Hours before Death
- Part Four: Practices to Do in the Hours and Days after the Breath Has Stopped
- 19. The Practices: What to Do as Soon as the Breath Stops
- 20. The Practices: If Your Loved One Is at Home when They Die
- 21. The Practices: If Your Loved One Is in the Hospital when They Die
- 22. The Practices: If Your Loved One Has Offered Their Organs
- 23. The Practices: If Your Loved One Dies Suddenly
- 24. If Your Loved One Has High Realizations and Is Meditating at the Time of Death
- 25. Make Sure the Mind Has Left the Body before You Move It
- Part Five: Practices to Do after the Mind Has Left the Body
- 26. How to Prepare Your Loved One's Body for Cremation or Burial
- 27. The Funeral Service
- 28. How to Bless Your Loved One's Ashes and Include Them in Holy Objects
- 29. Practices to Do During the Forty-Nine Days after the Mind Has Left the Body
- Part Six: The Practices in Numerical Order
- Hospice Services
- Picture Credits
- Glossary
- Index of Practices by Category and Their Numbers
- Copyright
