Five Meditations on Death : In Other Words . . . On Life
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1620554941
ISBN-13
9781620554944
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2016
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
188 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.00 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Popular philosophyMind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation
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Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred
Born 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. 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.
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