Storied Companions : Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives

Name: Storied Companions : Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives
Brand: Wisdom Publications,U.S.

Wisdom Publications,U.S.

A professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner helps readers discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.\n \u201CWith my diagnosis of grade IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance. I am crashing into it, or it into me.\u201D\n Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris\u2014professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner\u2014turned to books. \n By reading ancient Buddhist stories with new questions and a new purpose\u2014finding a way to live with her dying body\u2014she discovers new ways to make them immediate and real. For instance, reading with her terminal prognosis, she becomes one of the four omens (the four signs of impermanence and suffering) the young Siddhartha sees in his excursions from the palace. What would it\n\nStoried Companions\nCancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available wit;