Living in the Light of Death

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Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive
By: Rosenberg, Larry

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Author: Rosenberg, Larry
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1570624259

Product Code: 10693

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Growing older, getting sick, and dying are tough subjects we usually like to avoid - even if we've admitted to ourselves that they're inevitable. The Buddhist practice of maranasati, or death awareness, helps us to confront these hard realities head-on, as a paticularly powerful means of liberating ourselves from the attachments that cause us to suffer.
This book is the fruit of Larry Rosenberg's years of practicing and teaching death awareness. Using a text known as the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, he shows how intimacy with aging and mortality can be a means to liberation: when we become profoundly intimate with ourselves, with others, indeed with all things.

Living in the Light of Death, Larry Rosenberg, Shambhala Publications, $22.95

Larry Rosenberg, founder and resident teacher of the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the most prominent trachers of Insight Meditation in America. He leads classes and retreats nationwide.

Acknowledgments xi

A Note on Terminology xiii

Introduction: Aging and Death, Our Lifelong Companions 1

The First Messenger: Aging Is Unavoidable 21

The Second Messenger: Illness Is Unavoidable 48

The Third Messenger: Death Is Unavoidable 78

The Fourth Messenger: Heirs to Our Actions 122

The Practice: Intimacy with Living and Dying 141

Meditation and the Practice of Awareness 165

Glossary 171

Bibliography 173

Resources 175

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