Preparing for Death and Helping the Dying

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46 You never think of death’s approach, Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head. — Milarepa HOW TO DIE HAPPILY AND MEANINGFULLY ‘If a person dies with the thought of benefiting others, their mind is naturally happy and this makes their death meaningful.’ — Lama Zopa Rinpoche ‘A time will never come when you are free of all activities, so everyday you have to find the opportunity.... Death is definite but the time of death is indefinite—it can strike us at any time, therefore do not procrastinate.’ — HH Dalai Lama DIE TO LIVE ‘The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breathe. We must
know death; we must die in order to live.’ — Ajahn Chah WHY HELP THE DYING? ‘The needs of a person who is experiencing death, who is at this crucial point in life, are unbelievable, and they need support.... For most people, when death is approaching they find it the hardest and most difficult time in their life. So therefore, this is the time that they really need some refuge or support.” — Lama Zopa Rinpoche To Friends of the Dying Oh you, Who have come to this place, Sisters and brothers, friends, This person is dying. She (he) has not chosen to do so. She is suffering greatly. She has no home, no friends. Falling as from a cliff, She is entering a strange forest. 47
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CONTENTS Preface To The Revised Edi
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PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION This
Page 8 and 9: INTRODUCTION Death is a subject tha
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Page 34 and 35: such as The Tibetan Book of the Dea
Page 36 and 37: Thus one of the most important skil
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Page 40 and 41: 28 Sogyal Rinpoche says (p.213): Al
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Page 44 and 45: their religious beliefs and practic
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Page 48 and 49: spiritual instructions. Among the p
Page 50 and 51: 38 CONCLUSION I hope that the ideas
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Page 54 and 55: person you love whom you want to fo
Page 56 and 57: 44 NOTES 1. Gary Zukav, The Dancing
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Page 62 and 63: 50 RECOMMENDED READING BUDDHIST TEA
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