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NOTES 4133. Kalu Rinpoche, <strong>The</strong> Dharma, 38.4. See, for example, the Dalai Lama, et at, MindScience: An East-West Dialogue (Boston: Wisdom, 1991).5. Renée Weber, ed., Dialogues with Scientists <strong>and</strong> Sages: <strong>The</strong> Searchfor Unity (London: Routledge <strong>and</strong> Kegan Paul, 1986), 93-94.6. Weber, Scientists <strong>and</strong> Sages, 48.7. David Bohm, Unfolding Meaning A Weekend <strong>of</strong> Dialogue withDavid Bohm (London: Ark, 1987), 73.8. Bohm, Unfolding Meaning 90-91.9. Paavo Pylkkänen, ed., <strong>The</strong> Search for Meaning (Wellingborough:Crucible, 1989), 51; David Bohm, Unfolding Meaning 93.10. David Bohm, Wholeness <strong>and</strong> the Implicate Order (London: Ark1988), xi.11. Bohm, Unfolding Meaning 107, 96.22. SERVANTS OF PEACE1. Thomas Merton, <strong>The</strong> Wisdom <strong>of</strong> the Desert (New York NewDirections, 1960), 11.APPENDIX 2: QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH1.I have asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dilgo KhyentseRinpoche, <strong>and</strong> other masters a number <strong>of</strong> questions about death <strong>and</strong>dying, including issues such as life support <strong>and</strong> euthanasia, <strong>and</strong>throughout this chapter I shall quote some <strong>of</strong> their replies. I hope topublish their answers in detail in the future.2. Melvin Morse, Closer to the Light (New York: Villard <strong>Book</strong>s,1990), 72.3. Gallup poll cited in Newsweek, August 26, 1991, p. 41.4. Kalu Rinpoche, <strong>The</strong> Gem Ornament (Ithaca, NY Snow Hon,1986), 194.5. In Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Questions on Death <strong>and</strong> <strong>Dying</strong> (NewYork: Macmillan, 1974), 84.6. Dame Cicely Saunders in "A Commitment to Care," Raft, <strong>The</strong>Journal <strong>of</strong> the Buddhist Hospice Trust, 2, Winter 1989/90, London, p. 10.7. Kalu Rinpoche, <strong>The</strong> Gem Ornament, 194.APPENDIX 4: TWO MANTRAS1. <strong>The</strong>re are three negative activities <strong>of</strong> the body: taking life, stealing,<strong>and</strong> sexual misconduct; four <strong>of</strong> the speech: lies, harsh words,sl<strong>and</strong>er, <strong>and</strong> gossip; <strong>and</strong> three <strong>of</strong> the mind: avarice, malice, <strong>and</strong> wrongviews.2. Nadi, prana, <strong>and</strong> bindu in Sanskrit; tsa, lung <strong>and</strong> tiklé in <strong>Tibetan</strong>.See Chapter 15, "<strong>The</strong> Process <strong>of</strong> <strong>Dying</strong>."

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