Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition - Andrew Holecek, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche (foreword)

Andrew Holecek, Tulku Thondup Rinpoche (foreword)

Category: Self-help

Narrator: Karen White

Tags: Self-help, Spiritual & Religious

We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business. Part One shows how to prepare ones mind and how to help others, before, during, and after death. The author explains how spiritual preparation for death can completely transform our relationship to the end of life, dissolving our fear and helping us to feel open and receptive to letting go in the dying process. Daily meditation practices, the stages of dying and how to work with them, and after-death experiences are all detailed in ways that will be particularly helpful for those with an interest in Tibetan Buddhism and in Tibetan approaches to conscious dying., Part Two addresses the practical issues that surround death. Experts in grief, hospice, the funeral business, and the medical and legal