Being with Dying

Contemplative Practices and Teachings

By: Joan Halifax

Narrated by: Joan Halifax

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

On his deathbed Plato was asked to summarize his life's work. He replied, "Practice dying." In the 2,000 years since Plato offered this wise admonition, we have developed many practices associated with living. But what of the practices associated with dying? Being with Dying is a response to this question: an approach to death that is kind, open, and dignified and that allows us to explore the meaning of death in the experience of our own lives and through the lives of others.

Founded by Joan Halifax, Being with Dying began as a project to help health-care professionals and their patients learn to see death and know life in terms of compassion and awakening. Distilled from this influential program, the Being with Dying audio learning course combines Eastern and Western psychology, philosophy, and contemplative practices from many spiritual traditions. This innovative, hands-on approach has taught medical professionals, social workers, clergy, community activists, and spiritual seekers an elegant path for taking the fear out of the dying experience. In gently caring for the dying, we also learn to more wisely care for the living - and for life itself.

Often in our culture, life is equated with success and death with failure. Being with Dying honestly examines death and dying not in terms of medical success or failure - but as a possibility for awakening. Join Joan Halifax and learn key practices for creating a calm, mindful, sacred space where life and death are brought into the full light of awareness.

©2009 Joan Halifax (P)2009 Joan Halifax

True to the Bones

Thank you, Roshi Joan. I have listened twice and likely will listen again (and again.)

a must for hospice workers

I thought this was well layed out, more meditation than I expected. Initially I thought it would include more specific stories but ended up taking a more self preparation feel...in terms of yourself and the dying. Anyone interested I'm hospice care should definitely check it out. Joan is very well spoken, I really enjoyed her voice.

Beautiful

I loved this book. So much helpful information. Provided me much comfort in a time of need

Engaging and powerful

Love it. it's not always an easy listen but it's beautiful. I'm looking at going into hospice care as a social worker and the insights are deeply appreciated.

Not the book

This recording addresses many of the same ideas and contains some of the same material, but this is not a reading of Halifax's book of the same name.