Joan Halifax Bücher

Die Zen-Meisterin und große Friedens-Aktivistin Joan Halifax hat die fünf Kerneigenschaften erforscht, die echte Charakterstärke und gelebte Spiritualität verkörpern: Altruismus, Empathie, Integrität, Respekt und Engagement. Doch werden diese Qualitäten falsch verstanden oder übertrieben, können sie auch die Ursache für persönliches und soziales Leiden sein. Deswegen ist ihre Entwicklung immer auch eine „Gratwanderung“. Es gilt, die Balance zu finden zwischen unserem eigenen Wohl und dem der anderen. Ein einfühlsames Praxisbuch, das uns verstehen lässt, wie unsere größten Herausforderungen zur wertvollsten Quelle unserer Weisheit werden können. Joan Halifax hat durch ihre Arbeit als soziale Aktivistin, Anthropologin und buddhistische Lehrerin unzählige Leben auf der ganzen Welt bereichert. Über viele Jahrzehnte hinweg hat sie auch mit Neurowissenschaftlern, Klinikern und Psychologen zusammengearbeitet, um zu verstehen, wie kontemplative Praxis ein Mittel zur persönlichen und sozialen Transformation sein kann. Ein kraftvoller Leitfaden, wie wir die Freiheit finden können, die wir für andere und für uns selbst suchen.

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 livingAand 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.

Buddhist teacher and anthropologist, Joan Halifax, delves into the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation.

Stanislav Grof, M.D., and Joan Halifax, Ph.D., have a unique authority and competence in the interpretation of the human encounter with death. Theirs is an extraordinary range of experience, in clinical research with psychedelic substances, in cross-cultural and medical anthropology, and in the analysis of Oriental and archaic literatures. Their pioneering work with psychedelics administered to individuals dying of cancer opened domains of experience that proved to be nearly identical to those already mapped in the "Books of the Dead", those mystical visionary accounts of the posthumous journeys of the soul. The Grof/Halifax book and these ancient resources both show the imminent experience of death as a continuation of what had been the hidden aspect of the experience of life.—Joseph CampbellThe authors have assisted persons dying of cancer in transcending the anxiety and anger around their personal fate. Using psychedelics, they have guided the patients to death-rebirth experiences that resemble transformation rites practiced in a variety of cultures. Physician and medical anthropologist join here in recreating an old art—the art of dying. —June SingerThe Human Encounter With Death is the latest of many recent publications in the newly evolving field of thanatology. It is, however, a quite different kind of book—one that be- longs in every library of anyone who seriously tries to understand the phenomenon we call death.—from the Foreword by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

A story for kids ages 4–8 about a young girl and her encounters with a dog that teaches her friendship, presence, loss, and bravery. This story follows a young girl named Sophie and a sweet old dog who cross paths in the midst of a storm. “Breathing in, I am safe; breathing out, I am free,” Sophie repeats again and again to remind herself and the "old one" to stay present and brave when feeling scared or unsettled. In helping each other through their fears, a deep kinship is formed that makes a lasting impact on Sophie’s life.

Buddhistický přístup ke smrti může být v paliativní péči velice užitečný, a to v jakémkoli kulturním či náboženském prostředí. Joan Halifaxová, která vychází z tradiční Buddhovy nauky a jež několik desetiletí pracuje s umírajícími lidmi a těmi, kteří o ně pečují, se o tom mnohokrát přesvědčila. Její práce je moudrou inspirací pro všechny, kteří pečují o umírajícího člověka, pro ty, kteří stojí tváří v tvář vlastní smrti, i pro ty, kteří by chtěli kontemplativně zkoumat transformativní potenciál procesu umírání. Tato kniha je potvrzením toho, že skrze otevřenost je možné objevit svoji vnitřní sílu a pomoci k tomu i těm, kteří trpí.