azw3 |eng | 2001-02-13 | Author:Judith L. Lief

12 Compassion COMPASSION IS INHERENT in our very nature as human beings. It is natural to us. We do not need to create it. Cultivating compassion does not mean injecting ...

azw3 |eng | 2003-03-03 | Author:Robert Desjarlais

One was your father's [and Rinjin Lama's] mother. Then along with her was my mother-in-law [Wangel Lama's mother]. She [the woman who left] was my cousin. Then, she left me ...

azw3 |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Anyen Rinpoche

▶ The second metaphor depicts the consciousness as a traveler. The meaning of this metaphor is that our consciousness isn’t always going to be in the same body or in ...

azw3 |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Tam, Shek-wing [Tam, Shek-wing]

CHAPTER 13 Threefold Space and the Four Liberations–The Bardo of Meditation THE THIRD BARDO TEACHING is the bardo of meditation, known as natural liberation of awareness. The experience of natural ...

epub | | | Author:Atul Gawande

epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Arnold, Catharine [Arnold, Catharine]

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-06 | Author:Frances Larson [Larson, Frances]

In Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, a man’s head is kept in a church as a relic, but he is not a saint. Simon Sudbury’s head may well have ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Caitlin Doughty

ALAS, POOR YORICK There are many words a woman in love longs to hear. “I’ll love you forever, darling,” and “Will it be a diamond this year?” are two fine ...

epub |eng | 2009-11-23 | Author:Harold Schechter [Schechter, Harold]

Early Christian catacombs. The most notorious of these early European burial spots was Paris’s Cimitière des Innocents—the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents—a sprawling mass graveyard in the heart of the ...

epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Lia Purpura [Purpura, Lia]

Here, my students and I are reading Virginia Woolf, who worked in Mac’s London, right through the war, this very same war, on her own piece, “A Sketch of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Butler, Katy [Butler, Katy]

What if we are fully successful in the purpose of our gathering? Will we devoutly wish for a new risk factor to call into play as we see memory slipping ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Caitlin Doughty [Doughty, Caitlin]

The chamber is composed of ceramic or other material which disintegrates slightly during each cremation and the product of that disintegration is commingled with the cremated remains. . . . ...

epub |eng | 2001-11-29 | Author:Parish, James Robert [Parish, James Robert]

Tyrone Power [Tyrone Power Jr.] May 5, 1913–November 15, 1958 Tyrone Power’s frequent costar, Alice Faye, said it all: “He was the best-looking thing I’ve ever seen in my life. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Atul Gawande [Gawande, Atul]

6 • Letting Go Before I began to think about what awaits my older patients—people very much like Lou Sanders and the others—I’d never ventured beyond my surgical office to ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Sheri Fink [Fink, Sheri]

SPECIAL AGENT Virginia Rider harbored a similar moral outrage. What had happened at Memorial was wrong. It was as basic as the tenets of her Catholic religion, but she wasn’t ...