Dharma in Hell: The Prison Writings of Fleet Maull by Maull Fleet

Author:Maull, Fleet [Maull, Fleet]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Prison Dharma Network
Published: 2012-06-28T03:00:00+00:00

Over time though, I found that being a Buddhist practitioner with a nontheistic, almost secular, understanding of spirituality, provided a good foundation for this kind of interfaith ministry. Buddhism has a non-dogmatic and experiential approach to life and death, and accepts the reality of impermanence. Buddhism also addresses something fundamental—an unconditional basic goodness (buddhanature) that patients easily recognize and understand.

Raul . . .

One of my hospice patients, Raul, was a Mexican national in his mid-fifties. He had recently been sent for the first time to prison, where he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in his stomach and lungs. He had been a powerful, commanding figure before falling ill—the head of two families—one in Mexico, one in the U.S. His life had fallen apart quickly and because of this he was very angry. I had a hard time connecting with Raul. I often wondered why he wanted a hospice volunteer at all. He actually had a friend on his ward, another patient, who was already fulfilling that role, so I wondered why he needed me, since he didn’t seem to want me in his world. A lack of welcoming a hospice worker was something we rarely experienced from patients in prison hospice work.

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