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Five Meditations on Death - In Other Words . . . On Life (Paperback)
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Five Meditations on Death - In Other Words . . . On Life (Paperback)
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Born from intimate discussions with friends, these five meditations
on death from poet-philosopher Francois Cheng examine the multiple
ways the prospect of death significantly shapes life and is, in
fact, what makes life meaningful and sacred. The author shows that
death is a transition in a longer living process not visible from
the modern "black and white" view of life and death. He examines
his experience of ancestor worship in his native China and the
beliefs that underlies it: Our ancestors are alive in another form,
that what is living can never die and what is dead has never lived.
Cheng looks at the consequences of a world that has abandoned the
sacred and avoids the mention of death, a world now blindly
staggering through the chaos it has created, yet which can return
to balance if we once again embrace the essential sacredness of
life as well as death. Throughout these five heart-baring
meditations, Cheng invites us to contemplate life in the light of
our own death. He reveals that to be conscious of death gives our
fate its full meaning. Our death is an integral part of our great
adventure in becoming. For if birth is a seed, then death is the
fruit--the final sacred product of a life well lived.
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