The Arts Of Contemplative Care

Author : Cheryl A Giles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861716647
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Contemplative Care written by Cheryl A Giles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and life-affirming, this watershed volume brings together the voices of pioneers in the filed of Buddhist contemplative care--from hospice and hospitals to colleges, prisons, and the military. Each first-person essay offers a distillation of the wisdom gained over years of experience, and vividly shows the lived experience of each pastoral worker. The stories told here are sure to inspire--whether you are a professional caregiver or are simply called to serve through caregiving. Quite, simply, this is a book that can change lives. (book jacket).

Author : Cheryl A Giles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614290377
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arts of Contemplative Care written by Cheryl A Giles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and life-affirming, this watershed volume brings together the voices of pioneers in the field of contemplative care--from hospice and hospitals to colleges, prisons, and the military. Illustrating the day-to-day words and actions of pastoral workers, each first-person essay in this collection offers a distillation of the wisdom gained over years of compassionate experience. The stories told here are sure to inspire--whether you are a professional caregiver or simply feel inclined toward guiding, healing, and comforting roles. If you are inspired to read this book, or even one touching story in it, you just might find yourself inspired to change a life.

Author : Koshin Paley Ellison
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1614291195
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Awake at the Bedside written by Koshin Paley Ellison and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Awake at the Bedside, pioneers of palliative and end-of-life care as well as doctors, chaplains, caregivers and even poets offer wisdom that will challenge, uplift, comfort--and change the way we think about death. Equal parts instruction manual and spiritual testimony, it includes specific instructions and personal accounts to inspire, counsel, and teach."--Amazon.com.

Author : Michael A. Franklin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464347
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art as Contemplative Practice written by Michael A. Franklin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions including yoga, rasa and darshan experiences, imaginal intelligence, and the contemplative instincts of select early twentieth-century artists. From this synthesis, Franklin suggests that we treat art as a form of yoga and meditation with the potential to awaken deeper insight into the fundamental nature of the Self. Exercises and rubrics are included that offer accessible instruction for any artist, meditation or yoga practitioner, art educator, or art therapist.

Author : Juliet Benner
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083544X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemplative Vision written by Juliet Benner and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Docent Juliet Benner began showing people how to meditate on Christian art treasures, which led to her much-beloved "O Taste and See" columns from the spiritual formation journal Conversations, now expanded into this book. In each chapter you'll encounter a passage of Scripture and a corresponding piece of art to lead you in a new experience of prayer in God's presence.

Author : Stephen Batchelor
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300252277
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Solitude written by Stephen Batchelor and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of social distancing and isolation, a meditation on the beauty of solitude from renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor “Whatever a soul is, the author goes a long way toward soothing it. A very welcome instance of philosophy that can help readers live a good life.”—Kirkus Reviews “Elegant and formally ingenious.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal When world renowned Buddhist writer Stephen Batchelor turned sixty, he took a sabbatical from his teaching and turned his attention to solitude, a practice integral to the meditative traditions he has long studied and taught. He aimed to venture more deeply into solitude, discovering its full extent and depth. This beautiful literary collage documents his multifaceted explorations. Spending time in remote places, appreciating and making art, practicing meditation and participating in retreats, drinking peyote and ayahuasca, and training himself to keep an open, questioning mind have all contributed to Batchelor’s ability to be simultaneously alone and at ease. Mixed in with his personal narrative are inspiring stories from solitude’s devoted practitioners, from the Buddha to Montaigne, from Vermeer to Agnes Martin. In a hyperconnected world that is at the same time plagued by social isolation, this book shows how to enjoy the inescapable solitude that is at the heart of human life.

Author : Taranatha
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
ISBN 13 : 8186470379
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essence of Ambrosia written by Taranatha and published by Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essence of Ambrosia is a guide to Buddhist meditation, composed by the prolific and eclectic Tibetan scholar and practitioner Taranatha (1575-1634). Following the lead of Atisha, Taranatha expounds a graduated approach (known as lam rim) to cognitive and meditative development designed to address the needs of three types of person: the person of lesser, average and greater capacity. Taranatha's innovative contribution to this genre is to instruct the student in "contemplation sessions", that specifically guide a beginning Buddhist practitioner through the traditional practices of meditation, beginning with devotional reflection up to the apex of Buddhist meditation, insight (vipassana) meditation. The result is a remarkably accessible and concise insider's guide to the Mahayana Buddhist path.

Author : Jill L. Snodgrass
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506499449
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference written by Jill L. Snodgrass and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is witnessing a rise in the religiously unaffiliated. Participation in traditional religious settings is in decline. But everyone inhabits a location relative to religion, whether or not they practice or identify with a religious tradition. People engage in religious encounters and relationships in myriad ways, and their religious location is one part of their intersecting identities. This shifting religious landscape challenges spiritual caregivers to provide competent care and counsel that honors how persons' religious locations intersect. Jill Snodgrass argues that without a theoretical understanding of religious location, chaplains, counselors, and other spiritual caregivers are left without sufficient tools to navigate this relational terrain. In The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference, she gathers practices and insights from experienced spiritual caregivers and scholars to explore the concept of religious location--a term initially coined by pastoral theologian Kathleen Greider--as an aspect of an individual's intersecting identity. Snodgrass presents a compilation of essays that help spiritual caregivers think reflexively about their own religious locations and how these locations influence relational dynamics with care seekers within a diversity of cultural contexts. This vigorous compilation advances the fields of pastoral and practical theology as well as spiritual care and counseling by developing a robust, interreligious theory of religious difference grounded in insights from Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam. As such, The Art of Spiritual Care across Religious Difference presents a well-timed resource for the training of religiously competent caregivers to serve in hospitals, prisons, places of worship, community mental health centers, offices of campus ministry, and more. Scholars and practitioners will quickly discover that this book will serve as an enduring resource to meet the training needs for spiritual caregivers in ways that will help them to build enduring competencies.

Author : Cheryl A. Giles
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611808650
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and Buddhist written by Cheryl A. Giles and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With contributions by Acharya Gaylon Ferguson, Cheryl A. Giles, Gyōzan Royce Andrew Johnson, Ruth King, Kamilah Majied, Lama Rod Owens, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips, Sebene Selassie, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde. What does it mean to be Black and Buddhist? In this powerful collection of writings, African American teachers from all the major Buddhist traditions tell their stories of how race and Buddhist practice have intersected in their lives. The resulting explorations display not only the promise of Buddhist teachings to empower those facing racial discrimination but also the way that Black Buddhist voices are enriching the Dharma for all practitioners. As the first anthology comprised solely of writings by African-descended Buddhist practitioners, this book is an important contribution to the development of the Dharma in the West.

Author : Padmasiri De Silva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137287551
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology and Counselling written by Padmasiri De Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, now in its fifth edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to Buddhist psychology and counselling, exploring key concepts in psychology and practical applications in mindfulness-based counselling techniques using Buddhist philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics and contemplative methods.