Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering
"This book takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering - and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others." As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering - stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable - and you will, learn how to release...
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"This book takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering - and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others." As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering - stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable - and you will, learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.
Introduction1 Big Mind, Big Medicine 12 The Cry for Help 273 Beyond Belief 494 Quiet Ambition 655 An Instrument of Peace 796 Meeting Our Edges 1017 Beginning Anew 1218 The Dharma of Dying 1379 Mobile Loaves and Fishes 153Afterword 168Glossary 173Suggested Resources 175Acknowledgments 179Credits 182
