Storied Companions: Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Karen Derris

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1614295751
Pages:	20	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner helps readers discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.

With my diagnosis of grade IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance. I am crashing into it, or it into me.

Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derrisprofessor, mother, and Buddhist practitionerturned to books.

By reading ancient Buddhist stories with new questions and a new purposefinding a way to live with her dying bodyshe discovers new ways to make them immediate and real. For instance, reading with her terminal prognosis, she becomes one of the four omens (the four signs of impermanence and suffering) the young Siddhartha sees in his excursions from the palace. What would it mean for her to be in the crowd, straining to see the prince with her own sick and impermanent bodyto be pushed aside and out of sight by the palace minders, just as our society so often tries to brush aside anything uncomfortable, but to nonetheless be seen by the young bodhisattva? Or reading as a mother, maybe she shares something akin to what Queen Maya may have felt, knowing she was dying, giving her newborn son over to her sisters care? What will it mean for her own children to be motherless? She follows the knotted threads connecting Milarepas angry, vengeful mother to Karens own mother, who physically abused her throughout a traumatic childhood. By placing herself into these stories, she turns them from distant and static narratives into companions, and from companions into guides.

Storied Companions interweaves Karens memoir of her life of trauma and illness with stories from Buddhist literary traditions, sharing with the reader how she found ways to live with the reality that she wont live as long as she wants and needs to. Honest, powerful, and insightful, Storied Companions itself becomes an invaluable companion, guiding the reader to discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence.

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