Storied Companions: Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives Derris Karen
Storied Companions: Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives Derris Karen A professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner helps readers discover new ways of facing and…
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Storied Companions: Cancer, Trauma, and Discovering Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives Derris Karen
A professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner helps readers discover new ways of facing and experiencing life, death, and impermanence. I am crashing into it, or it into me."Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris--professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner--turned to books.By reading ancient Buddhist stories with new questions and a new purpose--finding a way to live with her dying body--she discovers new ways to make them immediate and real. "With my diagnosis of grade IV brain cancer, I no longer observe the truth of impermanence from a critical, analytical distance.
What would it mean for her to be in the crowd, straining to see the prince with her own sick and 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.