The five invitations

discovering what death can teach us about living fully

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290 pages

English language

Published July 29, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-250-07465-2
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OCLC Number:
970395887

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4 stars (1 review)

"Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. [This book is a] meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves ... [Zen Hospice Project cofounder Frank Ostaseski] distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering ... [a] guide that points to a radical path to transformation"--

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reviewed The five invitations by Frank Ostaseski

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4 stars

Peaceful and challenging, intimate remembrances of accompanying death in hospice. Buddhist-inflected facing and embracing dying as a way of living, this has that common medium-distance-immediacy of broad and somewhat indistinct advice while sharing extremely sharp and practical experience.

Subjects

  • Buddhism
  • Death