Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781594732522

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by Gordan Peerman (Author)

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.

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A thoughtful, down-to-earth look at helpful ways to lessen human 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 sufferingand teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.

The practices help you:

[[ Loosen the grip of suffering

[[ Engage and question limiting views, thoughts and opinions

[[ Deconstruct ten common assumptions

[[ Be present in each moment

[[ Survive emotional storms

[[ Develop peaceful communication skills

[[ Deepen communication with your partner

[[ Appreciate mortality and the

preciousness of life

[[ Cultivate compassion

As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of sufferingstories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerableand you will learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.

Number of Pages: 210

Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: August 01, 2008

$19.81

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