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Standing at the Edge

  • kayegersch
  • Dec 9, 2019
  • 1 min read
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Finding Freedom Where Fear And Courage Meet.

By Joan Halifax.

Tlhis book weaves together scientific information and Roshi Joan’s own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom.
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The specific challenges she writes about are how even the greatest virtues can become our downfall; altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement and most of all – compassion. For those who practice these ”virtues” as part of our daily life and profession, it is a wake up call that such qualities can also have a dark side. The Shadow lurks even here. Roshi Joan guides us through a thorough self-examination.I personally found this very illuminating, and an example of how we can stray off the path even while being dedicated to it. For instance, if our path requires compassion, and we give readily, what does it mean when we resent our situation? This book will help carers of all kinds, from parents, to teachers, to therapists – and end of life carers, which has been Joan Halifax’s particular dedication.

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See also “Being with Dying: cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death”, also by Joan Halifax.

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Just before Jung died in 1961 he wrote: 

"Nothing is holy any longer (CW 18 para 581 and 2). Through scientific understanding our world has become dehumanised. (Our) immediate communication with nature is gone for ever (para 585) No wonder the Western world feels uneasy, for it does not know how much...it has lost through the destruction of its numinosities. Its moral and spiritual tradition has collapsed, and has left a worldwide disorientation and dissociation."

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