by Anne Bruce
RN PhD
The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end-of-life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist [...]
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Like dew drops
on a lotus leaf
I vanish.
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Empty-handed I entered the world
Barefoot I leave it.
My coming, my going –
Two simple happenings
That got entangled.
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Pampas grass, now dry,
once bent this way
and that.
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Coming, all is clear, no
doubt about it. Going, all is
clear, without a doubt.
What, then, is all?
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Posted in Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Inhale, exhale
Forward, back
Living, dying:
Arrows, let flown each to each
Meet midway and slice
The void in aimless flight –
Thus I return to the source.
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Posted in Death & Dying, Jisei on Sep 19th, 2008
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death
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Posted in Death & Dying on Sep 19th, 2008
“Even if I were to live on, our coming together would have to end.
All things in the world are impermanent …
Do not be troubled, for this is the nature of life!”
from the Parinirvana Sutra, the Buddha’s final teaching
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Posted in Hospice on Sep 19th, 2008
A socially-engaged Zen Buddhist organization based in Melbourne, Australia with a small-scale community hospice service, dedicated to providing practical and spiritual outreach support to those facing life’s impermanence through a life-limiting illness.
http://zen.org.au/
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Posted in Hospice on Sep 19th, 2008
http://buddhisthospicecareproject.blogspot.com/
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