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Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering by Gordon Peerman β€” book cover

Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering

by Gordon Peerman
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Overview

"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 suffering - and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others." As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering - stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable - and you will, learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.

Synopsis

"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 suffering - and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others." As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering - stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable - and you will, learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.

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Book Details

Published
September 1, 2008
Publisher
Skylight Paths Publishing
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781594732522

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