Wholesome Fear: Transforming Your Anxiety about Impermanence & Death

by Kathleen McDonald, Thubten Zopa, Kathleen MacDonald

Book Overview

With the right perspective, our anxiety around sickness, old age, and death can be a "wholesome fear"--a fear with a positive quality that ultimately enriches and nourishes our lives. Lama Zopa Rinpoche shows us how we can use our anxiety as a high-octane fuel to really live what's most important. Alongside Rinpoche's teachings, Kathleen McDonald presents meditations that lead to peace, compassion, and joy for ourselves and others. Approaching our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861716302
• ISBN13: 9780861716302
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Wholesome Fear:transforming your anxiety about Impermanence and Death by Lana Zopa Rinpoche

This book is comforting and reading it is like one is sitting with Lama Zopa. I bought this as I was diagnosed with cancer, and I realized I may die. I wanted to bring some peace to my children. I had been reading Lama Zopa’s Ultimate Healing to chant for every person I met on this journey. My denial about my own impermanence and my own fear and wanting to help my children lead me to these precious book. The forward by Kathleen McDonald is beautifully and poetically written. This book brings peace