Sitting With Death:

Buddhist Insights to Help You Face Your Fears and Live a Peaceful Life

Struggling to cope with an impending loss or recent bereavement? Discover a blend of commonsense and spiritual practices that restore peace. 

Afraid of facing your end? Do you have a loved one or relative approaching their last days? Worried you or those close to you won’t be able to handle the grief? Author and longtime Buddhist Margaret Meloni, PhD spent years applying the practice to transform her fear of losing dear ones and reframe death as a friendly companion. Now she’s here to share the powerful wisdom that can aid you in your darkest moment of need. 

Sitting with Death: Buddhist Insights to Help You Face Your Fears and Live a Peaceful Life is a collection of common themes from twelve accomplished teachers showing the practical methods for dealing with nature’s inevitable plan. Following the traditional teachings of the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path, Meloni lays out the myriad ways you can learn to come to terms with such a momentous finality. And by soaking up the depth of loving knowledge provided, you’ll gain clarity and closure on the way back to joy.

In Sitting with Death, you’ll discover:

  • Reflections on encounters with mortality through real experience, enabling you to prepare emotionally
  • Ways to embrace the power of impermanence as part of living your life to its fullest
  • How to feel more at peace even through the discomfort, so that beginnings, middles, and ends are equally celebrated
  • Techniques for going beyond fear and anxiety, accepting sadness, and finding serenity
  • Methods for helping others through suffering, enlightened mindsets, and much, much more!

Sitting with Death is a gentle and warm guide to confronting life’s greatest unknown. If you like honest and heartfelt conversations, real-world examples, and liberating philosophies, then you’ll greatly appreciate Margaret Meloni’s compassionate resource.

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About the Author: Margaret Meloni

I’ve been there and it can feel overwhelming. There came a point in my life where I began to realize that the people I loved were going to start dying. My mother-in-law was in her nineties, my parents were approaching their eighties, and my husband had already outlived his father. I had already said goodbye to others. How could I handle losing the people who I loved the most? I started to think that death was stalking me. But as I learned to accept that the Grim Reaper was just doing his job, I began to accept him as part of my network. I found a way to make friends with death. Click here and learn more about Margaret and her journey as an author.

As my loved ones started to die, I knew that death is nothing personal and I opened my heart to death. So can you.

This book will help you use Buddhist teachings to include death in your own spiritual practice. In bringing curiosity and an open heart, you can train for the death of your loved ones and, as a result, you will live more fully, with more compassion for others, and more peace for yourself.

What People Are Saying

"With her big heart of compassion, cracked open by the deaths of her husband, father and mother, Margaret encourages us to use death as a life coach. I’m touched by her unfailing commitment to kind understanding and love in the face of our ultimate destiny."
Trudy Goodman
PhD, Founder, InsightLA
"Margaret Meloni invites the reader into a conversation with twelve Buddhist meditation teachers on the many faces of death. She intermingles passages from Buddhist scripture with insights from experienced contemplative practitioners, active in the field of death and dying. "
Judith L Lief
author of Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality

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