--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Peter <drpetersutphen@> > wrote: > > --- Rick Archer <fairfieldlife@> > > wrote: > > > > > From a friend. Anyone know the answer to this?: > > > > > > I've heard that there is some phrase that helps > > > someone passing on.....that > > > is to be whispered to them as they pass. Do you > > > know of this? > > > > > > Looks like we will be leaving for () tonight as my > > > husband�s dad won't be > > > around much longer....maybe not even 24 hours. > > > > > > I don't think I can do a puja there but I remember > > > someone somewhere > > > telling me about this phrase. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > This is just "sorcerer's apprentice" nonsense. Be > > authentically present with the person and finish-up > > anything that's not complete with them. Let them know > > you love them by both your verbal and non-verbal > > presence. > > And maybe pick up a copy of Chris Moore's "A Dirty > Job" to read on the way there and while there. Chris > has said that his biggest influence while writing > the book was sitting with a couple of people close > to him while they were dying. > > Unless you're one of the rare people on the planet > trained to work with the dying and give them instruc- > tions that actually help during the Bardo transit, > it's probably best to just try to convey a sense of > non-fear about the impending adventure and a sense > that it *is* an adventure. IMO, of course. >
Unless you're trained as a cleric in some religion or another that has specific instructions about what clerics should say/do while in the presence of dying. Shall I quote Roger Zelazny's Possibly Proper Litany to you? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
