Death: Rites of Passage - Softcover

Arthur Takemoto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912624078 ISBN 13: 9780912624075

Publisher: Los Angeles: Nembutsu Press, 1986, 1986

Synopsis

A handbook on helping families with the funeral rites with practical information. Here's an excerpt: "In attentively contemplating the fleeting nature of life, nothing is more fleeting than our journey through this world. It is an all too short dream. Has anyone lived for 10,000 years? Life swiftly passes, and how many have lived for even a hundred years? "Whether I am first or whether others are first; whether it is to be today or whether it is to be tomorrow, who is to know? Those who are sent off before us are countless as the drops of dew. "Though in the morning we may be radiant with health, in the evening we may be of white ashes. When the winds of impermanence blow, our eyes are closed forever. And as we breath our last breath, our face loses its color. Our beloved ones gather and lament to no avail. The body is carried to an open field and disappears in smoke which smolders through the night, leaving only the white ashes. Is there any expression for such a sad plight? "The fragile nature of human life underlies both the young and old. We should therefore, all the sooner, turn our hearts to the singularly important matter of True Life. We should recite the Nembutsu upon having completely entrusted all that we are to the Buddha Amida. "In gratitude do we acknowledge these words..."

Edition details

• Publisher: Los Angeles: Nembutsu Press, 1986
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912624078
• ISBN 13: 9780912624075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 70