The Book on Solace

The Book on Solace

by BÃÂÂ Yin RÃÂÂ
The Book on Solace

The Book on Solace

by BÃÂÂ Yin RÃÂÂ

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Overview

This book considers the experience of grief, bereavement, and despair from the perspective of our timeless life, from which all physical ordeals and pains appear in a profoundly different light. While not denying the reality of suffering and anguish in the sphere of mortal life, the book explains why grief and sorrow have no basis for existence in the dimension of the Spirit's light. That is to say, all grief is strictly limited to physical mortality, is subject to the law of time, and an inevitable consequence of life in earthly form. All grief, however, can be borne and overcome by seeing it in its true nature: as a defect inherent in our mortal life. Thus, it even can be turned to our benefit; for it may reawaken and intensify our inner life.

The Kober Press's translations of the books of Bô Yin Râ are the only English translations authorized by the Kober Verlag, Switzerland. The Kober Verlag publishes the books of Bô Yin Râ in the original German and has protected their integrity since Bô Yin Râ's lifetime.

Contents: On Grief and Finding Solace. Lessons One Can Learn from Grief. On Follies to Avoid. On the Comforting Virtue of Work. On Solace in Bereavement.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780915034055
Publisher: Kober Press
Publication date: 10/05/2000
Pages: 108
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.26(d)

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You feel abandoned to their vengeance, a helpless victim at the mercy of a power that forces you to suffer, owing to some hidden law that human understanding cannot grasp.

Tightly fettered by the bonds of ancient speculation, your mind in vain attempts to find a “sinful” deed,  some “wrong” you have committed, as “punishment” for which you might explain the harm that has befallen you.

With this idea, however, you entrap yourself already in a first insidious delusion; for there is nowhere any such “avenger” having power, as imagined by that blind belief of ancient days, to mete out “penance” for your “guilt.”

To be sure, each action in itself contains its inescapably determined consequence, and no one ever shall be able to evade the repercussions of his deeds. However, you may also be afflicted by suffering and grievous pain that certainly did not result from anything you might have done.

  Do not yourself make grief that you must suffer even worse by harboring tormenting thoughts, in the erroneous belief that, if you could but trace the cause of your distress to something you have done, your anguish might be lessened.

Table of Contents

On grief and Finding Solace
Lessons One can Learn from Grief
On Follies to Avoid
On the Comforting Virtue of Work
On Solace in Bereavement
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