This pack of three books includes "Zen Cancer Wisdom: Tips for Making Each Day Better" by Daju Suzanne Friedman, "How to be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers" by Toni Bernhard and "Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved" edited by Jonathan S. Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu.

Zen Cancer Wisdon: Tips for Making Each Day Better ~ Daju Suzanne Friedman

With a much-needed sense of levity, Daju Suzanne Friedman teaches the art of keeping one¿s body, mind, and spirit together while living with cancer.

In Zen Cancer Wisdom, Daju Suzanne Friedman¿Zen teacher, Chinese medicine doctor, and Qigong specialist shares the inspirations, insights, and humor that helped her to continue to live fully in the face of cancer.  With sections devoted to soothing the spirit, harnessing the mind, nourishing the body, and qigong stretches for soothing aches and pains, Friedman provides thoughtful guidance on topics ranging from hair loss and constipation to coping with stress and learning to laugh again.  Each chapter begins with an anecdote drawn from the Zen tradition, followed by personal reflection, and a brief guided practice specifically for cancer patients.  Pocket-sized, with short, buoyant chapters, and meditation exercises designed to be practicable anywhere in only a few minutes time, Zen Cancer Wisdom is the perfect companion book for cancer patients.

How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers ~ Toni Bernhard

This life-affirming, instructive, and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is or who might one day be sick. It can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplifting inspiration to family, friends, and loved ones struggling with the many terrifying or disheartening life changes that come so close on the heels of a diagnosis of a chronic condition or life-threatening illness.  Authentic and graceful, How to be Sick reminds us of our endless inner freedom, even under high degrees of suffering and pain. 

The author, who became ill while a university law professor in the prime of her career, tells the reader how she got sick and, to her and her partner's bewilderment, stayed that way.  Toni had been a longtime meditator, going on long meditation retreats and spending many hours rigorously practicing, but soon discovered that she simply could no longer engage in those difficult and taxing forms.  She had to learn ways to make "being sick" the heart of her spiritual practice¿and through truly learning how to be sick, she learned how, even with many physical and energetic limitations, to live a life of equanimity, compassion, and joy.  And whether we ourselves are ill or not, we can learn these vital arts from Bernhard's generous wisdom in How to Be Sick.

Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved ~ S. Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death¿and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades, Buddhist chaplains and caregivers all over the world have been drawing on this tradition to contribute greatly to the development of modern palliative and hospice care in the secular world at large. Specifically Buddhist hospice programs have been further developing and applying traditional Buddhist practices of preparing for death, attending the dying, and comforting the bereaved.

Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved contains comprehensive overviews of the best of such initiatives, drawn from diverse Buddhist traditions, and written by practitioners who embody the best of contemporary Buddhist hospice care programs practiced all over the world today.

Contributors include Carl B. Becker, Moichiro Hayashi, Yozo Taniyama, Mari Sengoku, Phaisan Visalo, Beth Kanji Goldring, Caroline Prasada Brazier, Joan Jiko Halifax, and Julie Chijo Hanada.