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Contents	Page
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
How Everything Changed
1 - Getting Sick: A Romantic Trip to Paris	p. 1
2 - Staying Sick: This Can't Be Happening to Me	p. 9
Accepting Pain
3 - The Buddha Tells It Like It Is	p. 21
4 - The Universal Law of Impermanence	p. 27
5 - Who Is Sick?	p. 37
Finding Joy and Love
6 - Finding Joy in the Life You Can No Longer Lead	p. 45
7 - Soothing the Body, Mind, and Heart	p. 51
8 - Using Compassion to Alleviate Your Suffering	p. 57
9 - Facing the Ups and Downs of Chronic Illness with Equanimity	p. 73
Turnarounds and Transformations
10 - Getting Off the Wheel of Suffering	p. 89
11 - Tonglen: Spinning Straw into Gold	p. 97
12 - With Our Thoughts We Make the World	p. 103
13 - Healing the Mind by Living in the Present Moment	p. 111
14 - What to Do When (It Seems) You Can't Do Anything	p. 121
15 - Zen Helps	p. 127
From Isolation to Solitude
16 - Communicating with Care	p. 139
17 - The Struggle to Find Community in Isolation	p. 145
18 - And in the End...	p. 159
A Guide to Using the Practices to Help with Specific Challenges	p. 165
With Gratitude	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 185
About the Author	p. 193

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