Kindness for All Creatures

Buddhist Advice for Compassionate Animal Care

Sarah C. Beasley, Anam Thupten

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Shambhala Publications Inc
20 August 2019

The natural world, country life & pets

A heartfelt guide to compassionate care for animals from a Buddhist perspective, with practical advice for mindfully raising pets and honoring animals.

Are you doing all you can for the well-being of your pet? Many pet guardians struggle with this question in relation to adopting versus buying, how best to raise and train animals, and how to approach the aging, sickness, and death passage. Structured around the Six Perfections of Mahayana Buddhism, this book provides answers to these questions and more with heartfelt guidance on how to apply mindfulness and spirituality to our relationships with animals. As well as being a practical resource, this book serves as a form of advocacy to encourage readers to think and feel more deeply and naturally about caring for the creatures--both pets and wildlife--that we share our world with.

By: Sarah C. Beasley, Anam Thupten
Imprint: Shambhala Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9781611806595
ISBN 10: 1611806593
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 August 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

SARAH C. BEASLEY is an advanced ordained lay practitioner in the Nyingma lineage with thirteen years full-time direct training in traditional Buddhist teachings and methods for body, speech, and mind. She spent close to seven of those years in closed intensive retreat under the guidance of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, supported by Tsadra Foundation. She also had three years' work on Practices for the Dead (and Dying), including guidance on how to care for pets during the aging and death passage. Sarah explores Buddhist and Western approaches to death and dying in workshops she offers. She is also a regular contributor to Buddhist Door Global, Jnanasukha Foundation, Levekunst, and Vajrayana World on topics of pets, nature, life, death and dying, and Buddhism; and she recently had an essay published in the Sounds True anthology The Dharma of Dogs.

Reviews for Kindness for All Creatures: Buddhist Advice for Compassionate Animal Care

Nonhuman animals need all the help they can get in an increasingly human-dominated world. As Sarah Beasley notes, 'Every species has its place' as does each and every individual, and treating other animals better also means treating ourselves better. Kindness for All Creatures is a must-read in an age when countless nonhumans are treated as unfeeling objects rather than sentient and feeling beings. --Marc Bekoff, author of Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do and Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Giving Your Canine Companion the Best Life Possible In her eminently readable book, Beasley offers readers a broad range of 'entrance points' for enacting compassion toward animals. She creatively employs the Six Perfections of Mahayana Buddhism (generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, concentration, and wisdom) to our relationships with animals, exploring how these perfections can inform our interactions, beginning with the core idea that all animals have intrinsic value and that they, like us, want to be free of suffering and live life on their own terms. Every reader will come away with an exciting list of ideas about how to act with greater kindness towards animals both near and far, and how to cultivate kindness and compassionate awareness of animal suffering in others. --Jessica Pierce, author of Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets