Warning Verses of Pu-Hsien Bodhisattva: “The day goes by so the life is shortened …”. The Buddhist cultivators’ daily Evening Chanting echoes individual’s clinical experience in hospice care. Dying patients demonstrating with their precious lives remind us to be aware of how to do the final consummation in our limited life. Variable emotion is a deathbed subject. Death is the biggest frustration and loss of life. In the end of their lives, dying patients not only have to endure the great pain and sorrow of organ failure bodily but also the heavy emotional burden and fear of death mentally. As a companion, how to get close to the physical, psychological and spiritual needs of dying patients while looking at the decay of life, in addition to keeping company with patiently, the greatest effort is to eliminate dying patients’ fear of death by stabilizing their minds. The subject of this article is studying the possibility of applying Tientai Zhi-Guan to hospice care. By clinical practice of hospice care sorts out dying patients’ spiritual needs, and through the doctrine and practice of Tientai Zhi-Guan provides the way to spiritual care and actually help dying patients who face the life-and-death hardship to obtain possible means to physical and psychological settlement and transformation of life, and therefore freely detach from the life-and-death vexations of the visible significant physical illness and the invisible fear. Although Tientai Zhi-Guan sees Yuan-Dun (圓頓) as its final stage, it also applies gradual or indefinite diversified Zhi-Guan approaches, and it appears that learning Zhi-Guan is not only limited to religious practice but also is associated with the behavior of average person’s daily life. If Zhi-Guan approach can be adequately used to guide dying patients in hospice care and cease patients’ negative emotions, there will be considerable helps for improving the quality of life as well as transformation of mundane life. The practice of Tientai Zhi-Guan can be done through contemplation in sitting or in everyday life. Sitting practice is the training in stillness while everyday-life practice is the training in movement. Through inner insights of contemplating as is, we realize the reality of all things, cultivate the strength to settle body and mind, and get liberation and self-mastery from the fear of death. If dying patients can practice according to Tientai Zhi-Guan doctrines in their daily life, by using ‘ill’ as a media they can detach from the obstacles and hardships of dying situation through self-recognition that all things corporeal are void in essence. To sum up, this article cuts into the issues of physical and mental adjustment in daily life. Through comprehension and interpretation of Tientai Zhi-Guan sorts out practical approaches that can be applied to hospice care, actually provides the way of life transformation to dying patients during treatment process, and owing to this make them perfectly observe birth-aging-illness-death, and come to realize Bu
