How We Live Is How We Die

Tibetan teachings on the bardos, or stages of life, including death, and how to embrace compassion for all life, so that you will have a better rebirth and be that much closer to getting off the wheel of incarnation, as well as having a more peaceful time before your current body expires. Publishers Marketing: As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life. And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life—learning to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty, embracing new beginnings, and ultimately preparing for death with curiosity and openness rather than fear. Poignant for readers of all ages, her teachings on the bardos—a Tibetan term referring to a state of transition, including what happens between this life a