On Attention, Appreciation, and Being Where You Are
Ann Tashi Slater talks with writer Ann Patchett about awareness of impermanence, why writers should say no to lunch dates, and being an accidental bookstore owner.
Ann Tashi Slater
Ann Tashi Slater is the author of Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World. She writes for the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Guernica, and Granta, among others, and is a Tricycle contributing editor.
Finding Freedom in the Flow of Life
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert about coming into alignment with your true nature and why she isn’t done learning and growing.
Practicing Death to Live More Fully
Writer Ann Tashi Slater on funeral rites, the Bardo Thodol, and the liberating effect of marking transitions
On Not-Knowing and Making This Place Beautiful
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Maggie Smith about finding possibility in intermediate states and the freedom of having your life implode.
Turning Toward Grief and Learning to Feel Again
Ann Tashi Slater talks with veteran CNN journalist Anderson Cooper about the precariousness of life and the questions he still wrestles with today.
Leaning into Change and Trusting the World
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Katherine May about the gift of “winter” periods and the transformative power of attention.
Appreciating Life and Creating a Life Worth Appreciating
Ann Tashi Slater talks with best-selling author Bianca Bosker about how art helps us live more expansively and brings us closer together.
Moving Toward Peace, Truth, and Beauty
Ann Tashi Slater speaks with best-selling author Cheryl Strayed about the healing qualities of surrender and our power to be agents in our lives.
Why Change Shouldn’t Surprise Us
Ann Tashi Slater speaks with best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about the possibility for dramatic reversals, how to deal with uncertainty, and what it means to belong to a community.
Podcasts
Traveling in Bardo
Writer Ann Tashi Slater discusses the transformative power of between-states and how The Tibetan Book of the Dead can help us live more fully.
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Every Moment Is a Bardo
In the latest episode of Life As It Is, Ann Tashi Slater joins co-hosts James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg to discuss near-death experiences, end-of-life rituals, and what the living can learn from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Listen Now on Tricycle | Apple Podcasts | Spotify
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