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.
Bardo
The bardo is the Tibetan Buddhist term for the transitional state between death and rebirth. The Sanskrit term for bardo is antarābhava, and the concept has come to represent the space between states, like our lives that exist between the past and the future.
Practicing Death to Live More Fully
Writer Ann Tashi Slater on funeral rites, the Bardo Thodol, and the liberating effect of marking transitions
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.
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.
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.
The Painful Beauty of Being Alive
Dominican American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez on living between cultures, her journey through the bardo of a health crisis, and how she’s making peace with the stories she hasn’t been able to tell
‘Don’t Miss Your Life’
Ann Tashi Slater speaks with Spirit Rock cofounder Sylvia Boorstein about losing those you love, the bardos of old age, and the daily practice of dwelling in the moment.
Living Between the Known and the Unknown
Ann Tashi Slater speaks with physicist and author Alan Lightman about happiness, hidden knowledge, and living our lives with an awareness of death.
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