Beginning Monday, September 18, 2023, the IMC-Lewes Dharma Study Group will begin reading How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chödrön.

The book is available at Amazon in hardcover form for $22.46. Other sellers offer books there and used books are also available, for as low as $13.52. The book is readily available from numerous other online sources such as Shambala Publications.

Publisher’s Summary

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. Through this book, 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 and the next—reveal their power and relevance at each moment of our lives. She also offers practical methods for transforming life’s most challenging emotions about change and uncertainty into a path of awakening and love. As she teaches, the more freedom we can find in our hearts and minds as we live this life, the more fearlessly we’ll be able to confront death and what lies beyond. In all, Chödrön provides readers with a master course in living life fully and compassionately in the shadow of death and change.