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Contemporary spiritual teacher Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (275,000 copies sold to date) dealt with how to use the consciousness of our mortality to live a better life. Now the author of the perennial bestseller Who Dies? tells us how to live mindfully each moment, each hour, each day as if it were all that was left. BOMC and QPBC Alternate Selection. 176 pp. National publicity & author tour.
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Catching Up with Your Life | 3 |
| 2 | Practice Dying | 8 |
| 3 | Preparing to Die | 14 |
| 4 | Dying from the Common Cold | 18 |
| 5 | Renewing Evolution | 21 |
| 6 | Famous Last Words | 26 |
| 7 | Fear of Fear | 29 |
| 8 | Noticing | 34 |
| 9 | A Commitment to Life | 39 |
| 10 | Fear of Dying | 45 |
| 11 | Fear of Death | 51 |
| 12 | The Moment of Death | 56 |
| 13 | The Act of Dying | 59 |
| 14 | Dying Contemplation | 61 |
| 15 | Jennifer | 67 |
| 16 | Life Review | 69 |
| 17 | Forgiveness | 88 |
| 18 | Gratitude | 93 |
| 19 | Keeping a Journal | 98 |
| 20 | Altaring Your Life | 100 |
| 21 | Living in the Body | 103 |
| 22 | With Death Just over My Shoulder | 106 |
| 23 | Letting Go of Control | 108 |
| 24 | July | 110 |
| 25 | Tom | 112 |
| 26 | Who Dies? | 114 |
| 27 | Original Face | 118 |
| 28 | After-Death Experiences | 122 |
| 29 | Beyond the House of Death | 127 |
| 30 | Return Appearances | 129 |
| 31 | Reincarnation | 131 |
| 32 | Peter and Tim | 137 |
| 33 | Disposing of the Corpse | 140 |
| 34 | Finding the Lotus Before Winter | 146 |
| 35 | Armando and the Floating World | 151 |
| 36 | A Good Day to Die | 154 |
| 37 | Name That Tune | 156 |
| 38 | Aging | 159 |
| 39 | December | 161 |
| Epilogue | 167 | |
| Appendix | Group Practice | 169 |
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Overview
In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully—as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our view of the world and forces us to examine our priorities. Most of us go to extraordinary lengths to ignore, laugh off, or deny the fact that we are going to die, but preparing for death is one of the most rational and rewarding acts of a lifetime. It is an exercise that gives us the opportunity to deal with unfinished business ...