I wrote about how circumambulation can help us navigate when we lose our way in life. We can perform ritual walks at places that have special meaning for us—where are some of your places?

“Ann Tashi Slater Considers a Window Into Life, Through Death.” In this excerpt from my new book, Traveling in Bardo, I write about my grandmother’s Tibetan Buddhist funeral and the traditional rituals for traveling through the bardo period between death and rebirth. These rituals also guide, us the living, as we journey through the bardo from birth to death.

I wrote for Oprah Daily about how Japanese wisdom helped me say goodbye to my beloved dog, Mac. “Spring brought the sakura cherry blossoms, quintessential symbols of impermanence, their impending absence integral to their loveliness. In this season of beauty and sadness, Mac showed me another dimension of wabi-sabi: how to accept fading and mortality.”

Ann Tashi Slater shares five key insights from her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World, for the Next Big Idea Club. Slater’s book has been selected as a “Must-Read” by the Club, which is co-curated by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Adam Grant.