Caring by Alex Grey

In this short essay we would like to bring our colleagues’ attention to two remarkable texts on the art and science of conscious living and dying:  Sogyal Rinpoche’s monumental Tibetan Book of Living & Dying, and Professor Robert Thurman’s lucid new translation and commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead.   Especially for people who have been inspired, but perhaps mislead, by early, incomplete and inaccurate translations of Tibetan, and so called “Tibetan”, teachings, these two books provide an authentic, inspiring, comprehensive, heart-opening and mind expanding glimpse of a profound tradition of conscious living and dying.   If you are interested in subtle energies, working with the dying, or conscious living and dying these books will be life-long companions.

This paper was initially written for publication in the Bridges Newsletter for the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and for workshops for the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS).

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See also:  Tong Len Meditation