When you see the epigram from Dogen, you know that this article will be about more than "How to Bury a Dog."

Physician, teacher, and author Deepak Chopra is a pioneer in the movement to to rethink the conventional ideas of aging as an inevitable process of deterioration and to substitute instead a more positive vision of how we can continually renew ourselves to live out our lives in health and well-being. Read this interview for an introduction to his hopeful and practical approach.