Tarthang Tulku Archives

Aftermaths and Precursors

Ah, the before and the after! How have they managed to crowd out my awareness of my feelings and my freedom to ponder the...

This morning a phrase came back to me while I was sitting for my morning 30 minutes, in what I call meditation but which...

I always took Kafka’s phrase, “A bird went in search of a cage,” as referring to the human tendency to feel anxious with too...

I wish you were here. It’s hard to really enjoy myself without you. I try to be open to your presence but my mind...

There is a certain kind of knowledge that has risen to the top of the knowledge food chain in our world. This kind of...

I love the feeling of being ‘inside’ and in the midst of everything. However, when I am inside an observing self with everything I...

“We appear to be cut off, restricted to a single sphere and totally accounted for therein. And certainly, the ‘us’ of this ordinary level...

“Thoughts may arise like bubbles in a stream of water, but we are intent on entering the thought’s ‘bubble world’. From within that world...

A man, who for several years hasn’t driven outside the radius that holds his grocery store and a few favorite restaurants, is planning a...

I have to ask myself why I imagine I can write a book about the TSK vision—introduced to the world with the publication in...