Tarthang Tulku Archives

A Bird on the Wing

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...

I don’t think often of Mr. Escobar, but he came to mind a few days ago when my writing group spent 12 minutes riffing...

“Aren’t we tired of seeing what is wrong in the world and having no way to address it? There is no profit in fighting,...