Tarthang Tulku Archives

Doors of Remembrance

“By learning to contact the essence of our being, we can discover an unbounded freedom, which is not only a freedom from some external...

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...