Whatever we do, wherever we go, whatever happens on this crowded surface of interactions constituting our world, there is also the sky.
Tarthang Tulku is a Tibetan Vajrayana teacher and lama who
introduced the Nyingma school tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
to the United States. He oversees Dharma Publishing and
established the Yeshe De project, with the purpose of
preserving and distributing sacred Tibetan texts
in collaboration with the Tibetan Aid Project.
“I’m thinking about all the complexity that we find ourselves in, and sometimes it can feel very claustrophobic, and how we get pulled by algorithmic undertow and by our biases into narrow perspectives. This quote is a reminder that whatever the tangle of complexity might feel like, ultimately, it’s all within this open, spaciousness that’s available to us if we pause and listen.”
Bruce Alderman, MA
is an affiliate faculty at
John F. Kennedy University
and the associate director of
the Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program
at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
He’s the co-creator, producer, and occasional host of the
YouTube series The Integral Stage.
