Anthony Tshering

All Is Vanity: The Folly of Human Ambition

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1 I am the most important person

The most painful memories are the lives we’ve never got to live, the choices we never got to make. As

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at

1 The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not

The so-called self is a construct of words and memories, of fantasies which have no existence in immediate reality. The

Few pieces of art create a sense of awe within me. Terrence Malick’s films, especially Tree of Life, do. So

Today the cool ocean air flicks my skin like fingertips. I am walking, lost in melancholy, lost in grief, but

I loved social media. I loved that I was never bored, that any time I felt empty or alone, I

I am outside, wandering Richmond, British Columbia. The ocean stands before me, a shimmering field of blue that rolls in

“When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you

I no longer think humans are innately good. This is a new belief, developed over the last 10 years. For

Christopher Nolan is a rarity in today’s Hollywood. He is the rare big-budget director that pushes the craft of filmmaking

The climate is collapsing. Most of us live in denial of this. But it is inevitable. What does climate collapse

I started meditating when I was 21. When I was in Kathmandu, Nepal, I bought a copy of Kathleen McDonald’s

(I wrote this in 2013 on an old film blog and thought it would be fun to repost it. Many