Monk Tashirok

A Buddhist monk writing on solitude, the self, and quiet remembering.

Monk Tashirok is a Buddhist monk writing on solitude, the quiet forgetting of self, and the slow return to listening. His short volumes are written for the person who has learned to care for everyone except themselves.

A life of quiet attention

His work is not instruction but accompaniment. It begins where most of us actually are — surrounded, capable, and strangely unreachable — and makes space to notice what we usually hurry past.

Why these writings

Collected over years of practice and conversation, they are offered as small meetings with the self. Read one slowly, let it sit, and return when you need it.

There is a strange loneliness that appears even when people surround you. Not because no one loves you, and not because no one cares — but because, somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling seen by yourself. We spend years learning what others need and how not to disappoint them, until, slowly and without noticing, our own inner voice grows quiet. Not peaceful. Simply forgotten.

The soul becomes distant not all at once, but through many small abandonments. As the mind ages, it begins to understand that not every burden deserves our loyalty — yet we learn this slowly. At first we carry everything: every insult, every regret, every expectation, as if suffering longer made something more meaningful.

We imagine life changes in big moments — a loss, a success, a sudden realization. More often it changes quietly, through what we repeat each day: the thoughts we return to, the fears we rehearse, the stories we tell ourselves when no one is listening. A river shapes stone not by force, but by repetition.

Published works

1 title by Monk Tashirok

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The Unhurried Mind

Buddhist philosophy for a busy world — a collected volume of Monk Tashirok's writings on solitude, disconnection, and returning to oneself.

$15.00