Tranquillity and Ruin

Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the hidden truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn’t really exist. In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier—or, at least, less trapped, less medicated, and less depressed. He stays at a monastery and meditates for eight hours a day. He spends time with members of a new global movement who try to fig...