The Internet Archive invites you to join us for Running Toward Mystery: A Conversation with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Eileen Donahoe. This event will be held on June 5th, Saka Dawa, a day celebrating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana (passing from this life). It is said that Saka Dawa is an especially auspicious day for spiritual practice.
Running Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi’s profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment, the vital importance of mentors in that search, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way, among them the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa.
“Teachers come and go on their own schedule,” Priyadarshi writes. “I clearly wasn’t in charge of the timetable and it wasn’t my place to specify how a teacher should teach.” And arrive they did, at the right time, in the right way, to impart the lessons that shaped a life of seeking, devotion, and deep human connection across all barriers.
“A necessary and captivating narrative of spiritual courage and truth seeking far beyond the veil of our contemporary delusions.”—Sting
Buy a copy of Running Toward Mystery here, through our local San Francisco bookstore, The Booksmith. Following the conversation, we invite the first 100 people who purchase the book to attend a "virtual book signing" with the Tenzin Priyadarshi.
EVENT SCHEDULE: All time are Pacific Time
Be sure to join us early for a live musical prelude
12:55 PM: Musical Prelude by members of Del Sol Quartet
1:05 PM: Welcome by Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive
1:10-2:10 PM: Conversation with the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi and Eileen Donahoe, an expert in human rights, cyber security and foreign policy
2:10-2:30 PM: Q & A
2:30-2:45 PM: Break
2:45-3:45 PM: 1 on 1 with the author for a Virtual Book Signing (limited to first 100 book buyers thru this Booksmith link.)