Yesterday my mom called me a “modern monk.” And something about this comic vision (of myself in the robes of the Flying Nun) flinted around in my head sparking odd and incomplete inspirations. For I…
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111 Degrees Fahrenheit
111 Degrees Fahrenheit Journal Entry Delhi, India 18/5/04 111 degrees Fahrenheit in Delhi today. I bow down and thank the heat for helping to kick me out of the nest I’ve made in India. Just…
Deal with the Divine
Aha! So this is why it’s called “weed”…. (It literally grows on the side of the road here.) But I’m not quite sure how time spent in this field is gonna appease his munchies. *****…
Re-discovering the World as Round
(Leaf from the Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha became enlightened.) It’s been a year and a half since I started wearing the Buddhist Eternal Knot — a symbol for love without limits, compassion without…
Vipassana Mental Boot Camp
I’m searching for words to describe… and with one last sigh of silence am left with a few of Goenka himself; for trying to describe my Vipassana experience would be like “trying to describe the…
The “s” Word
Okay. It’s time for me to disclose a few facts that I’ve been hesitant to present as of yet. Facts I’ve chosen not to disclose in order to keep the peace in my reader relationship….