Walking is a wonderful way to calm down when you are upset...we have the capability to walk In a way that we only imprint peace and serenity on the Earth...walking brings the mind and body together...(Thich Nhat Hanh)
White rice and hot chocolate for breakfast, which turned into hot chocolate with rice, really better than it sounds.
The regional climbing center, no maps but especially dangerous monkey bars, fully exploited.
The Dalai Llama temple where we recorded the sonorous chants, learned how to turn the 108 beads.
They were constructing a mandala diagram and then, out of the many monks walking everywhere, our favorite one, who silently walked with us yesterday, came up to a few of us and touched my arm and beckoned us to follow him, up the stairs to a small little room filled with icons and artifacts. He held up what looked like a small sharp knife wrapped in blue cloth, and motioned me to bow my head, which he touched with the blue cloth and gave me a blessing in Tibetan, and said the Dalai Llama had touched the cloth. He gave us all the same blessing, the said "go", and started his own prayers.
Lunch with the Buddhists from Sweden, they answered our questions and asked questions of their own.
White rice and hot chocolate for breakfast, which turned into hot chocolate with rice, really better than it sounds.The regional climbing center, no maps but especially dangerous monkey bars, fully exploited.The Dalai Llama temple where we recorded the sonorous chants, learned how to turn the 108 beads.They were constructing a mandala diagram and then, out of the many monks walking everywhere, our favorite one, who silently walked with us yesterday, came up to a few of us and touched my arm and beckoned us to follow him, up the stairs to a small little room filled with icons and artifacts. He held up what looked like a small sharp knife wrapped in blue cloth, and motioned me to bow my head, which he touched with the blue cloth and gave me a blessing in Tibetan, and said the Dalai Llama had touched the cloth. He gave us all the same blessing, the said "go", and started his own prayers.
We talked about the nature of self, whether our identity is only old habits, or is there something essential that does not fade away, and what is human potential, that the spontaneous calligraphic stroke of the master is possible only after many years of practice, just as the spontaneous kindness and generosity of the gentle monk or kind friend is the fruit of years of a devotional practice. This is the lunch with the Buddhists from Sweden with the very cute 7 year old girl, we met on the travel coming down from the regional climbing center.
Lunch with the Buddhists from Sweden, they answered our questions and asked questions of their own. 
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