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Pottery Square friendship
By the recommendation of a friend made in Goa I visited a spot in Pottery Square in Bhaktapur. Sajan and Srijan invited me to have chai and we slipped easily into a nourishing conversation on healing, the strength of community, flow of life, visions and past life regression, living meditation and the gurus we love.
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Dendrophile // Tree Hugger
When I place my hand on a tree, the feeling’s different from a hand on a table, the concrete floor, or even sand. On a tree, my hand absorbs its calmness, its serenity and directs that to my heart. It sounds crazy but I feel trees so deeply. Trees are mesmerising. Trees are alive. Trees
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Fire puja in India
Riwo Sangcho by Machig Rinpoche. Magical. Rice grains, milk, honey were poured one scoop at a time into flames. Leaves, branches and barks of trees fueled the fire. By the river we sat in silence. We had woken up before 5am, took a bus running through dusty roads and sleeping towns, walked in darkness around
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Walking each other home
Last week, I wrote that nothing bad has happened this year. That very same week our hamster fell very sick suddenly. Pebbles died five days later. Today, we bid goodbye to our 91 years’ old ah gong after a five-day wake. Two weekends, two deaths. Did I jinx it? Should we never say we are
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