The Shwedagon Pagoda, is a gilded stupa located in Yangon, Myanmar. The 326-foot-tall pagoda is situated on Singuttara Hill, to the west of Kandawgyi Lake, and dominates the Yangon skyline. Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar, as it is believed to contain relics of the four previous Buddhas of the present […]
we are having an adventure again .We are taking a bus near the airport to Bagan a city 10 hours north of here which means we will be on the bus all night an get there at 4 am which means we will be standing around with the cows and chickens. From there you can […]
A Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel It is barely morning. I […]
My time in Bagan was magical to say the least.I went back to a time i never thought i would see .In a way it was much as i imagined from the book Horizon Lost and the land of Shangri La as it must have appeared then. My horse and cart driver in Burma Myanmar […]
I awake to snowy alps here in Switzerland. My friend and host Bernadette is making me an omelette and i still can’t figure out how she does what that i can’t do. Her omelet’s are delicious. I eagerly request rostii the Swiss version of hash browns because last night i was craving them. She says […]
Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters […]
On the list of my favorite cafes around the world This is one of my favorite world cafes Cafe Trieste which brought espresso to the West Coast back in the Thirties.This was the stomping grounds for the likes of Jack Kerouac,Allen Ginsberg and Dylan and all the Beat bohemians for the past 65 years .I […]
Dharma Bum dharma (där′mə, dûr′-) Buddhism a. The body of teachings expounded by the Buddha. b. Knowledge of or duty to undertake conduct set forth by the Buddha as a way to enlightenment. c. One of the basic, minute elements from which all things are made. I just got this sticker for my car shown […]
Sometimes i wish life could be like fb where we can delete things conveniently ,things that should have never been said or done,things we feel sorry about ,missteps that we wish would have never happened so we don’t feel the self reproach. I wish we could take back certain things and wake up in the […]
“If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being. […]