As time marches on...

Greetings everyone.

I am having fun posting pictures to this little site, although I don't feel like I have a whole lot of substance yet. I have lots of things I could say, but I wanted to keep this primarily as a journal for traveling and of Dharma-related stuff. For instance there is the post about Druwang Rinpoche and I need to add a link for the orphanage in Sri Lanka that my good friend Venerable Kelsang Chitta Karuna is working with.

Hopefully the pictures are being enjoyed, but seeing pictures of a mandala pales in comparison to viewing them first hand, they truly are a work of art at the very least. The good news is that posting pictures is painfully easy (which makes me very happy about posting pictures from remote Asian areas)

After I am done with this post I will be off to get the next round of immunizations (yay!) and I have been trying to work as much as possible to gather extra money for the trip. Most of the major things are bought, I am still waiting to purchase the camera, a sleeping bag and various toiletries. Also I am still debating on either a steripen or the Miox water purifier system.

Every day I try to throw away or pack a little bit more, I also have realized how little I can rationally take ( and need to take!!) This is a bit difficult sometimes since most of the things I have left I am either attached to or are Dharma books that I wish I could take with me!

This weekend I was fortunate enough to meet another Lama from the Drikung lineage, but I'll write more about that some other time.

Peace