Root Institute Bodh Gaya

These are the two retreats i took at the Root Institute. The first was taught by Venerable Amy Miller, an american nun who has been working in hospices and other first hand experiences of helping ppl die.  While this may sound depressing i assure ...

... . I sit on a rooftop and watch the sunrise. Freezing. Then I play with the dog. Slowly, time goes by. I came to root institute after a friend recommended it. I signed up for 3 meditation sessions. Tibetan Buddhism  meditation, I was curious to try. ...

... on earth were we gonna get it back - but Gisele was totally adamant we had a good chance.  So we took a rickshaw to Root Institute, the retreat center where we'll be for the latter half of december, and dumped our bags there. We then went all ...

... center for almost two months now, crashing weddings and studying vaginal discharge (not what I had imagined I would be doing in India). Initially I liked the idea of spending two months working on my inner self-meditating, serving, and living free of ...

I finally made it to Bodhgaya on December 19 at 1:30 AM, after 30 hours traveling from Kathamandu with my bus load of Tibetan pilgrims. The 6 hours extra travel time, due to traffic, delays, and general road chaos even made the devout pilgrims a little ...

... we were there, over the course of two hours, a man followed me from room to room.  Staring is a social norm in India but stalking(at least overtly) is not.  We told him numerous times to leave me alone yet he persisted. Finally when the ...

We have found a peaceful sanctuary in Bodh Gaya, the place of Buddha's enlightenment, which, outside of the spectacular temple complex that contains the Bodhi tree, I am sorry to report is the filthiest place I've ever seen in my life. I had expected ...