Baidyanath Hotel Jharkhand
Caster Town Road Jharkhand, India
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My devotion is weak :(
... who had evaded the Chinese border guards to practically walk across Nepal to get here for literally a once-in-a-lifetime experience, I'm sure I would have gutted it out too. But this was more of a spur-of-the-moment decision for me. While I have a great deal of love and respect for the Dalai Lama, I guess my devotion is not what it needs to be to make that kind of commitment ...
The third inevitable
... decreased.
Speaking of restaurants, this is a little off-subject, but I can't resist and it was going to be a short post anyway. I found two Thai restaurants in Bodhgaya. As I just mentioned, you can get just about anything from most of the Western-catering restaurants (that is during normal times) because they don't understand the concept of specialization. Thai food is invariably stuck in back behind ...
21st century disconnect
... The rest pertained to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the last person they want to be associated with. They have no presence on Google Maps.
That seemed pretty easy to remedy. If you search for something in Google Maps and Google doesn't find it, it asks you if you want to add it as a location marker. I call over Saif.
"Saif, I'm going to add you to Google Maps. What's your address?"
Saif gets really excited about this ...
Kalachakra mudpuddle
... year they are lumped in with the monks, first come, first served. The times, they are a changing.
I scan the foreigner sections. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get the tip that there was going to be an opportunity to get access to the grounds the day before and reserve a seat. What's left is slim pickings. The massive tent is set up in two sections. A central tent that rises up, with a slanting plastic roof and secondary ...
The paradox of ngondro
... over the years I manage to complete some prerequisites I had skipped in my rush to get to Vajrayana Seminary and my motivation returns. So now I'm back at it. In the meantime, the Sakyong added a one month personal requirement, which is what I'm working on here.
The first phase involves prostrations. Prostrations are particularly effective at burning off anger and pride. In the West, we tend to build ourselves ...


