SuzetteSP

Geo: 37.7792, -122.42Home. Happy. In my city by the bay, seeing the fog, all the individuals walking the sidewalks seemingly each from a different planet steeped in their individuality...letting their carefully curated freak flags fly proud. I love this town. It's so home. Progressive, questioning, stimulated, innovative, inspired, free-thinking...and sunny. It's not a coincidence that it's the first city I've ever moved back to. I lived here for 6 years back in my twenties, and for the first time in my life I think I might be ready to grow some roots...at the age of 36, after 19 years of wandering around this planet I'm home. Inside me I have my childhood home in New England, my second home and place of spiritual awakening in Dharmsala, my paradise on earth in Bali, my personal measure of ... read more

Geo: 51.5002, -0.126236Flight delay caused us all to miss our connections...so rang a couple old friends to meet me 'round the local pub where we'd hang out most nights when I lived here...hope I'm ok enough to catch my flight in the morning! ... read more

Geo: 32.2207, 76.3188http://franlinares.multiply.com/journal/item/77http://www.tushita.info/http://www.tushita.info/intro.htmTeaching in Dharamsala (H.P.), India from September 30 to October 4: His Holiness will give five-day teachings on Arya Nagarjuna's Commentary on Bodhicitta (jangchup semdrel) and Kamalashila's The Middling Stages of Meditation (gomrim barpa). The teachings are primarily for Chinese Buddhists mainly from Taiwan.Honored to sit in His Holiness' presence again for another teaching...In all 11 days of lecture in the six months I've been living here in 'Little Lhasa'... read more

Geo: 32.2207, 76.3188http://www.dalailama.com/news.299.htmDharamsala, HP, India, 25 October 2008 (Photos by Tenzin Choejor, OHHDL) - His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Upper Tibetan Children's Village School on the occasion of their 48th anniversary celebrations today. During his address to the public, His Holiness talked about the importance of post-graduate education in specific disciplines, the current situation in Sino-Tibetan relations, and his recent health condition.... read more

Geo: 32.2207, 76.3188I'm teaching English in the monastery in the afternoons to a small class of enthusiastic, and very giggly Tibetan monks. I think I've fallen in love with all of them already. I'm learning so much more than I am teaching them. I ask them so many questions about Buddhist philosophy (which they've all been studying exclusively since childhood) and it's maybe the most beneficial learning I've ever been exposed to. Really, what is more valuable than your own personal well-being? And as the Mahayana Buddhists would say, I've learned, finding inner peace and then sharing it with others. That is the core of the philosophy. More than the idea, is the practice. It feels indescribably good to live in a village where everyone practices compassion, treats you as though you are a trusted, loved ... read more