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=0=| Each morning there was a walk (usually) or meditation. The walk started close to Discovery as was a meditation walk where we would practice the mantra and silence while walking (generally single file and spaced out a few feet apart. Here and below is Lama La (Lama Dudjom Dorjee) giving us instruction before the talk. However, even with good directions we would still sometimes bunch up as shown below. |
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| Another place we bunched up was corssing the suspension bridge. When you had more than a couple people on it, it would start to swing from side to side which got pretty disconcerting (above). On the left you can see my brother carrying the teachings, just to left and behind Lori. Next to that is a picture I took of the stream that the bridge crossed. Behind me in that picture would be the crossing which you drove across to get to the camp araa (perhaps three inches deep while we were there). Here is a picture of Lama La and his daughter, Tashi Dolkar when we stopped by the stream. |
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| Here is a picture of Isabel. She took the three really nice pictures directly above (in the left column) including the one of me and a couple of the other meditation walkers before the walk. I got a better picture of her later on in Seattle. Her camera is much nicer than mine (about eight years newer, too), but she also has great eye for pictures. She was practicing using her new camera for the upcoming trip to India with Lama La. Above on the right is a picture of a little waterfall along the stream that we stopped and meditated by. That was very nice. I also made a short video of the waterfall. |
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| The food at the retreat was quite good and there was certainly plenty. It made it hard to show good restraint. Above and here are pictures of Scott enjoying his excesses. Yummee. A few weeks before the reteat the Karmapa who leads this branch of Buddhism had declared that meat would no longer be served at KTC centers (or retreats) so they had to revise the menu with little notice. It also prompted me to consider Vegetarianism and I wrote a separate page with my thoughts, but to really make sense of it, you need to start with first of the four part series (Yikes!) and continue through. Below are pictures of the final stages of food preparation in the kitchen (including my brother) as well as Lama La. Well this is the end of the BlueBunnie retreat, but if you have a really fast internet connection (don't bother if you are dialup), there is a way cool movie participants made of the retreat. |
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This page was last updated on August 31, 2008.
