Perhaps the most interesting character I met in Pai was an elder named Garuda..Garuda is a poet & author who also shares a daily 'breathing' class each morning at his place in Pai...He spent 4 years training under Alexander Lowen who discovered that most Westerners are shallow breathers who don't fully inhabit their bodies..(are you deeply breathing right now?)...just sitting with Garuda was a good experience for me as he challenged and reminded me to breath more deeply....
Living the Traveling Life leaves plenty of time for reading...just finished Garuda's 'Poems from Pai', also 'Dharma Gaia:Essays on Buddhism & Ecology' by various authors, & finally read 'The Electric Cool Aid Acid test' by Tom Wolfe about ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters...my favorite book though is a tiny little Shambala classic called 'The Zen Teaching of Huang Po' which is a collection of dharma(truth) talks by a Chinese Zen Master from 9th Century?....What is Buddha?...Mind is Buddha....very Mind-blowing!...
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