tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post2881401725816666949..comments2024-03-27T14:35:59.406-07:00Comments on The Outsider: The Journey to the East, Part 2: from Santa Monica Pier to HerePaññobhāsahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14148206217028034038noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-7548634580461970152021-05-31T23:26:16.079-07:002021-05-31T23:26:16.079-07:00Welcome back to the wider world, perhaps a reminde...Welcome back to the wider world, perhaps a reminder that "Life was not meant to be easy!" I found a series of Herman Hesse books contributed to my "Journey to the East" in 1972, leading me in Kabul to think that there must be something more than the world as taught in the West; and fortunately I got to it within a few months.Michael Cunninghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933921928383382118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-88162523524247338882021-05-30T19:06:30.835-07:002021-05-30T19:06:30.835-07:00Thanks for another update, I love reading them. I ...Thanks for another update, I love reading them. I met you years ago at WWU in Bellingham when you came to the meditation club there (2012ish?), if you remember that at all. It was fun to meet a monk who talked about more than just the nice and positive things. Just found your blog a few months ago here. Glad to see you're still as rebellious and unorthodox as ever. Delightful! Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-25086344885915381182021-05-30T08:56:17.991-07:002021-05-30T08:56:17.991-07:00Welcome Home, Bhante. Welcome Home, Bhante. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-55772155860605012832021-05-29T09:12:38.235-07:002021-05-29T09:12:38.235-07:00Kissing girls!!!? This errant behavior will be rec...Kissing girls!!!? This errant behavior will be rectified - Samantha and I will devise an unusual set of penances for you - until then, jump up and down on the spot and recite the vinaya loudly.<br />Or<br />Denying what we are is a denial of life and doomed to failure sooner or later. We can not deny what we are - even if we don’t like it.The Reason Of Unreasonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8485583244199236996.post-62210411431062881602021-05-29T08:37:02.303-07:002021-05-29T08:37:02.303-07:00Forgive me for saying this, though I do so with a...Forgive me for saying this, though I do so with admiration: sonofabitch, yer already doin better than me!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com