The journet

[Guest guest]

Dear Group,

 

We are back from traveling to San Diego for a last visit with my

wife's two kids Both in their 20's, getting started in their adult

lives. One is in art school, the other in New York, an aspiring actress.

 

For the next week and a half we are living in a room at the SAT

temple. This is a wonderful transition space for us, moving from the

western life-style (which was accentuated by our 'Silicon Valley' life.)

 

I am at the Santa Cruz library, where there is free wi-fi, and quiet

tables to set at. There is no wi-fi at the temple.

 

We have a quiet and small room. We are able to go into the meditation

hall and meditate. Those that we talk to there are filled with love of

the non-dual Truth. Some days we have the chance to say a few words

with Nome.

 

We now have the final winnowing to do with our remaining worldly

possessions. We took more to the Temple than we will take to India. It

was so much of a task to deal with all the objects we had accumulated

that we deferred some decisions to the next few days.

 

Then next week will be a five-day retreat, the Truth Revealed retreat.

And about 8 hours after it is over, then we get on a Singapore

airlines flight to Chennai.

 

My wife has a bit of the sense of 'what have we done?' But this will

pass. We understand this as the ego, reacting to the loss of a big set

of material 'props' that ego held to. Since we see this as ego, and

dissolution of ego is key to practice, then this reaction is just

another opportunity for practice.

 

I feel so taken care of by Ramana. After deciding to go live in the

shadow of Arunachala, we have been presented with a place to live that

is much more quiet and private than is often the case in India. And we

were presented with this chance to stay at the SAT temple on the way

to Tiru.

 

Not two,

Richard