[NondualitySalon] A Place

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Victor Torrico <vtorrico

; <Advaita-Ashram >;

<NondualitySalon >; <ANetofJewels >;

<ACES-KEEPERS >; <dzogchen >

Wednesday, September 13, 2000 6:51 AM

[NondualitySalon] A Place

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

Bidding you all a fond farewell for the time being. I'm spending

entirely too much time at the computer generating all these inane

ramblings when I should really be working on learning to be. This is

only an individual job and cannot be done by someone else. I've had

enough pointers towards reality to last ten lifetimes. Now it's time

to put these pointers to work.

 

The project of my heart is building a place to be used as an

occasional retreat center, meeting place and for individual meditation

retreats. I have no idea why I'm doing this crazy thing --- something

just is urging me on. With luck I hope to be finished with the main

part by next year (May of 2001).

 

It is located on fifty acres in the Western Appalachian mountains about

thirty miles West of the Shenandoah Valley and about as far West as you

can go in the state of Virginia --- a place of singular beauty and peace.

It is in a wooded place, immediately behind our home, overlooking a

meadow and river.

 

I plan to post occasional reports to let everyone know how the

building is going on. Ground leveling, digging of foundation holes, pole

raising, and saw-milling of lumber on site will start in the next

couple of weeks. Then the lumber will have to season over the Winter

with actual work starting around February or March.

 

I invite one person to help me build this next year. If you are

interested please send email and we can talk about it. This would be a

labor of love since the pay would be room, board and fellowship.

 

With love, peace, equanimity and happiness to everyone,

 

Victor

 

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Dear Victor and all,

 

Having seen Victor "in his natural habitat" --he, he..he loves this teasing..but

truly Victor is a man of the earth who gardens, and enjoys his river and

wildflowers, and even hand feeds the fish in his pond (want to see huge catfish

who have no fear of man?), and walks thru primeval forests. Being close to

nature must give one a very natural enlightenment, the peaceful harmony and

beauty of his surroundings is certainly conducive..just to be there is to feel

nothing more could be wanted. Did you know Victor hosted already one of the

earliest Tibetan retreats held in this country? No, Victor is too modest to

mention this. Victor is also a good cook, but I am sure his wife is even

better, just from seeing her incredible stock of spices and professional cooking

equipment.

 

Well, I am saying all this to encourage anyone who has the possibility of going

to help Victor build. You will enjoy the surroundings and the company of Victor

and his delightful wife. And not to leave out his Great Dane Boots, who is a

very wise and gentle being in his own right, no doubt from Victor's influence.

So if going is even a possibility for you, I urge you to truly consider it. The

good from the gatherings there will spread over the earth and multiply.

 

With love,

Gloria