by Sirimangalo Author | May 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
(a.k.a. a log from overseas) Just finished our course at Chom Tong, off to Chiang Mai to tie up some loose ends, then Bangkok to get visas and do some little teaching before our trip home. The ten-day course was the best birthday gift ever; Ajaan was recovering from...
by Sirimangalo Author | May 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Great news, we’ve managed to sort out the visa situation, finally getting a cogent explanation from someone in charge. It reminds me a lot of the postal situation here; absurd requirements, fines, and restrictions, until you learn from someone with their head on...
by Sirimangalo Author | Apr 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Still no resolution on the visa situation, besides the unwelcome one of having our students return to their home countries before getting visas to ordain. Another try (our fourth) next Monday. Went to see Bhante Anoma yesterday, a nice visit, though short. He may be...
by Sirimangalo Author | Apr 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
…bring May flowers? Being born in May makes me conceited about that saying, though this year if the showers are any indication, the flowers must be dreadful. The past two nights we’ve lost a pump, a dozen lightbulbs, a fan, a breaker, and the adapter to...
by Sirimangalo Author | Apr 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today is the new year, or tomorrow is, depending who we listen to… Friday the 13th too. The-yogi-formerly-known-as-Jens arrived this week, and has taken up the role of groundskeeper; he and Manju have begun work on one of the more slippery forest paths and took...
by Sirimangalo Author | Mar 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
The more things change, the more they stay the same, so the saying goes. Worth keeping in mind; in the world of sankhara, the new is ever as the old. On the other hand, this is what Buddhism attempts to address, in a sense; we strive for the unattained, a goal of...
