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This blog follows the travels of the Turberfield family as they drop out of the normal busyness of corporate life to explore the ancient art of Tibetan Thangka, the dusty mountaintop temples of the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau and travel overland from Singapore to England.

Offering to The Spiritual Guide in a lofty gompa perched above the natural fort of Dongwan valley, weekly trips to Shangri La's unpredictable shower rooms, keeping the cows out of the bins, scaling sacred Mount Shika, haggling for pu-er in the tea markets of Kunming and the nightly wonder of the milky way - possibly as far as it's possible to get from the subway at rush hour....

The main contributors are Michelle (also widely known as "The Boss") and David with bits and pieces from San San and Jon Jon. We hope you enjoy and look forward to your comments.

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Freezing

Five o-clock in the morning and sleep has left me for the last few hours. I begin to wonder if my family and I are going to survive this winter! It is only November and we have only been here for 2 days.

Winter is looking bitter and cold from where we stand. The room in Thangka Academy is not geared up to cope with accommodating anyone for the cold temperature. We tried our best to keep warm, hugging our blanket and relying on our new found comfort of electric blanket.

I realize that Dharma has been the last thing on my mind. In this 'extreme' condition, all I crave for is the little comfort we took for granted, just barely few days ago.

This reminded me why I have encouraged this move. I want to get away from all the distractions and concentrate to make my spiritual life my main focus. Like Geshe-la said there is no way to get away from our distractions as they are in our mind. A simple life is where we are content with what we got and not look elsewhere for more! Even in a cave, we would still have our favorite spot!

So I am going to try harder once again and make this trip a worthwhile experience and not just a meaningless entries in my life!

Michminster

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Location:Shangri-la, China

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