Where to be next!!!

In a few days, it will be 3 weeks in Shangri-la. We have started looking at varies places to rent, and the more we look the more we are having doubts about being in Shangri-la. Keeping warm has become priority in our life, and it is consuming most of our time. (Imagine trying to meditate in the cold of zero degree - teeth chattering, buried under blanket)

I received a few emails asking about our life; and I believe people romanticize that we in the countryside.

The fact is our life here is no different to our life if we are in Singapore or Seoul. Our days are pretty routine with making prayers, drawing classes for Dave, homeschooling, trying to learn Mandarin, going for walk and so on!

What may be the only difference is the comfort of warm weather and hot showers!!!

We have come here with the uncertainty of how long we are going here for. Now with the first month almost up, we are thinking where next!!!!

We feel the need to keep traveling - maybe travel overland back to Singapore or maybe overland to UK.

It does not matter what we decide - I have not regret being in in the cold! There is so much to learn from the people around. Their level of patience and acceptance is just amazing!

It is also unfortunate to see that this is slowly eroding away as modern life slowly take over, as money starts to take over!!!! Their problems and troubles start to image the ones my mother has at home.

Now I understand what it means when they said one day there will be no Buddha - dharma, and we will live in ignorance. I must remember never be contented with my practice - samsaric pleasure should never take over!




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Location:Shangrila, China