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Having enough. Being enough. That’s enough!
“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.” - Walt Whitman Matt Lombardo, one of my favorite teachers at Jivamukti,...
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Nepal: Doors and Doorways (continued)
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” ― Walt Whitman Filed under: Photography, Traveling Tagged: doors, kathmandu, Nepal, Photography, travel photography, walt whitman
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The Highest Form of Listening: Seek First to Understand (Stephen Covey)
Listen when someone is speaking, not to the words, but to what is talking. -Diane Osbon I have been thinking about an exercise we did in Nepal with the Nepalese women: a study in active listening...
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Morning time in a Nepalese Garden
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ― Anaïs Nin As the end...
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“Keep going, keep going, come what may”– Vincent van Gogh
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going, come what may....
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Nepal Packing, Part I
Jeanne bought us our first item to pack for Nepal…. and I believe it is the most important purchase of all: our journals! Considering the fact that my journal from Baron Baptiste teacher training in...
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Lessons from a Buddhist Lama: Thompson Street, NYC
I met Phurba Lama today. He is a Buddhist lama (lama is the Tibetan word for monk) that owns a Tibetan store right on Thompson Street and West 3rd, two blocks away from my apartment and across the...
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Day 2, Nepal
“I like one ship — that is friendship” - Shanti- “Love is feeding those that are hungry” - Reena- Bala burns a candle on behalf of all the women of the world. In meditation, she asks us to think of...
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Nepal: Shop Ladies
I love the people of Nepal because their happiness is authentic, effortless, and humble – a true statement of how living simply can provide you with an abundantly satisfying life. Wouldn’t it be...
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Follow Your Bliss
“If you follow your bliss you put yourself on a track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t...
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Two parts: finding the sublime in Nepal & van Gogh’s quest
I am certainly no artist (which was confirmed by a teacher who once described my images as “lacking any charge”), but I do love this image. On my last day in Nepal, we walked for miles up through the...
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Inter-being: a reflection on emptiness
I recently finished The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. It is a wonderful little book offering a clear framework on traditional Buddhist thought: a perfect little refresher that was...
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Hello, from Shechen monastery in Nepal!
We finally arrived last night! It is 7:13am Tuesday morning right now and so far the jet lag isn’t too bad. It took us a total of 32 hours to get here (17 hours in flights and a 15 hour layover in...
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Virginia Woolf, “Let me sit here for ever with bare things”
You may remember my Nepal:Shop Ladies post from June 7th. I was so proud of my blog that day when I received the Congratulations! email and learned it would be promoted on the WordPress Freshly Pressed...
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Cup o’ Courage: “True commitment always comes with loss”
“In Dante’s Divine Comedy the Roman poet Virgil accompanies Dante to the underworld. No one wants to be Virgil anymore — to ‘go into hell with Dante.’ But the willingness to explore with patience and...
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Cup o’ Courage: “Love yourself first”
I am interested in the grittiness and texture of life and want to share it through your experiences and your words in the Cup o’ Courage series. I hope you find something in each entry that connects...
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Nepal: An offering to Ganesh
I found this special woman in Bhaktapur, Nepal at a Hindu temple. In the first photo, she is located in the bottom right, dressed in a red salwar and raising her hand to add a dab of paste to her...
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Nepal: Evenings of hot lemon water, honey and fresh ginger
I close my eyes and remember Nepal: I like the evenings of hot lemon water, honey and fresh ginger. I like the orange bursting from the woman’s cloth wrapped around her neck. I like the man and his...
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“Maybe it was the voice of the rain crying, a cracked bell, or a torn heart.”...
Since the week has been grey and foggy it is nice to think of a place where leaves are growing as luxuriantly as the flowers are. In the morning, my Mum asked me for an image I took in Nepal the day my...
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Dear National Geographic: I found her too. Your biggest fan, Jenna.
NatGeo posted a photo this morning of a Nepalese woman I photographed when I was there in May. I even took a selfie with her (see below) and she TOTALLY PHOTO BOMBED it. I thought that was superb of...
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