We are now back in Dharamsala, Mcleod Ganj to be specific. We are only going to be here for a few nights, tying up some loose ends and enjoying this little town we've come to know pretty well. We've been attending Geshe Sonam Rinchen's teachings again at the Tibetan Library of Works & Archives. This time the text is the famous Nagarjuna's MulaMadyamika (Treatise on the Middle Way). We think Geshe Sonam is a brilliant teacher. And his translator, Ruth Sonam, is equally remarkable. They are a wonderful team and anyone who has seen them likens them to an old married couple (they have been "together" as teacher/translator for some 25 years!). You can find books by them at the Snow Lion Publisher's website.
From here we are intending to go either back to Delhi, to meet up with Mary's mother (I'll let her tell the story) or first to Dehradun to stay/work at Navdanya's Bija Vidyapeeth, the Seed University, a place founded to perserve biodiversity and help fund support for basic rights in food and water issues in India. This place was co-founded by Vandana Shiva who has written many books on these issues and who is in Italy, I believe, right now where my former WWOOFing host Mom from Seattle is also, at the Terra Madre conference for the International Slow Food Movement. Exciting!
Well..
Right now Mary is in a 2&1/2 hour yoga class that I wasn't feeling up to, so I've come in here to write you all but now I think I'll go for a walk!
Bye for now...
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The farmer that we sell rice and almonds for is also at the Slow Foods Festival in Italy! Small World!
Looking forward to Christmas with mulled apple cider and good peeps!
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