Well its off again! Tomorrow a return journey to Sera. This time with Andrea and Tim.
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Big Love to All!
Billbo
Monday, January 25, 2010
Friday, December 18, 2009
Moving forward
www.wondrousjourney.net is now open. With this site I plan to share more of my travels. Photos, videos and books will also be available.
I will be returning to Sera at the end of January. This time my wife Andrea and 19 year old son Tim will be traveling with me. I can't wait to see India through Tim's eyes. While there I plan to shoot the final shots I need to complete the documentary I have been working on. Thanks for the love and support. Keep and eye here for update from India and please share this blog and my websites.
For those of you new to this blog I encourage you to look back through the older posts. You'll find many images from my trip to India last year and discover a bit about my journey.
Big Love,
Billbo
www.wondrousjourney.net
www.bodhileafproductions.net
I will be returning to Sera at the end of January. This time my wife Andrea and 19 year old son Tim will be traveling with me. I can't wait to see India through Tim's eyes. While there I plan to shoot the final shots I need to complete the documentary I have been working on. Thanks for the love and support. Keep and eye here for update from India and please share this blog and my websites.
For those of you new to this blog I encourage you to look back through the older posts. You'll find many images from my trip to India last year and discover a bit about my journey.
Big Love,
Billbo
www.wondrousjourney.net
www.bodhileafproductions.net
Friday, May 8, 2009
Where I am
There is so much suffering in the world. So much of it self inflicted. So much of it inflicted upon others. All of it simply our karma ripening. The causes and conditions we created over many lifetimes coming together to create the life we experience. Understanding karma may not make the pain any less, it may not make the persecutor or the oppressor go away. You need only to look at the plight of the Tibetan people to know that. A true understanding of karma will provide something for you that will give you a freedom you never thought you could have. It will take all power away from the oppressor, the persecutor, the bully. Once you have a realization of the truth of karma you can longer be a victim, pushed and pulled by the powers around you. You will see and understand that all things that come to you in this life come to you because you created the potential for them. If you want to know how you lived your last life, what kind of person you were, you need only to look at your condition in this life. If you want to know what your next life will be like you need only to look at how you are living this one. It is all up to you.
I pray that Mike's Mom came through her surgery today.
I pray that Mike's Mom came through her surgery today.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Pictures posted
Hi all. I've posted a bunch of pictures on flikr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32240358@N08/sets/72157611220462025/show/
I had pretty big computer issue where I lost a bunch of my work, as well as having to rebuild most of the computer. Sooooo I am now rebuilding the doc. It is probably just as well. I'm much happier with what I have going on now.
Bilbo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32240358@N08/sets/72157611220462025/show/
I had pretty big computer issue where I lost a bunch of my work, as well as having to rebuild most of the computer. Sooooo I am now rebuilding the doc. It is probably just as well. I'm much happier with what I have going on now.
Bilbo
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Space
When a great Lama was pressed to teach a patron how to meditate he said, "Do you know the space which exist between one thought and the next?"
"Why yes. Of course." replied the patron.
The Lama looked him in the eyes and said simply "Prolong it".
I find that since I have been back I struggle not to fill the space with the radio, the TV, the next battle or thoughts of the last. It was expected. It is what we do in the west. It seems that we in this country have a great fear of being alone with ourselves, with our thoughts. What is it that we are afraid we will see? What is it that lies within the silence that we are afraid to hear?
An image comes to mind of a Tibetan nomad. Alone he stands upon a high plain. The strong wind blowing in waves across the grass. In the distance, rising up from the plain giant snow mountains surround him. The sky is a deep blue and the sun shines brilliantly in the clear thin air. His company is his thoughts. He needs no radio or TV. Where do those thoughts take him? What does he fill the space with?
Perhaps if we persevere and prolong the moment, expand the space between those two thoughts the causes of our suffering will be revealed. Our attachments, our arrogance and our ignorance exposed for what they are.
Bilbo
"Why yes. Of course." replied the patron.
The Lama looked him in the eyes and said simply "Prolong it".
I find that since I have been back I struggle not to fill the space with the radio, the TV, the next battle or thoughts of the last. It was expected. It is what we do in the west. It seems that we in this country have a great fear of being alone with ourselves, with our thoughts. What is it that we are afraid we will see? What is it that lies within the silence that we are afraid to hear?
An image comes to mind of a Tibetan nomad. Alone he stands upon a high plain. The strong wind blowing in waves across the grass. In the distance, rising up from the plain giant snow mountains surround him. The sky is a deep blue and the sun shines brilliantly in the clear thin air. His company is his thoughts. He needs no radio or TV. Where do those thoughts take him? What does he fill the space with?
Perhaps if we persevere and prolong the moment, expand the space between those two thoughts the causes of our suffering will be revealed. Our attachments, our arrogance and our ignorance exposed for what they are.
Bilbo
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
New to this blog
Hi All!
If you are new to this blog you may want to go back through the archive on the right to get a feel for what I have written here before reading my Reflections entry. This will help somewhat with perspective. It is all un-edited without much time spent on the rules of grammar. I wrote from the heart about what I saw and what I felt.
If you would like to see some more photos check out
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32240358@N08/sets/72157611220462025/
Bilbo
If you are new to this blog you may want to go back through the archive on the right to get a feel for what I have written here before reading my Reflections entry. This will help somewhat with perspective. It is all un-edited without much time spent on the rules of grammar. I wrote from the heart about what I saw and what I felt.
If you would like to see some more photos check out
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32240358@N08/sets/72157611220462025/
Bilbo
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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