Posts for August, 2008

August 30, 2008

Zen, Music and Madness

In between excursions around Laguna Beach with the James family, I meditated in my room under a print of Van Gogh’s sunflowers. I was also faithfully keeping my journal.
I had an experience just before I left for Hawaii of waking up within a nightmare, still dreaming, but conscious enough to begin to chant a mantra. [...]

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August 23, 2008

Foot of the Mountain

Back in the Cowichan Valley, my friend Robert James introduced me to Jeevan Singh Mangat, an elementary school teacher and gentle friend who hired me to work on a government funded (LIP grant) project called KARMSAR, an attempt to form a bridge between the East Indian, mainly Sikh community and the local community which was [...]

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