Sunday, the 5th of August, 2007

Some more thoughts on leaving India, 2007

I guess the most disturbing one is the fact that all of the progress, learning and fun with the friends in McLeodGanj is on hold for the moment. I can't but wonder if this does not have something to do the Chinese Olympics; as we all know, Tibet does not exist. So, I will be telling all of my friends that I will not be back until after the Olympics. For me, Tibetans do exist and they are Tibet; so to actually conjur up and believe that you can exterminate something like this is absurd. So, from now until the end of the Olympics, it could be pretty crazy in McLeodGanj as, while the Indian Gov't is perfectly happy to help the refugees, the Indian people in McLeodGanj are not. Himalchal Pradesh is still pretty much of a "frontier" region and the Himalchalees like the situation that exists only the T-money, but not for anything else. If the Exiles were to leave, the whole place would pretty much dry up and shut down.

As for my own situation, I have left all of my back-up copy of the digital pictures that I have been taking with Chaitan in McLeodGanj. I am going to have to get them to Kathmandu somehow. I consider these pics to be a part of my "spiritual learning"; and for the Visa Dept. to have interferred in this way to be a breach of my practices and an attempt to stop what I am doing. So, even in India, the quintessential "spiritual" teacher; for me, I have had a baffling, screwed up, dark and dangerous trip. I sure do not know why because this is a personal matter; but not for me.

These are my thoughts for the moment.