Thursday, 11 September 2008

Live From Woodstock

One of my added contempo biking adventures brought me to Woodstock NY   That’s appropriate I said Woodstock… you apperceive I’m a hippie at affection   Just a avant-garde day iPhone-talking MacBook Pro-walking hippie

Hosts
The hosts for my adventures in Woodstock were columnist and all-embracing motivational apostle Victoria Moran and her bedmate William   Victoria has bound 10 books including Creating a Charmed Life has been on Oprah and loves raw food!  Sounds like the absolute aggregate to me now if I could just get on Oprah

The Past
Woodstock is what you ability accept absurd it to be a abode active in the present while still angry up to memories of the accomplished   Some locals came to the aboriginal Woodstock in 1969 and accept never larboard   Some are still blind about the city breadth cutting the aforementioned clothes from that era  

One allotment of me loves getting in that amplitude interacting with absorbing and admirable humans who backpack such active and addicted memories   Addition allotment wonders if they are afraid change by creating a safe abode to “live in ” even if that accomplished era doesn’t abide anymore   Of advance we wish to be present to the adulation that was acquainted but aswell facilitate the best way to acquaintance that adulation calm as a accomplished   This of advance does not exclude me from cutting hemp pants or giving hugs

After all yesterday’s annual accouchement are today’s parents and grandparents – who birthed a new bearing of acquainted present powerhouses of adulation and ablaze accessible to “create the change” we wish to see in this apple   We are the drummers the dancers the airy entrepreneurs the Raw Spirit Anniversary attendees the carriers of the bake

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Hiking
With all the traveling I accept been accomplishing hiking has been a rather desultory accident   Back I had some chargeless time I absitively to yield the befalling to backpack up Mead Abundance with my acquaintance Amy pictured at the top   We were hardly challenged with a rather consistently acclivous backpack to the top but were abundantly adored with an amazing animate belfry to ascend up and the best anchor about

I am in adulation with Copse

Presence
To achieve the cruise I visited Karma Triyana Dharmachakra a Tibetan Buddhist abbey set appropriate in the affection of the Catskills Mountains   This is the Arctic American apostolic bench of His Asceticism the Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje the airy arch of the Afterlife Kagyu Birth of Tibetan Buddhism

The abode was so serene   We were accustomed to roam the acreage and analyze their two temples   Amidst by candles statues and Buddhas I acquainted a quiet calmness as I knelt down on a mat and accomplished “presence ”  One of the monks was chanting and I anticipation that was a nice acquaintance to be afar of but all-embracing I was afflicted the a lot of with just blackout   Quiet a nice change from the hustle of NYC

Peacefully castigation
Philip

ps Appear apprehend me allege at the Simply Raw Festival in Canada or the Raw Spirit Festival in Arizona

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