Lost and Found...
After a sabbactical from my sabbatical I'm back on the path. My meditation was wrought with insights into the essence of this journey.As always I'm full of paradoxes and many other things.Leaving New York because of its overwhelmingly consumer-driven, materialistic aura I found myself in it's antithesis, Mother India. Just as overbearing I missed "the middle way". One cannot find solace or focus when their senses are constantly being barraged by all that is India. Fleeing to the Himalayas was sublime. I found my Shangri-la in the comfort of the Tibetan people. The availability of the Dalai Lama's temple was an easily accessible meditation refuge and being in the casual presence of so many monks made it a perfect breeding ground for my practice. Unfortunately, it was also a breeding ground for what I'm dubbing the next supervirus which emerged under the guise of an upper respiratory infection. Having to dry out, I fled the monsoon rains of Northern India with the intention of trekking through Nepal. That plan was thrown out due to all these people getting blown up on buses or caught in the crossfire between the Maoist rebels and the King. Already losing the battle to infection, I also opted to avoid the outbreak of Japanese Encephilitis infecting thousands in the next region on my itinerary.
Thailand,anyone? The land of smiles, sounds good to me after all the scowls and stares I'd been enduring. Beautiful white sand beaches, emerald green 85 degree water and Thai food, I'm there. Rich in Buddhist history and culture it's Population is 95 percent Buddhist and there are many temples,shrines and monastaries to explore. Of course, most people come to Thailand for much different reasons.Much different reasons!
To be continued...(after I get a little Pad Thai)
Thailand,anyone? The land of smiles, sounds good to me after all the scowls and stares I'd been enduring. Beautiful white sand beaches, emerald green 85 degree water and Thai food, I'm there. Rich in Buddhist history and culture it's Population is 95 percent Buddhist and there are many temples,shrines and monastaries to explore. Of course, most people come to Thailand for much different reasons.Much different reasons!
To be continued...(after I get a little Pad Thai)
posted by Maddie and Matt at 8:03 AM
9 Comments:
No need to justify the path that your travels or this lifetime has intented for you. Although people may constantly question the anomaly that you are...judge your unconventionality...disagree with your decisions...become frustrated w/ your dogma and paradoxes... none need no explanation. You’ve taken on a journey that’s a rarerity, unconcievable for most of our peers to embark on and who will never set foot outside the corridors of their comforts...It’s so uncommon for many to be able, or have the desire to observe real strife (and I don’t mean not having cable or getting that end of the year bonus!), but most importantly, realizing that there’s beauty behind those struggles...Like your awakening, your realizations...and how it’s humbled you on so many levels. As the Buddhist doctrine teaches, "Seeing and experiencing suffering is one of our greatest teachers." So I would hope that India helped solidify that major societal ills still exist... do persist... and are issues we shouldn’t shun, but rather seek to resolve. My hope is that what manifested in this journey is the shedding of ones ego and the affirmation that we can all be humbled and "be the change we wish to see in the world."
Remember, that your experiences are a gift, your stories are an inspiration, a humbling nudge to all of us sitting luxuriously in front of our computers or standing around "the floor" helping the rich get richer (no offense)... So be it the emerald waters of Thailand or the serene pastures of the Himalayas, what matters is that you’ve come to a spritual and inner transformation and are willing to share with us this radical, but beautiful change... One luv, madz
We all miss you on the trading floor!! Hope you come back to work real soon...
Beautifully said and true to whoever Mads is. Still glad your in Thailand and not in India.
Who's Madz? One love brother, sister.
"none need no explanation", is a double negative, that would mean he does need an explanation. he must be writing the blog for some reason either to justify himself, look for approval from others or to enlighten himself and others. In all of these cases he does need to explain his actions. If he does'nt he might as well be a teenager on spring break.
These comments suck especially the first one "POMPAS" Matt enjoy thailand dont come back! stay there and enlighten the new generation you will start, The Rasta-Buddaha-freedom-fighters.
WITOUT THE FLOOR .... There would be no such thing as India or Thailand.
Matt "IS" one of us!!!!!!!!
Maybe we could all work for a great uncorrupt organization like the U.N. the U.N makes the floor look like a monastary.
Did hell freeze over!!!! You know what a double negative is????
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