You've certainly traveled the world and lived right down to the bone. I seem to have a parachute that never quite lets me fall that far (at least so far in this life). Of course we develop non-attachment to things but then we find things get attached to us as you wake up one day and want a big change and see all the hassle that is in the way to do that all because of the things that are attached. :)
Louis McKenzie wrote: > Wow Bhairitu I can relate to everything you have just > written. I left MIU in 1978/79... Then it was a > different place. Today I think of what it would be > like to live there again. Yet the one factor that > has not changed is the cold weather. I can say that > having lived in warm climates most of the last 30 > years, I have come to appreciate cold. I will never > forget walking one extremely cold and clear night and > feeling the lightness of the winter air. That was > the first time I felt the density of the air. I > could see why people like the cold. > I have young children now ages 3 and 11 and for > educational reasons I sometimes believe FF is more > ideal. >