Matthew and I have been staying at ashram housing since we arrived in Tiruvannamalai. It’s in high demand, and is by donation, so you can only stay a limited stretch; we’ve been allowed a week, which is pretty good, partly because we’ve also both volunteered to help with the website a little while we’re here. We’re given three meals a day (plus tea, of course). We have a little room, sparse and bare, with two fairly hard single beds and a small desk, in the most desirable section of ashram housing; private, closest to the mountain, furthest from the street.…
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The month at the Krishnamurti Educational Centre is almost over. It’s back to Vancouver soon for two weeks, probably hectic weeks of trying to get everything done before traveling (including, quite possibly, rearranging most of my travel bookings thus far). I have no idea what this is going to be like for my brain, after a month of relative isolation and the vastness of the sky and sea and moments of intense inner turmoil along with intense inner stillness. I feel like this place is a refuge, in its own special timezone, and I’m so grateful to the people who…