Twenty hours travel

Thirteen thousand kilometres

Twelve days

Eight master teachers

Nine companions

Two intuitive healers

One goal-

Student of Mindfulness

Cut off

from the news and the noise

of the outside world

Making room for the sounds of

mosquitoes, waves, melodic chants

Ancient insights

Penetrating open hearts

Inviting willingness to look inside

Darkness comes to light

Painfully unearthed

Giving rise to truths buried deep

Shame, fear, anger, judgement,

Making encore appearances

Moments of heavy toxic carnage dissolved

through simple awareness of

ever-changing flow of experience

A new moment

Chiming bells

Awakened through shifting winds atop four hundred and twenty step staircase

Overviewing lush mountains and cityscape-

Stirring the heart

The dance of mating butterflies -

Joyful rapture

Nipping fish arousing childlike glee

While sharing their home at waterfall base

Attention darting outwards

Sunset palettes shining on shifting, shimmering shores

Choir of cooing, crowing, cawing

An original score

Heartstrings pulled,

Ancient insights flowing through a craving heart

Know it

Mindful awareness pulling back

Reset

Again

And again

Twenty hours travel

Thirteen thousand kilometres

Two hundred and four photos

Twenty six hundred year old ancient insights flowing

Through ONE grateful heart

Inspired to share