After three days of meditating, being mindful of the minute, and being led around by an ominous bell, we had a Dhamma talk. The monk told us, "no look to man, look to nature." So we did.
I try to write about Ko Lipe and I end up lying in bed, smiling for an hour. That a place like this exists is a big, fat WOW. A sparkling island with no cars, no franchises, or large developments. Just four gorgeous beaches and a collection of trails and shortcuts that lead you through pockets of this tiny world.
We spent a day boating and snorkeling around the nearby islands. The water is invitingly warm and the lengthy shallows offer up a flood of life. We played with giant clams straight out of the cartoons, lost our vision (and a little skin off our fingers) in mobs of fish, evaded the Jellies, and rippled through the current with a squiggle of squid. Very cool.
The whole place feels like a weird dream. Like you're a castaway. Stranded within a brilliant self-sustaining world, built just for you. It was the perfect place to let the enormity of the past five months sink in, and to recharge our batteries for the upcoming months in India and Nepal.
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Looks far more interesting than abstinence...Hell Ya!!! Send an email soon.
Posted by: dad "W" | February 18, 2009 at 06:37 AM
More Shhhhhhh....Glad you're back up. Just a guess here, but I bet you'll have more stories that I'll enjoy from the 10 days with the monks than from any other part of the trip.
Only a hunch...but as they say in Toadsuck--Cletus Knows.
Posted by: Cletus | February 19, 2009 at 04:58 PM