afternoon at monument national park...

we are at monument valley national park. it is breathtakingly beautiful!! we had planned on spending half a day here. instead we have decided to camp for the night.

it is the middle of the afternoon here and is extremely hot. we have just finished putting our tent but it is too hot for hiking or site seeing. Amit decided to sleep on a picnic table (with a shade) and i decided to catch up with some reading.

*** some interesting quotes from the book - “with one heart, bowing to the city of ten thousand buddhas”

“wisdom is practiced, not discussed”

“wisdom awaits discovery within our nature, but we have to cultivate it, uncover it, operate it”

“the past is dead, the future is blind, where is now? As soon as they say “now is now”, it’s already gone.”

“Changing bad habits is hard work. Attachments have momentum, they feel comfortable. Change required constant, steady pressure on the sore point, applying good dharma-medicine with patient courage until new, proper view replaces the old way of being. Lift the bandages too soon or leave the habit alone, and the illness returns.”