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Karme Choling is a Shambhala Buddhist meditation retreat center situated on a former dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom of VT. The old incarnation is still very much in evidence: the same meadows and streams, and maybe even the same buildings, albeit reinvigorated for a community of meditation practitioners. The two latest incarnations, of how many?
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Looking upstream from the one lane bridge which serves as the entrance to the property.
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The stupa in the upper meadow, where Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was cremated, and where his ashes remain.
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This beautiful granite bench can be found in a small park overlooking the Housatonic River on the east side of the West Cornwall covered bridge. Many stories flow out of this sculpture: intuited, imagined and in the end largely unknown, but nonetheless resonant. Stories are revealed in the Joel Sternfeld photo book, On This Site, that I passed up earlier in the day at a church basement sale – the tragedies a little too jarring for a beautiful spring day.
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The winter solstice, or the “return of the light”, has been celebrated across the globe from time immemorial. Christmas Day, the annual observance of the birth of Jesus Christ, is generally believed to have borrowed heavily from those earlier solstice traditions. The candlelight service here is at the Deep River Congregational Church.
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This is one of the ways to get to the guest house, located on the other side of the road from where Nina Gitana lived.
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a pre- dawn prayer service: dawn and dusk, ” the hinges of the day”, are considered especially opportune times for prayer at the Priory, as well as in other spiritual traditions
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