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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 unheralded piece of roadside art, a Native American looking to the heavens, is always compelling, though I have passed it many a time. It’s a striking visual eulogy for both a people and a way of life, and invites further reflection on the arc of both shared and private history, bringing us, perhaps, to a measure of the present moment: how IS my life going? Any changes needed? Artist(s) unknown – even the Town Clerk had no idea.
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This was the first time I had ever seen a fisher cat. They apparently are ferocious predators, but this young female, in the stillness of death, lying on a road surrounded by the forest and pastures she roamed, belies that reputation. I feel sadness at the passing of this wild and beautiful creature, and offer a prayer for the journey.
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