Goa Journal from last season

 A small notebook 2 inches by 3 inches, housing little words and feelings, documenting a few P2C2E.

 

a bit about Page 1: It has sort of become a simple ritual to put down a rough set of intentions when I set out for a new place. Doing this in the middle of nowhere, I mean on a flight and then waking up at the destination. Probably much like birth. I used to think it was pretty much like Plato said, we sat on a chair and decided why we would be born in this matrix and wrote it down under a dim lamp at night.( To learn a few things- some learn about loss, or love, or safety or anger, mostly all. This could probably explain why it is sometimes easy to predict with natal charts, horoscopes and such, what might this birth be like.) Then we drink the water from the river of forgetfulness and are born crying, only to go through life, a strange video game and discover (or not!) the lessons we set out for ourselves.
But lately this idea is being replaced with the Buddhist view - birth is because of death and death because of birth, and the role of karma, conditioning etc and whole lot of other realisations about my self and the world. Anyway, I'm no authority on these matters, about Buddha and His Teachings, its best to read the book I've been gifted... I shall post excerpts from it someday.

PS: P2C2E : processes too complicated to explain (Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories.)