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Engaging tradition with the everyday world.
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Fireside_Hindu
Jai Lakshmi Maa
That's not a bad idea. It gives you a quite place for reflection without the pressure of performing rituals. You can always bring japa beads if you need something to focus on. Or, on trick I use when I travel somewhere without a temple - I have a Lakshmi magnet that sticks perfectly inside an empty altoid tin. So I can open it up and prop it on a table. It's a traveling mandir!
That's not a bad idea. It gives you a quite place for reflection without the pressure of performing rituals. You can always bring japa beads if you need something to focus on. Or, on trick I use when I travel somewhere without a temple - I have a Lakshmi magnet that sticks perfectly inside an empty altoid tin. So I can open it up and prop it on a table. It's a traveling mandir!
I built a custom box, contains our main scriptures, smaller traveling murthies, japa beads, and the box itself is the stand. We do sadhana in the hotel rooms before hitting the road. I quite like the couple of Buddhist spaces I've been in, and the one gurdwara. You're right, they're empty spaces, but really peaceful empty spaces. Great place to do japa, and just like with us, nobody there is going to bother you at all. There is another Buddhist temple near hear I have to go to one day. Right near you, in Santa Cruz, there is an excellent Buddhist retreat center. We attended a (Hindu) retreat there about 4 years back.
http://landofmedicinebuddha.org/
There is a Buddhist temple about 40 minutes up the side of a mountain from where I'm currently staying. Wouldn't hurt to visit it, but finding the time in the midst of studies is key.
There actually is a Gurudwara in Seoul, but it requires going through back alleyways in multiple run down, shady looking neighborhoods. Still, it may not hurt to go on some Sundays for meditation, bhajan, and langar.
How is school going, BTW? And the culture shock? We're waiting.
School's going well. Classes will really into full gear this week, and then I'll be busy with paper writings and field excursions. The only thing I'm a tad disappointed in is that my ecumenism class only applies to Christianity. I wanted to visit a mosque downtown and my professor said they would prefer if we visited churches.
Oh well, I'll probably go to the Anglican Cathedral; as I've never been inside an Anglican church before.
As for culture shock, the biggest barrier is the language. Other than that, there's been nothing too shocking.
Actually, I'm excited for a couple of weeks from now, as the international students are going to be celebrating Korean Thanksgiving at a Professors house.
GoodbyeDave
Well-Known Member
Some may be, but some not. We have a saying in English "Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." I once compared the evolution of a religious tradition to a city, where "... some buildings become neglected and eventually are demolished; others are renovated as historic monuments, admired rather than used ... new buildings are added: some temporary, others hopefully permanent; some to become loved, others to be scorned."