Bouldering in Joshua Tree, California (Summer 2009)

I’m totally igniting the Buddha within.

I’ve always been interested in East Asian philosophy, art, history, and so on, but Buddhism in particular has held a consistent and comforting place in my heart – or chakra. Sutra? I don’t know, but my guess is I will soon uncover a milieu of mantras to share and to hold dear. (Thailand is mostly comprised of Buddhists, btw.) In his sense, this trip is not just an adventure in newness, but it is, perhaps more poignantly, an exploration of what is already within me.

There was a time when I was younger – teenage years and early 20′s, for sure – when I was the baby of my circle of friends. I was the naive one, the one with a lot to learn, maybe even considered a little dim. Now, most of my friends are younger than me and I notice myself taking the position of an educator, or as one friend called me, “a healer”. In this sense, JS0 is definitely an extension of a path that I was already on to share the broader points of view in the world with people, and to be fueled by the core of human existence: love, beauty, and freedom.

I have no expectations of this trip other than that if I continue to be open, honest, and motivated by love and my actions and thoughts are processed with the appropriate energies, than I will assure myself a transformative experience indeed.

And my heart swells….

Adventure

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