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I met Sensei at the airport in Tokyo, where we got straight into a Shinkansen bullet train to Kyoto and into Gion Matsuri mode. Her role as Gion Matsuri researcher, writer, and community member, however, has been mysterious, in a different way. She’s reintroducing the importance of the festival’s spiritual foundations, and the community of people who have kept it going for more than a millennia. Once you've figured out what you're going to do, get started. I was still cutting it close, getting the camera gear ready just in time to get out the 7am door… At some point, I lean against a wall, and get black tar on my brand new white jeans… No more black! More colour! I feel fresher, more cohesive. It is cute, like an attic, and I feel I am tucked away in a cocoon, sensing Sensei through the walls, hearing her wake up, stir, move about, rest, sleep. My alarm rings at 6am. I wake in the small wood-and-plaster tatami room, next to Sensei’s through the paper-thin sliding walls. I would creep down the creaking stairs to the small Japanese washroom, trying not to disturb her, focused on washing off the residual sweat from the hot summer night previous.

The route is considered one of the most beautiful, crossing many small villages in the mountains of the middle hills of Nepal. Jagat D. Ranjit, Robin R. Bellinder, Peter Hobbs, Nabin K. Rajbhandari and Palit Kataki, Mapping Phalaris minor under the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in Different Agro-Ecological Regions of Nepal. Upadhyaya K D, Pol K, A mental health prevalence survey in two developing towns of western region, Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2003; 4 2: pp. Two people, their digestive systems doing their thing. First thing after arriving in Japan, I shopped for presentable summer clothes-another years-long area of growth Sensei has beckoned me into. Catherine Sensei evolved into a teacher; my Teacher. When I came into this Dharma lineage about 18 years ago, Qapel (then Doug Sensei) was the principal Teacher. What does it mean to be attendant to, in service of, your spiritual teacher? The express service has fewer stops and relatively expensive while the local service has more stops along the way and relatively cheaper. Waling has local television network named WalingHD. To promote local culture Waling has one FM radio station Radio Aandhikhola - 105.4 MHz Which is a Community radio Station. Buses and Minibuses leave daily and regularly from Bhairahawa to Pokhara via Waling along the Siddhartha Highway.

There are also a number of taxis which leave from the Pokhara Prithvi Chowk. Most of those are affiliated with the Prithvi Highway Transportation Syndicate. From Pokhara, Beautiful female yoga couple there is a very frequent schedule of minibuses and buses affiliated with the Siddhartha Highway Transportation Syndicate leaves to Waling from Pokhara Prithvi Chowk and Buspark. From Kathmandu, there is a frequent schedule of public buses and minibus leaving at early morning, morning, early afternoon and evening from the Kathmandu Buspark and Kalanki Chowk. There is a frequent and daily schedule of buses and minibus run by the Siddhartha Highway Public Transport Syndicate, that leaves from Sunauli, Siddharthanagar and Butwal to Waling with their final destination of Pokhara along the Siddhartha Highway. But, dear friends, after 18 years of yearly, long meditation retreats, and constant training in the Dharma with very awake Teachers, I am of the opinion that there are places in my consciousness that are thick like mud, and that the filters we wear run very deep, for decades! Sensei stands slowly. I follow her into the meditation hall next to the zen garden. Sensei shares: She needs me to be even sharper.

In July, I travelled across the globe from Clear Sky in Canada to be an attendant to Catherine Sensei in Kyoto, Japan. For 1,150 years-since the year 869, a year of terrible epidemic-people have come together in the height of the summer, July, to ward off "evil spirits," disease, and pestilence, and to nurture the wholesome and positive, a.k.a., health-spiritual and physical. Next, Sensei points out some of the detail on the side of the float-in this case, a several hundred year old tapestry made by masterful artisans. Sometimes she turns to me and shares a history of this or that particular traditional storefront, or points out, Look: The beauty of a green lotus pad, sensitively present in a miniature pot pond, on the concrete pad at the foot of a concrete apartment building. The daughter of the king of Madra (name not given), who possessed good conduct and auspicious eyes, the daughter of Satrājit Satyabhāmā, Lakṣmaṇā whose smiles were beautiful, and Sudattā the daughter of Ṡaibya, who was like an apsara in her beauty.