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Vajrayogini in the sky, ©2013 Lee Weingrad

Vajrayogini in the sky, ©2013 Lee Weingrad

A Retrospective Memoir, Part 3
Lhasa 1986

by Lee Weingrad

“It’s not a question of discovering who you are. It’s a question of discovering who you are not!”
Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 1984, Boulder

It was a strange thing for me to think, “I know everything about this place.” It wasn’t deja vu. It wasn’t an instant sense of, “I could live here,” the way I felt in Amsterdam in 1995. It wasn’t a feeling of love. It was instant connection and familiarity coming up from the earth, through the soles of my feet, in a way that Kathmandu was not. A week earlier I was riding with Tim Olmstead on his motor scooter through the crowded, exhaust-choked streets of Bodha. There were cows everywhere. Sacred cows. He said to me, “if you get into a traffic accident and hit a cow, leave the country.” Wow. That got my attention. It made me feel like I was in an episode of Star Trek that was left on the cutting room floor. Lhasa was not all that foreign.
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