“The Way is not the Sky”

 

“The way is not in the sky. 
The way is in the heart”. 
(The Buddha – Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

This Tibetan monk was watching the Himalayan hills from the ramparts of Hemis Gompa (monastery) in Ladakh.
There was almost a complete silence around us, I could only feel the cold wind wrapping my body and soul, maybe it was the lungta, this mythical Tibetan creature from pre-Buddhist times that combines the speed of the wind and the strength of the horse to carry prayers from earth to the heavens…