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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism
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We discover the dream nature of our ordinary existence only when a shock momentarily wakes us up. When we come to, we realize we were sleeping; but soon the soporific forces lull us to sleep again. Most of our lives are lived in dreaming—day-dreaming or wake-dreaming—and we see the world through a glass darkly: this is the Vedantist’s experience of the thralldom of illusion or maya. —Ravi Ravindra, Pilgrim Without Boundaries L2499 Patan, Nepal, infrared