I’ve always been an avid reader of Air Asia’s in-flight magazine Travel 3Sixty. This article they featured on November 2015 issue is one of the best so far – narrating the experience of the magazine’s editorial visit to Tebedu near Kuching in Sarawak. The idea of a visit came about when a school teacher named Larrie Jessika wrote to Travel 3Sixty to apologize for stealing a copy of the magazine because he really wanted to share the stories about the…
It was winter of 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama went into exile and the prophecy made by Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, was being fulfilled in a terrible way. This ostensibly 1,200-year-old prophecy says: “When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like the ants across the face of the earth and Buddhis teachins will reach the land of the red man.” The iron birds, or Chinese planes, were…
This coming to terms with fate is not giving in, not giving up ; It’s gaining control. How many aggressive people of the West, claiming to be in control of their lives with fame, money or power, fall to pieces at the first sign of losing some of those? And such is life, that you lose sometimes; all things change, there is no permanence.. Ma Thanegi – The Native Tourist