https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/On the road less travelled in South East Asiahourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/647726I’ve made it. Today we can go. I’mwalking down the lane with this bloke called Harry from Adelaide, who’s tellingme about the current “situation” with his wife. It’s like exiting from a dreaminto a world of lost children. This whole thing has been such an incrediblestruggle with discomfort,...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/647357Things are breaking down a little.Several people have left and there have been wild rains, thunder, lightning,some small fish throwing themselves out of the lake by accident and trying towalk back on their fins. There seems to be a message in there somewhere. Somepeople have already started...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/647215Today I actually jump the fence andescape into the forest. After a few minutes I come across two completely nakedmen in a hot spring. Their clothes and a packet of cigarettes are on a stonebench nearby. Could these people be the spirit elves of the forest? Or a mirageset up by the monastery to...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/647041Every evening we are asked to sendloving kindness to the leader of our country. In fact sending loving kindnessto any politician is the tallest order I’ve had so far.Ok – I’ve promised not to read, write, talk to anyone, masturbate (alone orwith a friend), kill mosquitoes, wear perfume or use...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/646687Day 6 Reading – yoga – meditation - lecture from the incomprehensible monk- meditation - not bacon and eggs– lecture from the monk who doesn’t like us to have sex – red eyed sheep eatingglue…https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/646152… is definitely different. I’veslept in and someone’s trying to get into my room. “Please go outside.” “I didn’t hear the bell.” “You didn’t listen.” Rolling off the concrete slab toconfront the voice of trite authority is an ugly moment. I am suddenly wildlyangry and realize that I’ve been...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/645893Day 2 The same as Day One. Day 3 The same as Day Two. Unless this isDay Two. No. I was wearing a different shirt. I am beginning to understand howa snail feels.https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/645757Welcome to Day One 4am Rise on bell 4.30am Listen to a reading 5.30 – 7am Yoga 7-8am Breakfast (you can’t taste it at all) By 10 am it definitely feels likebedtime. A very old, wise, lovely monk comes to give us a lecture. He isobviously an important and respected man and has among his...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/GEOS_Watch/645646Are you the sort of person who really likes gettingbossed around? Do you like gettingup at 4am? How about eating a kind of tasteless vegetarian glue twice a day?Wooden neck-pillows? Serious lectures from virgins about theevils of sexual pleasure? Wat Suan Mok monastery is about 70 years old...