New Article in Perceptive Travel
byPlease enjoy my spankin’ fresh essay in the new issue of Perceptive Travel: Nothing to Achieve: In the Place of Enlightenment, Joshua Berman learns…
Please enjoy my spankin’ fresh essay in the new issue of Perceptive Travel: Nothing to Achieve: In the Place of Enlightenment, Joshua Berman learns…
Our last few days in India rush up to us in a flurry of night trains, rickshaw haggles, and last-minute site-seeing in Agra where…
The pre-dawn boat trip on the Ganges is an obvious once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that we do not neglect. The most difficult part is not waking…
“Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.†That is how…
A cold, pre-dawn train – the Doon Express – carries us from Gaya to the Cantonment Station in Varanasi, where we steel ourselves for…
On the last two mornings of our meditation retreat, Tay and I broke the rules and met each other at 6:00 a.m. on the…
The name of the course is “Yoga and Meditation: Journey to Awareness,” and it is exactly what we were looking for, but did not…
I never did get to hear Sarmishtha play her sitar.
Since we orginally opted for a domestic flight from Delhi to Calcutta (back in August), our current westbound journey by rail and bus completes…
The last Buddhist teaching I received was in Kalimpong, in the tiny “Road to Lhasa” eatery, whose Tibetan owner, Ola, espoused the Buddha’s teachings…