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Day 9 – Behind the Scenes – Part II: Returning Home
Last update: 29 October 2010 11:50AM (GMT+08:00)
Reported by Sherwin Ng.
Personally, a lot of the ancient forms seen here can be re-applied with my Feng Shui consults back home; and the Landform pictures can be used during my Feng Shui classes. This year's excursion has been a spiritually-fuelling journey for me - temples and other spiritual places have been a longtime fascination for me since young. A lot of these places seen here in China would not be accessible to me (or the students) without Joey's painstaking research, recee trips, and talking to many, many villagers while traversing off-beaten roads and jungle (sometimes, caves!) - the Indiana Jones for Feng Shui, if you may.
For example, the Wang ancestral burial site, today no longer there, but the Feng Shui structure still is (with half a tomb). Or the Pei ancestor tomb smack in the middle of a rice field today - how do you even begin to find that? The places are obscenely obscure... the things one would do in the name of passion and knowledge. A labor of love indeed.
I'm writing from Grand Brahmaputra Hotel, Lhasa, Tibet.
There are two oxygen tanks in our room, and 10 oxigen cans for outdoor use. The air here is thin and oxygen is scarce at this altitude. One room mate has already slept, the other still going through the pictures from all of part 1 of the excursion. Me, I'm just glad I have the time to write this one and send it in without being bleary eyed.
On the bus from the airport to our Lhasa hotel just now, the tour guide mentioned that the Lhasa river flows from East to West... isn't that another spiritual water form?
I steal a glance around this cosy hotel room, scattered with cameras, chargers of all sorts, 3 laptops, and two snoring colleagues... can't help but smile, nudged by a sense of gratitude. This kinda journey changes you. You come home a bigger person. After all, this is such a big, unpredictable place - and I am literally at the top of the world already, Tibet.
Tomorrow: Potala Palace. So I bid you good night for now.
Reported by Sherwin Ng.
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