The Wisdom PathImagine a tree 2 feet in diameter split straight down the middle, bark stripped from the round side. The flat side has Chinese characters carved in it. 260 words are used, 38 wooden collumns enscribed with the Heart Sutra are placed in a figure 8 (the symbol for eternity) rising from the hillltop. Each collumn faces the same dirction around the 8, thus the front sides face out on 1/2 the 8 and in on the other 1/2. The heart sutra describes the real...

Just a short postcard for everyone! I've arrived in Hong Kong. Safe and sound. I've just been tooling around town today and ran into this internet cafe. (Ironically, it's inside a McDonalds.) No new pictures downloaded yet, but I'll get to that soon enough. For those of you interested, there's a 12 hour difference (13 for some of you), so your day is my night. It was a fairly easy transition, surprisingly enough. Guess all that excitement kept...