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Cave in the snow. A western woman’s quest for enlightenmentSentimental love is very unstable, because itÁ€™s based on feed-back and how good it makes you feel. That is not real love at all.Á€™ It may not have been psychological but there was severing going on in Tenzin PalmoÁ€™s life just the same. As it turned out, the SuperintendentÁ€™s edict had a far more dramatic effect than terminating her retreat. It brought to an end an entire era. Now the utterly unexpected happened. After a lifetime of being enamoured with the East in general and Tibetan Buddhism in particular, she began to feel the pull of her own culture. For the first time in the twenty-four years that she had been living in India, the West beckoned. She explained: Á€˜I felt my time in India had drawn to a close, that I needed to get back to the West and rediscover my roots. After all, I am not Tibetan. When I worked in the library in Hackney I had a boyfriend who was into classical music, architecture, art, old churches, that kind of thing. He loved to talk about it all and go to concerts and galleries. I was very fascinated ...» |
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