That’s the me of yesteryear; before I lost my sight. 

Who was I then? Hmmm… I had a spiffy haircut. I had loads of friends. I loved playing, running, hiding and seeking. I loved kissing my mom and dad good night. I hated feety pjs – too binding and hence my abhorrence to this day of wearing button shirts and ties. Yuck! I had no prejudices – except for a general dislike of peas and a predilection towards the color blue.

It was my wont to wander. I would find something that caught my eye and I would drop everything to explore. Still do. I did a lot of exploring and unlearning in my travel articles in Australia entitled The Buddha’s Striptease. That was the beginning when I realized life was not in the amassing of knowledge, in wealth or in various personas. Life was not in the addition but in the subtraction. I am living each new day less than I was before. 

I am still on my personal Striptease. Follow along and sing if you know the words.

My goal is to be that tyke of yesteryear and see once again.

Buddha's Mood:

Buddha's Top 10 List:

TV

 

1.   The Buddha’s Striptease: Naked in Oz Tour 2001, The Naked Buddha
2.   Awareness, Anthony DeMello
3.   Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
4.   The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
5.   The World According to Garp, John Irving
6.   Awakening the Buddha Within, Lama Surya Das
7.   Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness, Berkely Breathed
8.   The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
9.   Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
10. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

Movies

1.   Try Whistling This, Neil Finn
2.   Haunted, Poe
3.   Temple of Low Men, Crowded House
4.   Fear, Toad the Wet Sprocket
5.   The Globe Sessions, Sheryl Crow 
6.   Crowded House, Crowded House
7.   Version 2.0, Garbage
8.   Beneath the Velvet Sun, Shawn Mullins
9.   Wild Gift, X
10. Achtung Baby, U2