tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2653564977513015035..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: When will they ever learn?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-46080052200275521052012-12-19T08:44:00.766+00:002012-12-19T08:44:00.766+00:00So very true, and it is not as if they would have...So very true, and it is not as if they would have had to travel far to learn. I read this morning of the passing, at the age of 101, of the Tibetan Master Artist Sherab Palden Beru, co-founder of the Buddhist monastery at Eskdalemuir, near Gretna, the first such monastery in the Western world.<br /><br />With regard to politicians living at the monastery, one would have to hope they didn't list it as their seconday residence and try to claim a mortgage thereon in their expenses, but otherwise, a month in Eskmuirdale sitting at the feet of a master in mid-winter might constitute a veritable crash course in cognitive skills.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com