A dharamshala is a peculiar kind of place: a home built for people who do not intend to stay. Its walls and roof create a temporary refuge, but its purpose is to make further journeys possible.

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In the hyperion chronicles, I picture the zen gnostics traveling from place to place learning about their place in the universe.

During the board game Tokaido, travelers snap up photos, eat new foods, take baths, and live what I picture to be a zen gnostics life.

In picturing a frontier, we forget how much relies on an imagined community and codified knowledge.

So much of the world is new to any individual, if one has eyes to see it. No two trees are truly the same yet we lump and look beyond.

A friend and former cofounder recommended the book nostalgia for the absolute which encapsulates the Weird Western affliction well.

Zen gnosticism, along with its birth from zen Christianity and later transition into catholicisms rebirth, offers a mirror.