Next Phase with disclaimer

Memo from MOM,,,,I am attaching this disclaimer, the details may be wrong. I am in fact doing all of those things, but where and when I am unsure of. During my phone conversation with Rick he gave me a lot of information. I wasn't able to grasp most of it, I was stuck on the fact that I am going to meet a walking buddha!

Ben

I leave for Hong Kong on the seventeenth. I'll stay there for three days. Then I am flying to Kunming. From there I will be going to Shangri La, unless Kunming is in Shangri La. I don't have a map handy, so I might sound somewhat clueless... Which, I am... some what.

I will be doing a couple things in Shangri La, both of which made my heart stop and my hair stand on end when I heard about them. The first, I will be working on a boat. Teaching and assisting. Whom am I assisting you ask? Well, the boat that I am going to be on is a hospital boat, and I will be working with doctors to care for the kids and the orphans that they picked up from the streets. Some of these kids were put onto the sex market at the age of twelve. Its absolutely disgusting, and atrocious what these kids have gone through.
I told one of the staff members at the Snow Lion(where i am staying for a couple of days) about these kids and she began to cry. Those tears, I realized, are one of the reasons I am here. It is that feeling that we all experience when we hear about the horrible things that people live with that is driving me.
It is that indignant voice that rises up from within the deepest part of our selves that I am listening to. I keep telling people that this is not my journey, but ours. It comes off sounding like BS, but it is the truth. I am here for everyone who feels angry at the nastiness that seems to plague our wonderful world. I am here to walk the walk, for you, for me, for those people who cry when they hear about the prostitution of an eleven year old.
The second, during my time in Shangri La, or Cambodia, or Tibet... Wherever it is I am going, I am going to meet what the Tibetans refer to as a "walking buddha." Basically what that means is that he is considered to be a reincarnation of a lama. He was born enlightened. And I am going to meet him. The Dali Lama witnessed his birth after having a vision!!! And I am going to be talking to this guy!!!

And you should hear about the guy that is going to be my guide during my time in Shangri La. He is a nomad. When he was young he was taught by someone who followed his tribe in a van! that man then took the smartest of his students into the city to take the high school the examination. They all passed! But, they weren't allowed to continue their education because they didn;t have a certificate from a school! BS, I know. Well, he knew that he needed an education. So, he trekked over the Himalayans, almost died from elevation sickness, arrived in the Tibetan retreat in India, had to run away from the Chinese police that were waiting for him at their gates to intercept him and climb over the wall. Then, after getting his education he snuck back into china to find his tribe. Soon thereafter Rick met him... I mean, come on, this is nuts!!!

So off I go....