Madison, WI, USA — August 23, 2010

From Ven. Roger:

Geshe Sopa Rinpoche’s monastery, Deer Park, is located outside of Madison, Wisconsin in a rural area.

Rinpoche teaching at Deer Park

While at Deer Park, Rinpoche has been exercising daily by walking  in the  early evening as the sun is going down. We walk for an hour along a narrow country road, corn fields on either side. Rinpoche walks in front and recites a text out loud,  each day a different one. I walk behind closely watching for  cars, sometimes doing emails on the Blackberry and trying to keep the speed at a good pace. Every time a car goes by Rinpoche  waves. Most of the time people look surprised but wave back happily. Warm country folk.

Rinpoche walking amongst the corn

One day Rinpoche had a hand puppet so when he waved a funny looking dog with big ears was actually waving!  Then Rinpoche would  go back to reciting the text loudly.  The area attracts lots of mosquitoes and other kinds of sharp biting insects! Rinpoche isn’t interested in any protection and thinks it is just a small offering to these little guys.

Tags: deer park, lama zopa rinpoche

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