winter at mount laguna
The trail leading to garnet peak is all snowed in. It stopped raining about 5 days ago and I didn't expect so much snow. I came to hike to Garnet Peak. I
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the way, the truth and the life at the Zen Mountain Center
Che showed me the way to the Zen Mountain Center. It's one of those days when I felt like praising the the Lord. But it is not my first visit to a Buddhist temple, it's the second in recent years. I was expecting the Ling Yen Mountain Temple kind of grandiosity that I saw in Richmond BC during a visit to Vancouver, Canada a few years back. There were no shaved robe-wearing monks chanting oms all day. There was only this hamlet-like community in the idyllic idyll in the foothills of Idyllwild wilderness. To this inglorious wanderer, the Ling Yen Mountain Temple and the Zen Mountain Center were a study in contrasts.While the Ling Yen Mountain Center is located in the center of a bustling Richmond BC metropolis, the Zen Mountain Center is nestled to the peace and quiet of Mountain Center, a census designated place at the foothills of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto National Forests. The palatial Ling Yen Mountain Temple is based on the ...