Not two, but one now
When the other said hello at the door
How Durham Saved My Life and Restored My Faith
It was a cloudy Sunday morning in July when I drove to my client’s house in Durham. I had been missing my Asheville friends. That cute little mountain town had been the first stop in my relocation to North Carolina. I was easing my way back to the East Coast after ten years of living in Southern California and Asheville was my baby step towards living in the south. As a Tarot card reader and Massage therapist it was easier to find my tribes in quirky, laid back towns like these. Raleigh became a destination because I wanted to be closer to my family; namely my niece and nephew.
Guru rinpoche the Buddha of our time
Padmasambhava[1] (Skt.), or Padmakara (Skt. Padmākara; Tib. པདྨཱ་ཀ་ར་, པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་, Pemajungné; Wyl. pad+ma ‘byung gnas, in Sanskrit transliteration པདྨ་སམྦྷ་ཝ་) means ‘Lotus-born’, which refers to Guru Rinpoche’s birth from a lotus in the land of Oddiyana