Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@HootenWilson In a Buddhist temple this week. Mid-service, the lama turned to a very elderly, luminous one: "Tell Nick why we do what we do." So profoundly sincere in her aspiration to free others from suffering, she wept as she spoke. I took a Christian humbling. A heart vowing to remain.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Dec 2025
29 years ago, a wandering mendicant, I tried hitching to Texas. 24 eventful hours later, but 25 miles along and utterly lost, I was stumbled upon a Buddhist gonpa. Shock: I had no idea Tibetans were anywhere near. This morn, I was back for the first time. Next door neighbors now.
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Inside the gonpa during a 4-hour service this morning.