Delhi Day 2

Hey Everybody!  Greetings from India!

So we have been having some really good discussions I want to share.  Yesterday for lunch we had this really good Indian food and discussed Buddhism.  Pretty much we started talking about individual or unified souls, and ended up having to breakdown the entire Self anatomy.  Whether emotions come from the brain or the heart is apparently still under debate.  Then today we have been working on solving the economic problems here, since there is so much wealth and capital but the money isn’t spread to the poorer neighborhoods at all.  It’s really hard to make sense of the poverty around us but we are working through it.  Everyone’s having some culture shock but the groups really good at talking, and at taking care of each other.

Today we went to the Baha’i Lotus Temple, the Gandhi Memorial Museum, and Akshardam.  I enjoyed everything, and Gandhi’s memorial was very inspiring.  They have the path he walked out of his home the day he was assassinated marked with the footprints along the way.  It was sort of eerie, and reminded me of Ford’s Theater in a way.  Then the rest of the memorial and museum celebrated his life in very interesting ways, it was filled with inspiring quotes.  The museum had a lot of interactive exhibits and video clips, and my only regret was that we didn’t have much time to watch them.  Also, Akshardam has a wall around it covered with elephants, so I could spend all day there too, just with that wall.  I love elephants and really hope we get to ride some.  We had to move through the sites a little quickly to fit everything in, however we will have time to visit them again when we return to Delhi if we choose.  We can either go to sites or go shopping, an easy choice for me. 

Apparently I’ve been getting ripped off, but once you do the conversion, paying an extra couple hundred rupees is only a loss of a few bucks.  Everything here is so cheap!  I’d pay even more for this stuff; it’ll be so special when we’re home.  Oh well, no more impulse buys for me, maybe.  Also you’ll be glad to know nobody’s gotten sick yet, and we are adapting to the heat more every day, so no worries there.  Spirits are high and we’re learning lots.  Thanks for following our blog, and I miss all you back in the USA!

Peace,

Frank Dembowski