Happy New Year.

Today is the Buddhist new year, if you follow the Mahayana tradition. A time of reflection, for those of us already full on into the swing of things past January 1st? School's back in session, work's on the go, that first paycheck of 2006 is juuuuusst within our grasp... In the words of Kalu Rinpoche: "Through mantra, we no longer cling to the reality of the speech and sound encountered in life, but experience it as essentially empty. Then confusion of the speech aspect of our being is transformed into enlightened awareness."

Less talk, more pictures. Happy New Year.

Later.