Hurtigruten Day 8

"Our one longer stop was in Hammerfest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest ---the northernmost city in the world and as we walked up the hill to the lookout tower, there was a reindeer in the backyard of an ampartment complex chomping away on the delicacies in the garden---soft flowers and other ornamentals. Back on the ship we passed unbelievably beautful scenery again---mountain and water and cloud and light and now and green..."

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"Doing meditation, or any spiritual practice, because we want to be something special in the future is not the point of Zen practice. The point is to be free where we are now. Where we are is also the beauty of existence."

-Katagiri, p. 126-