The Monk and the Traveller:

My friend is going to France. And she told me in jest that her friend and her are going to do meditation there.

Another of my friend wants to go Melbourne to find peace, to get away from so many things around her, from so many things that are troubling her.

So the buddhists are going to the somewhere out there to find the Here. They are leaving in two weeks to find the Now.

And my friend is going abroad to get away from the issues so that she can return to them later. She is throwing herself on a plane to find herself.

So the Here is out there, the Now is later and the non-existent self is running away.



Samsara is Nirvana.