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Entering the Tiger's Nest of Bhutan [View all]
Leah McLennan, AAP Travel Writer, AAP February 3, 2012, 12:58 pm
All this struggling - climbing with leaden legs and oxygen-sapped lungs up a mountain - will result in much merit, my guide assures me.
"We need to accumulate merit to reduce suffering in the next world," Tsewang says.
"Each time I go I collect merit but afterwards I have a cigarette so I lose some."
There are many ways to increase merit, Tsewang says, through meditation, moral discipline and the three hour hike up to Tiger's Nest.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/lifestyle/12803438/entering-the-tiger-s-nest-of-bhutan/
All this struggling - climbing with leaden legs and oxygen-sapped lungs up a mountain - will result in much merit, my guide assures me.
"We need to accumulate merit to reduce suffering in the next world," Tsewang says.
"Each time I go I collect merit but afterwards I have a cigarette so I lose some."
There are many ways to increase merit, Tsewang says, through meditation, moral discipline and the three hour hike up to Tiger's Nest.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/lifestyle/12803438/entering-the-tiger-s-nest-of-bhutan/
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