Journal Entry 10.2.23

Water is an important part of this journey. Each time we cross a stream or a river or I see a waterfall in the distance I say an unbinding prayer. Water takes away pain, sin, and filth. Water cleanses and cools. Water releases. Water also renews and refreshes. Without water nothing can grow.

This morning I lost my phone as we were trekking. As the others went to look for it I looked down into a glacial stream and focused my unbinding prayers on loss and shame. I let the roiling river carry my shame away and then I laughed with my friends that Guru Rimpoche was trying to help me with my attachment issues. We joked that you only lose things so that you have an excuse to return. I am trying to gain from my losses again. They feel less life threatening.