Toronto, Buffalo, Charlotte, Houston
There is no way that anyone can humanly walk this distance from city to city in one day. It’s possible though via air travel. For a good ten hours or so, my legs hardly moved and yet they were in motion (along with my other body parts of course). It was actually a car drive from Toronto to the Buffalo airport, a dragged out, snail-paced traffic at the two cities in precarious winter road conditions, a thorough questioning session at the border with security, then the flight within America that filled out the day with godsisters, Subuddhi and Praharana, senior members of our temple in Toronto.
The modern age has opened up so many new possibilities for the contemporary pilgrim. In Houston, Krishna monks, nuns and family folks all of servant-leader status on the continent, came from far and wide to discuss how the spiritual quality of life can be inserted in to North American life pattern. Thanks to the bird that gave us the concept of flight and horse power that gave us the concept of speed over soil. And for the efficiency of internet, skype and so on, gratitude can be extended to the ancients that communicated with the Supreme Divine, who is so near yet so far simultaneously.
0 Km on foot, thousands by air.
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