Earth and The Now

Albuquerque is a land of randomness as the "unusual" generally presents itself as the "ordinary." While hiking the paths close to my home a man runs past me barefoot (visualize snow and a tortured facial expression) followed 60 seconds later by man on a unicycle with full body armor (helmet, knee pads, chest guard, gloves, elbow pads) all beneath a hot air balloon floating near the horizon. Later in the week a woman (stranger) starts talking to me over coffee about her book on love in the 21st century followed by an hour conversation on dream analysis and her work as a therapist. This recent full moon seems to have brought unique moments of random occurrences and on a darker note poorly expressed emotions from the intoxicated traveling on Albuquerque's bus system.

Yet, to understand the human condition from an ayurvedic or yogic perspective is to understand the multiple layers within one's environment and not to be exclusive to a fraction of society. I find that traveling is one of the best educators in coming to reality with this social understanding, as leaving home and immersing one's self into the culture of another is the real teacher of differences within the human species. No great distance needs to be covered, just enough to hear a change in people's accent.
Living a mobile life for the past four years has lead to a great observance of the impact of environment on personality. From this, the most unique people I've met are ones who understand the environment on  profound levels on understanding. Much like the astrologer and the sky, the Alaskan and the forest, the Floridian and the beach, the Hindu and the temple. Many people dislike where they are living, (the US is too materialistic, India is too polluted, the weather sucks,) as I too have been one who has been critical of a location, where is spirit in this type of criticism? Where one is, is reality and constantly thinking of what is not is illusion.

Now...I have nothing more to say.