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Uchujin, Falsalama and His Holiness the Dali Lama
Nothing like a good name drop, especially if it’s someone revered by millions of people world wide as a living god.
I recently came across this picture thanks to my dearest friend Falsalama (see my portrait of him HERE).
The original photo was taken by Claire Pullinger and this must have been taken in 1999, when Falsalama and I were soundmen for His Holiness in Bodh Gaya, India for his teachings over the millenium.
That’s Falsalama and me in the bottom left hand corner, looking tired and much much younger than we do today.
Wish I had a better copy of this photo, this was scanned from a calender that Claire Pullingers photo was used in, apparently.
Anyway, whatever, it’s a good excuse for a blog post and it’s visual proof that I sometimes need for when I’m drunk and start telling stories that start with “when I worked for the Dali Lama…..”
Om mani padme hung
Ogose
Had a lovely hungover day out in Ogose in Saitama with Falsalama and his lovely girlfriend recently.
A beautiful wood with several waterfalls.
Just what the doctor ordered, fresh deep lungfuls of air and nature weaving her calming spell on me.
Of course, I managed to find a little darkness in all that beauty, as is the uchujin way.
The inevitable darkness I managed to find was the poster below, tacked onto a public toilet.It says that on the 2nd of June a 27 year old man from Yamagata prefecture disappeared in the woods. What with the suicide rate in Japan being what it is I hope he’s ok.
And finally, we have this scary looking guy, 鬼蜘蛛 ’Onigumo’ in Japanese, which means devil spider (!), Araneus ventricosus, a species of orb weaving spider. Near where we had parked the car at the bottom of the wood there were many of them. Apparently not dangerous, but I don’t trust an insect or arachnid with that colouring!
I highly recommend Ogose if you find yourself out that way in ‘Dasaitama’ ;-)
Oh! you little monkies!
Driving back from a day trip with falsalama and his girlfriend the other day, we came across a huge 100Y shop…….. I havent laughed so hard in a very long time. (he asked me not to put these up on the interwebs but I just can’t help it, self mockery is essential I do believe…
Falsalama
Photographer, real ordained Nagpa (Tibetan Buddhist Tantric lay priest) and my vajra brother. Quite possibly the realest, most honest human being I know. He’ll try to tell you different but I taught him all he knows ;-) Last night I spent a few hours in a darkened underpass with Falsalama, taking this photograph of which…