Bodhinatha wrote from Chennai saying they had completed a day long series of meetings there.

The Innersearch team offers some thoughts for you to ponder today:

Bodhinatha and Saravananathaswami are generating ideas for our coming Innersearch travel-study program, 2008> They are giving special attention at this time to the three “retreat” periods of several days each, along the way. There, the participants will enjoy congenial accommodations in pleasant surroundings, relax, go for walks, meditate and take all the time they need to put into practice what they are learning. Especially attractive will be classes on meditation by Bodhinatha during those beautiful days.
The journey includes Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Malaysia and India. Seehttp://www.himalayanacademy.com/innersearch/

A small group of visitors today… enjoying the temple gardens on the way to Iraivan Temple.

Shama shows them Dakshinamurthi under His banyan tree.

Twenty dancers from Hawaii are taking a journey to India in January. They are all part of the hula halau of Roselle Bailey, second from the right. Five of them came today to connect with the temple, write prayers for their journey and visit Iraivan.

Roselle explores the stone ball in the lion’s mouth.

Dawn is charmed, too. They will dance in Madurai, Tuticorin, Chidambaram, Pondicherry, and perhaps at Rameshwaram. There will be Indian folk and classical dancers on stage, too, making for a cultural exchange between the countries and their peoples. They were off to practice all afternoon after their tour with Palaniswami.