“Lesson of the Mountains”
“Such glorious natural beauty would have been hard for almost anyone to resist. It was as if the Himalayas existed to serve as the ultimate test for those seekers determined to rise above any and all attachments to which a human being might be susceptible. Theo saw the gnawed pink chocolate; he saw the muscled Norse warrior; but neither of them mattered to him in the least. The one thing that did matter was the vibrant Being radiating out of those mountains, shining inside of and pouring down out of that sun, the Being that constituted Him, the world, and everything in it, from the smallest gnat to the most unimaginably large supergalaxy. And Being was what he saw.”