China travel stories: Langmusi, Shangri-La, Tagong Grassland, and more. Scenic photos, Buddhist wisdom, and personal reflections from Sichuan to Yunnan.
🌧️🌸😢 Rain showers at noon, rain showers at noon, Like tears not passing through the hilltops. Spring flowers fall, spring flowers fall, Falling endlessly without reaching summer. // Mưa ban trưa mưa ban trưa, như nước mắt không qua ngọn đồi Hoa xuân rơi hoa xuân rơi, rơi rơi mãi không qua mùa hè (Mưa … Read more
👭🏾🌆💫 Go for a walk with me through streets in Chengdu Until all the lights were turned out, we would still go on // 和我在成都的街頭走一走 直到所有的燈都熄滅了也不停留 Hé wǒ zài chéngdū de jiētóu zǒu yī zǒu Zhídào suǒyǒu de dēng dōu xímièle yě bù tíngliú // Hòa ngã tại Thành Đô đích nhai đầu tẩu nhất … Read more
🌸🌥️🛤️ A species of flower lives in a far, far away place, where many clouds pave the way for whoever comes back. Flowers flutter, just flutter, flowers fall, just fall. Love each other, separate, flowers flutter, bid farewell. // Loài hoa bay sống ở nơi xa thật xa có nhiều mây giăng lối ai về … Read more
After 1,000 days I set foot in Langmusi, it’s still my most favorite place on earth. Langmusi was were I took off all my envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. That day tricked me into thinking that I had a good life. P.s.: Picture taken in Langmusi (Taktsang Lhamo), Sichuan and Gansu, China in 2019.
[1,000 Days Ago In Huanglong] 🌿🌍🍞 Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey // 自然不是奢侈品，而是人类精神的必需品。它对我们的生活至关重要，就好像水和面包一样。 Zìrán bùshì shēchǐ pǐn, ér shì rénlèi jīngshén de bìxūpǐn. Tā duì wǒmen de shēnghuó zhì guān zhòngyào, jiù hǎoxiàng shuǐ … Read more
[1,000 days ago, I was in Mounigou.] 🍷💧🤔 In life, you will meet two kinds of people, some are like wine and some are like water. The difference between them is that wine is unforgettable and water is hard to give up. // 生命中你会遇到两种人，有些像酒，有的似水，他们的区别在于，酒难忘，水难舍。 Shēngmìng zhòng nǐ huì yù dào liǎng zhǒng rén, yǒuxiē xiàng … Read more
[Arbor Day in China – 植树节] 🌳 A special tree I saw in Changpinggou Valley at Mt. Siguniang in Sichuan: Ama Tree (阿妈树). Although the trunk is old, it uses the remaining nutrients to nurture new shoots. The whole tree gave birth to 199 new lives. The withering branches point to Shuangqiao Valley, Changpinggou Valley, … Read more
🐅🎊🙏 སྤྲོ་སེམས་ཁོལ་པོས་བོད་ཆུ་སྟག་ལོའི་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་ཚེས་ལ་བསུ་བ་ཞུ། རེ་འདུན་རྫོགས་མཐའ་མེད་ཅིང་ནད་ཡམས་དང་བར་ཆད་མེད་པར་སྨོན། ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། // Welcome the Year of the Tiger in Tibetan calendar, losar tashi delek; may there be fun and hope, no disaster or difficulty, losar tashi delek! // 喜迎藏历水虎年，罗萨扎西德勒，愿有趣有盼，无灾无难，罗萨扎西德勒！ Xǐ yíng zànglì shuǐ hǔ nián, luō sà zhā xī dé lēi, yuàn yǒuqù yǒu pàn, wú zāi wú nán, luō sà zhā … Read more
🌾❄️🌕 백색의 노래 한 생애는 다른 생애를 꿈꾼다 늦봄 하얀 배꽃들 설레며 달을 기다린다 한 생애는 다른 생애를 닮는다 여름밤 며밀꽃 밭 달을 기다린다 한 생애는 한 생애는 다른 생애를 파묻는다 계울이다 어제 펑펑 내린 눈들 은몸으로 란을 기다린다 돌벵이를 던진다 돌벵이는 눈 속에 파물혀 다른 생애를 시작한다 이윽고 달 떴다 // White Song One … Read more