Phew, I'm back in Bangkok from Burma. I think that's the longest I've been *offline* since I first went *online* about 9 years ago... But what a place, Burma! The pilgrimage was incredible- 500 meditators from all over the world attended, and we cruised around the country in a huge entourage of about 12 buses. There's way too much to say about it now, I'll post more (including pictures) once I get home. Goenkaji and Mataji were present for all of it, though they traveled separately (they're around 80 years old, understandably...). One of the highlights was visiting Mogok, a large city in Upper Burma that's currently closed to foreigners due to all the ruby mining happening there.
I'm 2 days late returning to Bangkok because I sat a 10-day Vipassana course in Yangon for, well, the past 10 days. ;)
More coming soon...