Can you arrange that we have some like (vegan) cough drops or something in the doorway. Put a bowl of cough drops. But take one or two only, in case you need it. You can shove it in right away, so you don’t cough too hard while meditating. It’s not that we mind. It’s just that it disturbs the neighbors, number one. Number two, it wastes your time to sit there coughing. Instead, if you’ll be more calm, you can enter samadhi better and enjoy. […]
I’m thinking, I went all over the world to look for places. I told you already; I really did. Some places are cheap, good beach, big land, everything. You couldn’t even buy (vegan) soy sauce or apples. I don’t mention where. Really, some places are so beautiful. But knowing that I have thousands of mouths to feed, I have to be practical also. We can’t just live on sea water and air. Maybe we could. Miracles do happen. For some people it’s possible. But when we have a collective group of karma like this, it works differently. […]