Let's drop into the meditation hall and catch a glimpse of what's going on. Before us is a spacious room filled with comfortable cushions, all in bright colors.
Windows look out onto forest canopy and sky.
Where there are no windows, the walls are hung with tankas, all in rainbow colors, images of buddhas and bodhisattvas, of mandalas, and dakinis. Just as we arrive, the chanting gets softer and softer, until it dissolves into silence. There is one last striking of the bell. The reverberations slowly die away. After a moment, Lama Surya Das, who sits facing us, breaks the silence.