Visitors from Maui

A few days back we had 11 visitors arrive at the monastery gate, the friends and family of Woody Harrelson. Woody is an enormously talented actor, first on the last-millennium sitcom "Cheers" and more recently in the Hunger Games series (and lots more). He and his family live on Maui and this was their first visit to the monastery. Amazingly, Woody is deeply immersed in spiritual work and nearly every word he said was of the inner kind. Example question: "Swami, what difference is there, if any, in your tradition, between enlightenment and samadhi?"

Paramacharya takes them to Shanmugam under the million-year-old banyan

Then to the Media Studio where they discover The View

Then off to Iraivan.

Daughter Mahaka has many questions and an equal number of answers

Senthilnathaswami gives them the history of this unique temple

Everyone chips a little

Paramacharya sent them home with some of the garden\

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