Slate: Hearing the knock, knock of simple percussion among the sounds of nature, I feel prehistoric. Eugene Douglass: You hear the Buddhist bells. It’s time to meditate. So I was meditating, trying to get into a healthy frame of mind. And I thought about the road here and about the trucks that they used to transform […]

We have arrived at the monastery. Exhausted, we will stay for a few days. Hyung, Tong, and Keith will do some mountain biking. And the rest of us will live like monks: a 5:00 wake up, vegan meals, and meditation.