Hanging out in 215 degree tent with 30 navy guys in their undees.

Well, i am into growing.

And i suppose fundamentally religions are about morlality, or growing emotionally, or at least they should be.

So i study their technology and use it, for my own growth.

I mine a lot out of the buddhist tradition. Just sitting and feeling. i hae come to realize that there is deeper and deeper worlds of feeling which are interesting.

But sometimes its interesting to combine this with 215 degree heat, which is what the native americans did.

Thats what this one guy does, and he is ex military, went to nam. He says sweating, and finding comfort in the pain, helps him find himself. And everyear he gets 20 or so graduating marines to come join him in this hot tent, to go inward and share.

So somehow i chamed my way into the tent, i guess as sort of a general poet softy it was thought that i might inspire them to let themselves get a little gay.

who knows....

but it was a hell of a time training with the navy seals. admitedly some of the inner work crowd can be a bunch of soft "pussies" so it was a refreshing change.

I was really moved by how some of them really went into and let themselves speak from a place of genuine softness, and vulnerabilty. I am glad that they are soldiers.