This week marks fifty years since my first visit to South Asia and the beginning of my lifelong learning from Hindu traditions. On July 4, 1973, I flew from Kennedy Airport, New York, to Nepal. The flight was terribly delayed leaving New York, but my ever-patient parents and sisters waited with me all those extra hours until finally my plane took off. It was Pan Am 1, a West-East flight around the world, lengthened and blessed by a series of refueling stops: New York – London – Paris – Rome –...
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