The Importance of Being Present

In December, 1993, I was having a very, very love affair with a flute player. And on my way to New Hampshire, I passed through Boston and some people on the Buddhist center,. given me some books and posters for Mount Petra who was living in Boston. They had gone to Boston and set up one of these centers. So I was kind of acting as Korea for these books and posters... Manjavadua was waiting for me as I got off the train from New York. We went up and we had coffee and he saw me off on the bus. He certainly said, why don't you come back to Boston? A few months later I didn't come back