"that picture above me"- this sentence (for now {unrevised})

The largest temple in the world is called Angkor Wat and it is located just a nice bicycle ride outside of Siem Reap Cambodia. Siem Reap (means "Siam reap", "death of Siam" or "Thailand" if you will) is a pretty cool little town. I'd say it's like the Green Bay Wisconsin of Cambodia. It is just a little town, but it holds the location of the Green Bay Packer-worship of Cambodia, the treasure of the land, the fortress that has withheld and defeated several enemies. The bicycles in Siem Reap rent for 1 dollar a day and are very nice, they come with a lock, they are all "girls" bikes but...if there are no "boys" bikes then who gives a shit, right? You can ride your bike as far as you want and the time I rented one was the BEST bike ride I have ever been on in my life, ever.
The Elephant Walk has a song called "Siem Reap Blues" and it's pretty cool little jingle, I think especially because the Elephant Walk came about to be a band that was to tour Cambodia and that's the story of the Elephant Walk really.
So anyway, the title was saying, that picture in the top of the blog is pretty important. It's called "Churning the Eternal Sea of Milk" and it's a Hindu thing. It's a pretty cool story really, I'll tell ya about it briefly.
So the world is this milk, right and then there is ths mountain that comes out of it and in Greek it's MT Olympus, but Hindu was first so it's called Mount Mandarachal and there is a war going on there. It's an island in the middle of the ocean, Like ABS'c TV hit LOST. There are a group of demons and a groups of good guy angels or something and they are playing tug of war for the affection of the human souls. This goes on for a thousand years and then the mountain begins to sink so guess what. Vishnu, freaking Vishnu makes one of Vishnu's first appearances on earth in the incarnation of a tortoise to support the game of tug and war. (do I hear lightbulbs flashing in your Lost Tuesday heads filimenting about the history of the King Wen I Ching symbol, the symbol of Taoism and later the Dharma initiative bringing he Sanskrit back to a full circle in which the Zen Masters failed with the Enso, hahaha?)(or surpassed double haha)
Vishnu says, "wait, have the tug of war game on my shell, Brahma,"
"Yeah"
"Brahma, you are the creator god, you are in charge, you stand on my back and regulate."
The ocean turns from all the craziness and the animals who get too close get sucked up in the whirlpool. Even Alligators. That's it.
It makes a nice engraving on the walls of the world's largest temple, a place where literally every single inch of the world's largest temple walls are engraved.
It makes a nice "Temple Rubbing" as they call it and it makes a nice framed temple rubbing that hangs right above my computer. Every single little time I sit back in my chair and think for a second, I look at the "Churning of the Eternal Sea of Milk," the beginning of creation as depicted by the greatest artist to ever engrave the halls of the largest temple in the world. You can bring your own paper and chalk and get a really shitty engraving by yourself, (what I did for a second) or you can pay a homeless guy 50 cents and he will give you a masterpiece rubbing of a masterpiece engraving in CHARCOAL on pressed rice paper that is like 75lb stock. I have a bunch more that I'd like to give away, anyone needs one. A true innovation of creativity. Thanks "Sea of Milk" to continue to inspire me every time I slightly look up. Keep it up "good guys." There is this cool bridge where you cross to get to some other cool temples and to cross it, on the western side is these bid demon statues playing tug of war, on the east, the good guys, mainly decapitated by museum hunters, but you get the idea by half of them that exist that it is a struggle to live in this world and creation is quite the process and so on...

usually these pictures aren't mine, but this time they are.



"you reap what you sew"

by the way, climbing around in the temple might be the best thing in the whole entire world. Totally worth it. Climbing the spires is very dangerous but makes a cool photo.