Question Series for my FB Friends: Tsongkapa holds stems to two lotuses. What are on the lotuses? What do the items represents? What are the items telling us we can achieve specifically through Tsongkapa’s Guru Yoga practice? Tsem Rinpoche (I thought I will post questions perhaps daily to help ppl think, learn and research. Let’s use FB for learning.)   Share and Enjoy:

(click on photo to view bigger if you like) I was around 18 years old when this picture was taken..in courtyard of Fenmore Apts on Sunset Blvd in 1983 where I lived in a studio apt. I had left New Jersey, hitchiked across to California. Living in a small studio Apt on the famous Sunset Strip or Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood. I could walk to Hollywoold Blvd where the Walk of the Stars was in 25mins flat from my apt. I was in the heart of ‘it’ all. I was on my own, working at Fotomat in a kiosk (photo below). Those little one-man photo kiosks on Sunset Blvd making barely enough money to survive. Making friends with rock band lead singers wannabes, porno stars, prostitutes, agents, small time actors, and models who walked the sunset strip to come to Fotomat to develop their film. There was the guy in a rock band, with long curly hair, hanged over, smoking a cigarette and wearing neat red boots staggering down to my little shop to develop film. He talked about rock and roll gigs on the strip he was singing at nites to earn a living, booze, drugs parties, the women and hangovers and hung [...]