09/08/2025
There are no words to express the beauty of this temple and what transpired here for me today. Pictures do no justice.
Sacred is sacred. No matter if you practice religion or not.
Intention is everything. Tradition and ritual hold intention.
If we drop down into the teachings, into the energy, then what matters is how you feel, what you hear, how you transform.
It has nothing to do with worship, in my opinion. It is reverence and willingness to be with the self, with tradition, and allow yourself to open to other ways of doing things, of other words and ways of hearing things.
Interestingly, my guide today didn’t tell me much about the temple or what usually happened there, until after we left He said he was guided to let me feel it.
We did the ritual of incense, flowers, asking what my purpose was there today. There were offerings and a specific way of doing things. I don’t usually do religious rituals like this, but it was profound.
What I felt, what I experienced. It made me lighter. It made me feel more free, and it helped to tap me back into me after the MOST intense two months.
In short, I feel more myself. I feel better. I am so grateful!
And for my dragon lovers, there were so many dragons there! Along the walkways, dragon tails lined the path. They were at the entrance of almost everything.
But it was called bat cave temple. Because a portion of the temple sits back in a bat cave and it was SO WONDERFUL to be there.
Then I went to another temple to purify. There are no photos of that because it was pouring rain and nobody needed to see me in that sarong putting my face and head under spouts of water that were able to make me feel so purified I could actually see better as well as feel lighter even more.
