Dealing with what is actually possible in life is beyond the capacity of most people I find. So, when I saw "When Logic Bends" I immediately thought of my trip to India and Nepal where this was true every single day. It taught me about what is actually possible which is not at all like we tend to experience here in the U.S. at all.
We are very mechanistic compared to my experiences in India especially. Here's one example, I thought I was doing a really great thing buying tickets for the 5 of us on a train to Gaya I think it was in Bihar province in India (my then wife and 3 children 10 to 14 at the time) in 1985 December.
However, when the train arrived I was befuddled to see that the tickets I bought were to hang onto the outiside of the train anyway that we could which was impossible with all our luggage I realized as the train pulled up with hundreds of people (mostly younger people) holding on to the outside of the train. I think we finally bought bus tickets because I found you couldn't book a compartment (for the whole family) yet because Scalpers had already bought them all. I didn't learn this until After the Kalachakra Tantric initiation with 500,000 people and the Dalai Lama when Geshela and his Nephew started traveling with us. He nephew knew where to find the scalpers so we could have our own compartment for safety while traveling with so many people which then was a large room like thing with benches that would seat up to 10 people inside a compartment then for safety.
So, when Logic bends (you might find yourself traveling around some place like India where you actually know absolutely nothing about how things are done there. At least this was my experience in 1985 and 1986 there and Nepal.
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