{"id":599,"date":"2008-08-30T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T02:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-08-31T08:55:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T15:55:49","slug":"the-lake-shrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/08\/30\/the-lake-shrine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lake Shrine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to check out the Lake Shrine<\/a>, which is run by the Self-Realization Fellowship and is located in Pacific Palisades on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean; the original shrine was dedicated by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1950.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a place for reflection and meditation.<\/p>\n

The grounds are beautiful, with several small statues mounted part way up the hills surrounding the small lake in the center.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a memorial to peace that contains a small amount of the ashes of Gandhi, which is across from the Golden Lotus Archway.<\/p>\n

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Both of us in front of the Gandhi Peace Memorial<\/p>\n

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Me in front of the memorial (Aviva takes good pictures – the subject helps of course)<\/p>\n

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The Golden Lotus Archway from across the lake<\/p>\n

As we walked along the lake, we came upon some ducks sleeping and two swans preening.<\/p>\n

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Ducks sleeping at lake side<\/p>\n

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Two swans preening<\/p>\n

On the other side, there’s an old windmill which was converted to the first temple and is today a meditation place.<\/p>\n

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The windmill which was the first temple here<\/p>\n

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Aviva with the windmill across the lake<\/p>\n

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A wierd bush we found – we’d like to know what it is<\/p>\n

Of course we stopped at the gift shop – I bought a pair of Ohm earrings.\u00c2\u00a0 We didn’t feel like climbing the long stairway to the new temple, but it looks from down below to be very neat.<\/p>\n

From the shrine we went into Santa Monica and shopped at our favorite bookstore there, Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought a book of 1000 decorated initials; I want to consider re-working the main page to our web site.\u00c2\u00a0 I also go the Giraffe from the d-torso line.<\/p>\n

We had dinner at Gate of India<\/a> at 117 Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica.\u00c2\u00a0 The food was good, the restaurant small, and the service friendly.<\/p>\n

We picked up the dog, who spent the day playing with a 5 month old German Sheppard puppy at Uncle Jeff’s.<\/p>\n

And I then spent the rest of the night failing to get my Toshiba TiVO and DVD player to work right; it won’t show me the option to use the RF input as an input (yea, we still have a very old TV in the main room).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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