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Meili Snow Mountain: You always have to chase the sunrise on the golden mountain once

Travel feelings: I took a bus from Shangri-La to Meili Snow Mountain. The journey took more than four hours. It was tiring, but the mountains and rivers along the way were vast, and the snow was flying. I suddenly felt that of course the mountains should be high and the roads should be long, and of course you should be exhausted. When the beautiful scenery of the destination comes to your face, you will know how precious all this is, you will understand gratitude, you will be devout, just like climbing the Songzanlin Temple, the stairs are extremely steep, step by step upwards, you can lower your head, you can worship like crawling under the gods, sincerely and purely, with kindness in your heart, raise your life and gods above your head, forget yourself in the place closest to heaven, and blend into this mundane world. The bus drivers drive for several hours at a time. When they meet oncoming buses, they greet each other with a horn. This is their language, a comfort on the long road. This job is very hard, but they are still gentle, tolerant, kind, and friendly. This is the power of faith and the warmth of human nature. After eating near Feilai Temple, the two of us had a snowball fight along the way. There wasn't much snow, so we went to hold the snow on the car. She was super happy. Today is her first time seeing snow and her first snowball fight. When we were close to the hotel, we saw someone selling fruit at a stall. She was gesturing, she was a mute, babbling, it was very heartbreaking. We bought the most expensive box and wished her days to be happy, simple, safe, and smooth. The next morning we went to see the sunrise on the golden mountain. Due to the snow, we didn't see it. I read a sentence before that said 'Seeing the sunrise on the golden mountain requires good luck, not seeing the sunrise on the golden mountain can bring you good luck.' We have tried, maybe we are just not lucky enough, but it doesn't affect us at all, we are still happy, we still love that mountain, we learn to participate in the incense ceremony like the Tibetans, pray devoutly, we learn to respect the sacred mountain like the Tibetan people, we don't ask it to bring us anything, as long as the sacred mountain is there, we feel at peace, whether it is there or not, we will act according to the most good thoughts in our hearts, this is the power that rises from the heart, it has nothing to do with the outside world, it only comes from the unchanging faith.
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Posted: Feb 20, 2024
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