He stood atop a dais and waved to the crowd against a backdrop of the gold-domed, Wedgwood-blue Monastery of St. Michael and a city square decked with huge Ukrainian and American flags.
Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush (845-733-4959; www.orgecliffmonastery.org).org
Would you want to try a "day of mindfulness" at a place like Blue Cliff Monastery?
If so, were the meals similar to or different from those served and enjoyed at Blue Cliff Monastery?
A good place to try it is the Blue Cliff Monastery, in Pine Bush, N.Y., a Hudson Valley hamlet.
At Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, N.Y., the public can spend a "day of mindfulness" with Buddhist brothers and sisters.
On Oct. 23, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk, led a marriage blessing at the Blue Cliff Monastery in Pine Bush, N.Y.
At Plum Village, in the Dordogne region of France, and at the Blue Cliff Monastery in upstate New York, anyone can sign up to one of his mindful eating courses.
But it is best to move east now toward another magnificent blue cathedral, St Michael's Monastery (leave it for your next trip), down Desyatynna Street, past the imposing Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until you stumble upon the cobble-stoned, winding St Andrew's descent.
Behind the monastery's sky-blue and white baroque walls, topped by domes of gold, dozens of protesters lay resting on rugs, heads or limbs wrapped in white bandages.
God Helps Those... On the wall of the F station at 179th Street in Jamaica, Queens, spelled out in white and blue mosaic tile, is the legend "Monastery and Retreat House," accompanied by an arrow pointing down Hillside Avenue.
