Time For Inner Thai

“The Buddha didn’t praise those who merely believe others, he praised the person who knows within himself.” (Ajahn Chah, Thai Monk)

I enjoy the sensory taste appeal of Pad Thai and Red Curry cuisine. Yet the word Thai in my current life seems to connect so much more to me than food these days. Know that such deeper interest in Thai culture first began when Ruth and I traveled to Bangkok a few years ago. For I noticed then how so many people performed the welcoming ritual of Namaste by folding arms in prayer pose gracefully across their chest.

Since that time, it’s also become a regular habit of mine at the end of my yoga practices and during random greeting occasions to open my heart in gratitude with this humbling gesture to others from my inner soul. A similar form of deep Thai immersion has happened now during my regularly scheduled Thai message, as my masseuse practitioner skillfully applies hand and other bodily part pressure to my areas of body part tightness.

Thus being inspired by my inner Thai spirit, I’ve showcasing below a series of photos of Buddhistic artwork and other beautiful expressions of “Zen” calm that I shot at a Thai lunch stop in Clearwater, Florida this week. For I certainly felt inspired in those moments by this opportunity to experience an authentic Thai dining ambience radiating soulful spiritual bliss with my wife and two family members then.