"This salad is like eating rainbows..."

Found by Joseph browsing the bookshelf at the Lama Foundation kitchen.
p30, Kofalk, Harriet. The Peaceful Cook. Tennessee: The Book Publishing Comany, 1991.

A NOTE ON THE LAMA FOUNDATION (http://www.lamafoundation.org/)

Founded by Sufi Sam, the Lama Foundation sits at an altitude of 9000 feet in northern New Mexico. The cold winds and open skies overlook hundreds of miles of terrain, refreshing the spirit and inspiring union with the divine. I found myself awake mornings at 3am, staring at the full moon and the cast of my shadow on the night forest floor below. Hiking barefoot up to the ridgeline, I encountered a bear. Although I was frightened and cut my feet on rose bushes, the bear calmly turned towards the hill and left a deep, warming impression that still sedates me.

The Lama Foundation is paired in my mind with the more earth and civilization based Hanuman Ashram located in the valley of Taos, NM below. This ashram is dedicated to Ram Dass' guru Neem Karoli Baba. This ashram is colorful, filled with perfumed Ayurvedic scents that encourage meditation. Its light is filled with a golden and pink hue. Scattered around the temple are musical instruments for worship and prasad, or offerings of food to the guru and deity.

If Lama is the Purusha, or male witness to creation, the Neem Karoli Baba ashram is the Prakruti or female energy of creation.