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Faces, lives...: December 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Monday, December 8, 2008. In the next, bit more than one month I will travel to a Buddhist monastery for an intensive meditation retreat in Burma. I will not be able to inform you during the retreat - since it is a retreat :D. Therefore right now I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. And a Happy, Peaceful New Year. SEE YOU ALL BACK IN LATE JANUARY! Links to this post.
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Faces, lives...: November 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Sunday, November 30, 2008. Watching into the eyes of that young murderer, I think I realised something that might sounds provoking. Please do not take me wrong, that is not my intention! The greatest among us, like Krishna, Zarathustra, Lao Ce, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, did not (want to? Universe, we ought to kill, we ought to suppress other forces to give way to those we label as ours.
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Faces, lives...: March 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Sunday, March 23, 2008. We were told not to react to any sensation, just observe it with as much clarity as possible; not to wish to have the sensation of dissolution/vibration, not to feel aversion if only gross sensation what we observe, because otherwise we just repeat our old patterns, instead of eradicating them. Links to this post. Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Eyes that tell a story.
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Faces, lives...: February 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Monday, February 11, 2008. Slums, slums, slums. Wherever I go there are slums everywhere. Shocking? I was wondering around this camp for quite a while in the past weeks, but somehow I never had the a courage to enter. How would they greet me? Like a stupid foreigner who comes here to enjoy their poverty? A younger guy speaks some English. Should I say yes? They start to talk in Marat...
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Faces, lives...: Farewell
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Monday, December 8, 2008. In the next, bit more than one month I will travel to a Buddhist monastery for an intensive meditation retreat in Burma. I will not be able to inform you during the retreat - since it is a retreat :D. Therefore right now I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. And a Happy, Peaceful New Year. SEE YOU ALL BACK IN LATE JANUARY! Neked is boldog karácsonyt!
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Faces, lives...: January 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Tuesday, January 8, 2008. A Whole New World. Simply shocking. I will work for the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism in the following few years. They sent a fancy jeep for me to the airport. Now we are on way back to the Institute, through the city. City. For a long time I was keep thinking that we are passing through some kind of ghetto or slum - but now, this is. Links to this post.
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Faces, lives...: August 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Saturday, August 16, 2008. These thoughts are inspired by discussions in this blog. I suggest you to go there and read those chilling thoughts by yourself, but, in brief the main conclusion is that it is the journey what counts, not the final destination. Is it really so? But how many of us was really born to meditate still on the top of a mountain peak for the entirety of his life?
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Faces, lives...: Stolen Umbrella
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Sunday, January 18, 2009. It's been three days I am here. The nights are cool, but the days are hot. The sun is even . So, after lunch I arrive back to the afternoon session almost refreshed. I'm just continuing my walking meditation, when one of the y. Now I get it! He understands me and smiles. Then I feel a gentle, shy touch on my arm, and he says: - Did you visit Sayagyi. No, bec...
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Faces, lives...: The Golden Land - on my 1st and last days in Yangon
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Saturday, January 17, 2009. The Golden Land - on my 1st and last days in Yangon. The plane has been approaching the flat plain of Burma (Myanmar) for some minutes, now. The air is hazy, and the branches of river Ayeyarwady's. In Burma, so, I ought to carry all my cash), that if anything turns bad I can pay for an outbound flight to Kolkata. To local currency, kyat. To feed the govern...
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Faces, lives...: April 2008
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These are my notes and impressions about people, lives, traditions, moods, situations, me - biased by strong subjectivity. Friday, April 11, 2008. I thank him and give some bakshish. A holy person since his age of 8yrs. Now he is just as old as myself. He studied English when he was a young child. He says that he will go to visit some Temple and he invites me. I ask him:. Do you often go to distant temples? He is silent for a while. He looks around pointing the Temple, the tree, and his own body and says:.