Christmas 2008 in Upper Hamlet
Schedule for December 31, 2008
New years day celebration in Lower Hamlet
Chanting
Strange foam-like mushroom with gelly stuff dripping at its bottom.
Two weeks after this picture was taken it was turned black and dry.
My room, named 'Blue Sky'.
One of my roommates, Utsevo
Thich Nhat Hanh giving a dharma talk in New Hamlet about global ethics on January 4, 2009
Walking meditation trough the beautiful hills of France after the dharma talk.
Formal lunch
Schedule for January 6, 2009
Snow makes everything beautiful!
The stairs to my room.
When I got out of the door, this was the first view.
The view from the window in our room, Blue Sky.
The view from a window in the Transformation Hall
Making a snowman.
One of my roommates, Anand from India. He had never seen snow before.
Later we decorated the snowman even more.
Schedule for January 7, 2009
A lot of people where sick.
January 10, 2009
The opening ceremony in Upper Hamlet for the ordination of the new monastics and transmission of the lamp of wisdom.
The ceremonys took two weeks.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sister Chan Kong and Sister Gina
Phap Y
The sangha walking to the big meditation hall.
Photoshop does miracles with pictures taken with my iPhone.
Janary 13, 2009
A beautiful sunrise as seen from my room.
Utsevo was taking the pictures so I could stay in bed. So nice!
Gary from Canada.
January 15, 2009
Trasmission of the lamp in Lower Hamlet for a Dutch woman, Françoise.
A lamp of wisdom.
You can buy it too from: marineshop.biz
or from chasse-maree.com
or from 1000nautique.com
But it's given to you when you become a Buddhist teacher in the tradition of the Order of Interbeing.
~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ later that day ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
Then I met this lovely girl, Arianne from Italy. Specialist in Philipsophy. Not much more happend after this picture was taken.
The hills next to the meditation Hall in Lower Hamlet
January 16, 2009
The Dharma Nectar Meditation Hall
The sunset at 17:50
January 18, 2009
Visiting Thenac with Anand, the village next to Upper Hamlet.
As we visit the church, we also visit the sematary because in India this looks way diffrent.
January 19, 2009
Visiting Bergerac with Jean-Claude and Anand
This guy wrote the French national anthem. Next to him is the court of justice.
Bergerac is a very old good preserved city.
The legend is that this man has all his wisdom in his nose.
A church.
A protestant monastry that is now used for wine promotion.
A concert we thought about going to. It never happend.
January 19, 2009
Happiness meeting with the lay sangha in Upper Hamlet.
January 20, 2009
Utsavo, one of my roommates
And then the big machine came to make a hole in the road for the waterpipe. Very impressive and a lot of noise.
Again Utsavo.
All the roommates together, except Hoang, he is taking the picture.
from left to right:
Alan, Anand, Utsavo, Gil-Ad, Gunter and me.
January 22, 2009
January 25, 2009
The celebration of TED.
January 27, 2009
TED celebration in Upper Hamlet. The asian (Chinese / Vietnamese new year). The tradition is to welcome everybody in your room. Even your enemy. This brings good luck.
After the party you can not clean the room for one day because it will take out the good luck.
The first person that enters after you clean the room, will bring you good luck for the rest of the year.
A lot of visitors in our room too.
Anand made Indian chai.
January 28, 2009
TED celebration in New Hamlet
January 29, 2009
TED celebration in West-Lake, close to Son Ha temple
January 30, 2009
On this lazy day I went biking together with Rodger. We went to Monestier and Saussignac.
The church in Saussignac.
January 31, 2009
Sunrise from our room, Blue Sky
Cutting a big and dangerous tree.
February 2, 2009
Houses are cheap in Sigoulès
January 5, 2009
Singing and walking meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh
February 8, 2009
The five contemplations at formal lunch.
Chanting after formal lunch.
The invocation of the bodisatva names.
February 9, 2009
My 26th birthday.
Together with Adam and Anand we made 14 chocolate cakes.
February 10, 2009
A mindful song in French on the melody of 'The Sound of Silence'.
February 12, 2009
During the past two weeks I tried to grow a mustash and a beard. This started to get itchy so I took it of after this picture was taken.
Anand and Badra are cooking
My friend Rodger.
February 14, 2009
Unforunately this is also a reality in Plum Village.
Gabage, paint and car tires dumped in nature.
I hope this will transform as I feel it is not so mindful.
One of the sweetest cats I've met in my life.
Valentine sunset.
In real time this took 3 minutes.
Some company is using my name...
February 15, 2009
Sunset, too beautiful not to make a lot of pictures.
February 17, 2009
Anand showing off with one of his girls...
February 18, 2009
The last day of the retreat.
Saying good bye to Mari from Norway (with the red hair)
Some nice calligraphy.
February 19, 2009
Some vague pictures of the good bye party.
Philip, the 'other' multimedia guy.
