It's been a long long time since my last post. It's hard to believe that more than three weeks has gone by, where has all the time gone. Soo much has happened, that I havn't had any time to sit in front of the computer for a strech of time to update it. For now, I will be posting some short summaries of some of my experiences and will be updating it when I have the proper time to write in detail.
The name of the meditation is called Dhamma Vipassana. It's a ten day course streched into 12 days, the first and last days don't count for meditation. The schedual was very tough, morning call is at 0400, but the wake up call which is a bell being rung by a helper is rung at 0350 (hey, those ten minutes make a difference...or so I thought...) You're supposed to be ready and gathered at your personal seat at the meditation hall at 0430, and meditation commences until 0630. You can then enjoy your well deserved breakfast of what I call Indian porridge. A very sweet dish with some salty thin crackers. I found it amazingly delicious, and very filling. Excellent for a cold fall/early winter morning. And yes, it was very cold. Meditation then starts again at 0800, and would break for lunch at 1100, where you can enjoy a great thali, different indian curries with rice and indian bread. To be honest, it's was the best thali I have tasted since I arrived in India, and very filling (you could go back for seconds hehe). Meditation would then start again at 1300 (so you have time after lunch to shower), and chai would be served at 1700, where once again, meditation would commence at 1800-2100 where you would have a video discourse of the new techniques thought for about 1.5 hrs. So, a total of 12hrs or so of meditation sounds pretty intense. I thought getting up in the morning and the no dinner part would be hard, but boy oh boy, it was the constant sitting with aches and pains that proved to be the toughest.
to be continued...
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... seems like commenting from iPhone times out on Blogger, let's see if I can recap what I wrote.
Sure seems like a tough crash course in meditation. A tight schedule to break you in and trying to stay "alert" mentally even though it might not be as physical as running an obstacle course.
Thali diet makes you turn into a stick after a while, your "sticky" enough so don't forget to chum on some "fat and meaty and juicy" food as well. Exploring food culture is an important key to learning about people and places.
My cultural exploration has so far been limited to popping a few Cobra brewskies during your first week in India. Yesterday I made some kimchi burgers (sounds nasty, tastes better but there's plenty of tastier foodstuff out there). Wen't to Copenhagen last Saturday to work on the regular personal photostories/projects. Ended up in freetown Christiania... on "Pusher street" where they DON'T like cameras. No mishaps though but a few not so happy stares went my way. Found out that they have a small buddhist place there, with prayer scrolls/rolls and all. We should go there. It's right next to the church with the outside-stairs-clocktower.
Found my way to the asian grocery store as well, but guess what! The place had cleaned out most of the korean stuff, just to replace it with JAPANESE stuff!!! WTF!!! ... so I had to walk out of there with no soju in my bag. I was so depressed that I even forgot to buy a couple of one-cup umeshu's, which I regret now. Guess I have to go there later on again but that probably won't be until January or something like that.
Oh hehe... one of my work collegues son is in India as well... they go in a pack... and they "accidently" crashed their rental car into a cow! LOL! Shit happens huh! You don't wanna do that in India of all places... and yeah... it was in one of the areas (hindu area) where they like them cows as they are, preferrably alive with no scratches or bumps.
Ok... gotta go for now... checking in with you later.
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