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Travel Day 1098 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND While the Vegetarian Food at Kopan Monastery had been amazing already, the food at Wat Suan Mokkh was pretty amazing as well… Well, actually the vegetarian rice soup for breakfast was everything but amazing and only barely scratched the label of plain disgusting. The worst […]
Travel Day 1097 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND As the weather was constantly changing from sunny to heavy rain, so was our program changing as well after four days of Vipassana routine… It was funny because all I had ever heard about Vipassana was that it went along with a really strict schedule […]
Travel Day 1096 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND In comparison to Life and Conduct at Kopan Monastery in Nepal, everything at Wat Suan Mokkh was a bit more strict and regulated… First of all the five usual Buddhist precepts were extended to eight and the definitions were a bit more specific: 1. No […]
Travel Day 1095 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND As it turned out, most of the teachings we had at Wat Suan Mokkh were about Anapanasiti or rather Mindfulness with Breathing… Actually I was about to say that all the teachings were about Anapanasiti, the subject mainly studied and taught by Buddhadasa, but there […]
Travel Day 1094 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND Today was our first full day of the Vipassana retreat at Suan Mokkh and the day started with the wake up bell at 4am… Well, actually we were supposed to be woken up at 4am, but as the bell was really far away from my […]
Travel Day 1093 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND It was actually very simple what was going to happen, today was the registration day for the Vipassana retreat at Suan Mokkh… These Vipassana meditation retreats were always held at the first 10 days of every month and the day before, the last day of […]
Travel Day 1092 – Hua Hin to Suan Mokkh by Chaiya, THAILAND After visiting the many temples in Phetchaburi yesterday, I jumped on a local bus down to the beach town Hua Hin by the later afternoon… Initially my idea had been to spend some time on the beach before I would carry on towards […]
Travel Day 1091 – Bangkok to Phetchaburi to Hua Hin, THAILAND It was about time to finally leave Bangkok and since I was heading towards Surat Thani, I intended to make at least a few stops along the way… Initially I meant to leave Bangkok already a couple of days ago in order to have […]
Travel Day 1090 – Bangkok, THAILAND Over the past couple of days I had seen so many sights during the day that I actually started seeing them at night as well… It was funny because Bangkok was so famous for its night-life and usually visitors seemed to spend a lot of their time in bars, […]
Travel Day 1089 – Bangkok, THAILAND Today I visited another place that I had been passing by every single day since I had arrived in Bangkok, Wat Suthat… Generally quite unspectacular from the outside, Wat Suthat stayed rather in my focus because of two distinct circumstances. For once it was located facing the biggest open […]
Travel Day 1088 – Bangkok, THAILAND After seeing the un-touristic sight of Mahakan Fort yesterday, today I decided to join the masses of fellow foreigners and visit Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn… Wat Arun happened to be another sight that I always wanted to visit when in Bangkok, but since it was situated across […]
Travel Day 1087 – Bangkok, THAILAND One place I constantly seemed to pass by over the last couple of days was Mahakan Fort and today was actually the first time that I decided to stop and have a closer look… During previous visits of Bangkok I had already passed many times a white wall adjacent […]
Travel Day 1086 – Bangkok, THAILAND When I was taking the skytrain yesterday from the embassy to Siam Square, I noticed something again that struck me already a few days ago: Bangkok was the future… Bangkok did obviously feel like the future already when I arrived from Nepal, but even after living in New York […]