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Travel Day 1104 – Wat Suan Mokkh to Koh Phangan, THAILAND It was already the final morning session of our Vipassana meditation retreat and instead of following the regular schedule, we had a lot of things to get done and organize… Of course we still had our last 4am rise with the usual morning reading […]
Travel Day 1102 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND It was already the last day of our Vipassana retreat at Wat Suan Mokkh and for some strange reason our entire schedule was changed again… After finally having such a great and intense day yesterday, which had actually felt like what I had expected from […]
Travel Day 1102 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND After four more days of Vipassana routine and to everyone’s big surprise, our schedule was changed again… Without any prior warning, we happened to see yesterday evening that there was once again a new schedule posted, starting at day 9. Actually the changes were not […]
Travel Day 1099-01 – Dhamma Hermitage, Wat Suan Mokkh, THAILAND While all my Buddhist studies at Kopan Monastery in Nepal had been in the Mahayana tradition, now in Thailand it was great to finally learn a little bit more about the Theravada Buddhism… Obviously the fundamental teachings of the Buddha like the “Four Noble Truths” […]
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 1079 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL One thing I was really looking forward to while coming to Kopan Monastery was the great vegetarian food… This was almost a bit surprising, because when I was looking at my diary from two years ago, I was finding that the biggest complaint I had about Nepal was […]
Travel Day 1078 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL While a lot of things at Kopan Monastery were exactly the same as they used to be, one thing was different: There was some construction going on… The first time I noticed the construction site was when I walked over to the teaching Gompa and I found that […]
Travel Day 1077 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL Besides the general conduct at a Buddhist monastery, there was also a certain dharma etiquette that wanted to be observed… In general, the dharma etiquette was mainly concerned about some basic rules of respect for the teachings of the Buddha. While some rules were focused directly on the […]
Travel Day 1076 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL Besides the big debate if one should really take refuge or not, the last days of the second course were mainly focused on Emptiness. But the real meaning of emptiness I only came to experience after the class had finished… Well, actually what I came to experience was […]