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Travel Day 1075 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After spending a couple of weeks in a Buddhist monastery and while finishing up the second class, the question arose if it would make sense to take refuge in the three jewels: Buddha, Dharma and Sangha… Officially becoming a Buddhist seemed to be almost the most logical consequence, […]
Travel Day 1066-74 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL Besides our discussions about emptiness, we had also received the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa, this obviously became another main part of our course… This short little pamphlet was about the Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta, Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind, translated […]
Travel Day 1065 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was already time for the second class at Kopan, but this time around it seemed to be a bit more intense since we had twice as much time and only half the amount of people in the class… The topic was basically the same as it had […]
Travel Day 1063, 64 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL Our class about dealing with disturbing emotions passed by rather quickly, but to me it seemed that we had learned quite a lot during this short time… While it seemed somewhat easy to follow the concepts and to understand the ideas about ego and attachment, actually using […]
Travel Day 1058-62 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL We talked yesterday in our discussion group about how to identify attachments in our own life and with that, ego, attachment and liberation became the main focus of all the teachings over the next couple of days… Actually the concept that ego and attachment were the root cause […]
Travel Day 1058-62 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL Since we went to bed early yesterday and I was still used to the trekking schedule, by 6am I was already awake, washed my face and went down for the morning tea… It was funny because everything reminded me of my Discovering Buddhism experience form two years ago […]
Travel Day 1057 – Kathmandu to Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After spending my last day in Kathmandu yesterday, I was off to Kopan Monastery, my final destination in Nepal… About two years ago I had already stayed at this nice Buddhist Monastery and while everything had been a mixed bag of experiences, I still felt that […]
Travel Day 649 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the course participants had left yesterday, I could not believe how nice and quiet Kopan Monastery had become over night… Since there was no class and no schedule at all today, it was really nice to use the time to relax and just simply enjoy myself. […]
Travel Day 648 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was already our last day of the Buddhist introduction course and I joined only the morning meditation… Afterwards a special long life puja happened in the main Gompa, in order to pray for good health and a long life of the slowly recovering Lama Zopa, one of […]
Travel Day 646-47 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After one week of teachings and basic meditation practices, the last two days of the Discovering Buddhism course were set up as a real retreat… A retreat in this case meant that we had no more Buddhist teachings and just focused on different types of meditations. We had […]
Travel Day 640-45 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL After all the excitement of the first day, things started to become a little bit more of a routine after the second one. Also since every single day was planned out with classes from beginning to end, one day after the other just seemed to pass by more […]
Travel Day 639 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL We went to bed in silence yesterday evening, but when the 5.45am morning bell rang, I noticed how difficult the discovering of Buddhism was going to be, when I accidentally said a forbidden “good morning” to my dorm-mates… The morning tea in the cafeteria was then in silence […]
Travel Day 638 – Kopan Monastery, NEPAL It was my first full day at the Buddhist monastery and in the evening my 10 day introductory meditation course would start. When I had signed up for this Discovering Buddhism class, I thought it would be a good idea to arrive a day earlier to settle-in before […]