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Travel Day 1107 – Koh Tao, THAILAND Wow, today was a very different day and today I actually had to admit that I really liked Koh Tao which all of a sudden appeared as the perfect place for a little beach Daycation… My change of mind had probably a lot to do with the weather, […]
Travel Day 1106 – Koh Phangan to Koh Tao, THAILAND After settling-in so nicely on Koh Phangan, I really wasn’t sure any more if wanted to move on, but since Koh Tao had been my original destination, I felt obliged to at least have a look and see how different the other island… Since I […]
Travel Day 1105 – Koh Phangan, THAILAND Even if I went to bed quite late yesterday, today I couldn’t help but wake up early, and even if it wasn’t 4am, but by 6.30am I was already running around… The evening rain shower yesterday had probably been rather a storm than anything else, because in the […]
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 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 […]