15 November 2011

What an amazing day it was yesterday! My heart center is open and I feel how the love-feeling flows. Like when I was small, I remember going out of the house in my gramma's place in Southern Russia, it's 7 in the morn, still chilly, but the day is gonna be gorgeous, and I'm sleepy, looking out through the curtain and feeling this ball of sweet love around the chest area.  Happiness, pure and unconditional. That's how I feel now.

Well, what about today? You're still reading me? You're crazy then :)

I'll be brief and just tell you some stories of today.

After the rickshaw trip up the hill to Dharamkot where the Vipassana center is situated one is not afraid of Turkish roads! 20 minutes of bumping and screaming and we we drinking masala tea on the terrace of the tea shop close to the center with... some croissants. Well, food... if you REALLY want you can find some Indian stuff here like thali and dhal and chapati, but you'll need to go around. Otherwise you have the range of cuisines from all over the world, Italian, French, Japanese (so good today!!!), but most of the time Tibetan salads with fresh fruits, nuts, honey and curd, veggies, great soups and momo-dumplings with ketchup haha, mmmm). 

things I liked:

- animals, dogs, everywhere, of all sizes but always the same face, funny puppies following you and sitting at your feet once you stop, cows asking you for food with their kind eyes, monkeys steeling your apples if you're having them in a free access, eagles up in the mountains flying one meter above your head. And they say in Dheli there are tigers in parks :)

-women: Indian ones wearing crazy beautiful sari while doing some construction works in mud and dust, always well brushed and with make-up and bindis. Carrying crazy amount of stuff on their heads. Tibetan ones looking totally different, making scarfs and gloves in front of their small hand-made stuff shops, taking care of children and cleening the streets

- tibetan monks and nuns everywhere in their red-yellow shawls and Dalai-lama was here yesterday, I missed him... 

- yoga, massage and spiritual practices classes are everywhere, in every single house, it's like finding a bakery in France

-we played cricket, yohooooo, it's a superactive game, but those Indians play like gods, i was afraid to try to catch the ball, it would make a hole in my hand :)

- I was cheated for the first time :), bought a bag of dried cranberries in chocolate and found dried figues inside (no trace of chocolate:), actually that's  what they often do - empty the bags and fill them with smth cheaper, like flour instead of washing powder etc. No reason to be unhappy, it was actually so fun!

Ok, now after the morning meditation sitting in the sun in front of the Himalaya picks, drinking ginger-lemon-honey and trying to post some pictures. It's gonna be a greeeaaaaat day!

Be happy