SOME SMALL THING (remember, one day the will be the big ones)

So, I left McLeod Ganj... this place is magic, I spent here more than one month and would stay for years! It's not for nothing that Dalai-Lama chose  Dharamsala as his residence, the energy is fantastic here. I always felt as if I had been born here in one of my past lives - deja vus once in two-three days. I felt like home. With people (Tibetans are kind and loving and naive and simple and caring), places (just stand in the middle of the Temple and listen to LIFE around you or go up the mountain and feel the wind from Himalayan tops on your cheeks), food (momos... well, may be I was a momo in one of my lives as well), freedom and inner peace... Lots of things happened to me on the spiritual level as well! One of them is life-changing, but I'll tell you later...

 I feel very happy, very very happy, every single minute. And I am grateful to life and Universe for bringing me here (somehow I was bound to go to McLeod and I am happy I listened to my inner voice! Do the same, and lots of things will be aligned with your PURPOSE)

And here are some pics from the city - just "typical" stuff and small details

SIGNS AND LETTERS

HOUSES, PEOPLE, CARS

This is an Israeli car belonging to a rabbi who tries to bring young Israelis coming to Dharamsala back to the religion, rather colorful - both him and his car!

Bus station in Bhagsu and auto-rikshaws

Tibetan lady knitting (the whole daily actually)

Her grand-child

A wedding 

Indian children at school - they'd sing songs and play drums every morning, marching to their classroom afterwards

At Baba-ji's place

HAND MADE PAPER BY TIBETAN REFUGEES

CITY AND SHOPPING

That's how the water is supplied to the houses: EVERY house has its own pipes, so sometimes they are more than 50 in one place. And something is always leaking...

Buddhist prayer drums in the Temple in the middle of the city

Just a typical street

A sikh guy selling knives

Shiva Temple 2

Just before Takashi's and my leaving McLeod Ganj we decided to go back to the Shiva temple, the magic and mysterious place, full of energy and vibes. Crazy to see that it's just 100 meters from a Buddhist temple, so Tibetan monks are going up the same road as Hindus. Tolerance and respect... 

It was a beautiful day, we were superlazy and had some lay_down_in_the_sun_meditations :) 

Thank you Lord Shiva!

Home sweetest home

Here just wanted to show you some pics from the place were we stayed. It's an old Indian row-house with some kind of terrase along the house, a small room with a chimney (youpiii), kitchen and a biiig bathroom (with no glass in the windows haha). 

We had wonderful views over the hills, the South-oriented side, so the sun was going up on the left and going down on the right warming up the terrasse through the day. 

  

That's where we had our teas, meditations, brunches, massage sessions, talks, massage sessions again. 

The house is just behind the vipassana center so every morn we'd go for a group sitting, very practical! Just close to the house there are around 14 monks and nuns living, and 3 minutes from here some more 10. We had two of them over for a tea and Tibetan pizza next day, and they invited us in their turn to have some momos (I loooove momos!). I've already showed you the picture of them. They are two of the happiest and most full of compassion people I've ever met, I thought they were like children, very naive and very wise - naturally wise - at the same time. Spoke a lot about meditations and Dalai-Lama and their paths.