[Bumblebee]

Hi,

yesterday I was `released from 10 days vipassana meditation course. It was tough but a valuable experience. For those interested, I will post more on it on my blog today or tomorrow

Helga

Helga`s India blog

Edited by Bumblebee, 27 August 2007 - 02:56 PM.

[batistuta]

I will check your blog later as I am quite interested in anything do with Buddhism.


Cheers,

[Cosmic Bodhi]

Hi bumblebee

I've also just finished a vipassana retreat , how are you adaping to the unreal /real world?!

Are you staying in Bhagsu?

Bumblebee, on Aug 27 2007, 08:06 AM, said:

Hi,

yesterday I was `released from 10 days vipassana meditation course. It was tough but a valuable experience. For those interested, I will post more on it on my blog today or tomorrow

Helga

Helga`s India blog

[susanj]

Hi Helga,

I cant open your blog, I have just recently finished a 2 week "White Tara Retreat" at a Buddhist Centre in Wales,UK, I have also been to M G and also to Sherabling Monastery, if you are around that area for a while its worth going to Sherabling Monastery in/near Baijnath HP, phone first if you want to stay as there are empowerments going on for a couple of months, you are also close to HH Karmapa's monastery, and to Tenzin palmos' Nunnery - she is such an inspiration.

Travel safely, last time I was in India (March this year) I travelled alone, but was careful.  If you get the chance go and have food/coffee at Chonor House in McLeod Ghanj. Ask for Detchen the manager and tell him Susan says "HELLO and do I have aroom yet for HH Dalia Lamas' teachings in the spring.  

Best wishes Susanj  

Bumblebee, on Aug 27 2007, 09:06 AM, said:

Hi,

yesterday I was `released from 10 days vipassana meditation course. It was tough but a valuable experience. For those interested, I will post more on it on my blog today or tomorrow

Helga

Helga`s India blog

[kidsan]

susanj, on Aug 27 2007, 04:06 PM, said:

Hi Helga,

I have just recently finished a 2 week "White Tara Retreat" at a Buddhist Centre in Wales,UK,

hi Susan...was it at taraloka by any chance?? I am writing from vajraloka 'up the road'...small world!

[SAS]

it might not interest the people who inititated this blog....but this if for those people who....want to know...about vipassana.....
I have been reading blogs by so many people, some lost.....and some you found (atleast little) light..... I never believed in this blogging thing, just thought it was yet another way of killing time.
what I am now going to share with you all guys is my experience with vipasaana. well my uncle and aunt (shailendra and jhoomar) first told me about this, they both had attended 10 days course. I am a complete non-believer in sadhu's, baba's, ashrams etc... and the thought of surrendering to some guru was out of question for me. I dont believe any such guru's exist.
anyways, I think all our actions are due to some reaction...and so happened....I was compelled to try this technique out (my personal life was hay-wire since the past 11 years). though I had tuned my mind to be calm but within me there was a ever rupting volcano ready to blast on the slightest provocation.... so I went to attend vipassana at dharamkot.
yes....10 days seems like 10 years (or probably more)
but the result was definately worth the touture of waking up at 4am.............
at the end of this course....I was calm.....calm from inside.......I had shed all my miseries...(the prominent ones atleast).....
and I really am looking forward to attending more courses.......
I will be happy to share more....if someone is interested....

[priya]

Welcome SAS!

I'm sure Bumblebee, who initiated this thread, will be interested in your viewpoint.

Tell us a bit more about yourself, your interests and what drew you to our forum, we'd all like to hear from you.

[kullukid]

Just thought this thread was worth bumping to the front page again. Helga's updated her blog recently & there are some wonderful photo's of her adventures in Ladakh. KK
http://helgainfullflight.blogspot.com/

[priya]

Thanks for that 'bump' KK - It certainly was worth it and an excellent read.  Great photos too and sensitively written about the animals.

Somehow I think there's a lot more to come from Helga.........what wonderful 'life' experiences.

[purpleapple]

something for serenity then...

Edited by purpleapple, 03 May 2008 - 02:15 PM.

[Bumblebee]

Hi there,

I am just back home from 9 months of traveling (5.5 half months India, 3 months Thailand and I finished of with 2 more weeks India my love and again Karnataka mainly (also Kerala quicly to get darshan from Amma)
This time again I stayed with locals for a while, thanks to my Indian friend and his contacts. I stayed with another Brahmin lady (94 years old) and her son in a rural village some half hour from Thirtathalli and had a great time with the cows, the mother speaking Kanada to me and I trying to figure out what she wanted or said, being woken up in the middle of the night by the mother offering me a banana , villagers all coming to the house to meet me, and so on.
Post on my last two weeks in India as always on my blog.

Oh, AND.. I will do my second vipassana meditation retreat next week this time in my own country. I thought, after having traveled for that long, being more on my path but still seeking and having seen and expienced so many things and having met so many people, a meditation retreat could be good now to let things settle and see what happens inside me

India is written in my mind and heart for good and I hope to get back latest next year!

Love and Light,

Helga

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