Happy Chökhor Düchen ✨
Today commemorates one of the most important days in the Buddhist calendar, the Buddha’s first turning of the wheel of dharma.
The Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths; The Truth of Suffering. We suffer, both physically and emotionally, getting what we do not want, and not getting what we want. He then went on to teach the Truth of the Cause of Suffering. There is a reason for why we suffer, guided by our confusion and ignorance, we continuously believe temporary phenomena to be the cause of our happiness and in turn become disappointed again and again, since they do not bring the expected result. The third Truth, the Cessation of Suffering teaches us that there is a way to work with this habitual tendency of continuously creating the causes of suffering when we just want to be happy, and free from suffering. By becoming familiar with our own mind, through the practice of meditation and training our mind we can create the causes for fully waking up from this drowsy sleep, to our mind’s true nature, already fully awake, clear and luminous. The fourth truth, the Truth of the Path shows us the way to do this.
May all beings be happy and have the causes for happiness ✨
Happy Losar to everyone! 💞🎉💫🌈
R A D H I R U G S
Here is Belu Maya, one of the weavers in Nepal that we work with, making a woolen rug in her home.
Our Radhi Rugs is a modern take on a classic Nepali rug.
Our hearts are longing for pilgrimaging in the Himalayas ✨✨
“During meditation, keep the mind unobstructed as space;
After meditation, regard the flow of events as a rainbow;
Thus the things which so allure the world, are seen to be insubstantial hallucinations.
Joy and misery are dances within a dream;
Forms and sights are a town projected by a magician;
Sounds are like one’s own voice echoed in a cave;
Those who grasp at them are mindless children.
Just as a reflected image distinctly appears when a man holds his face to a mirror,
All things are both radiantly manifest and empty;
For that very reason is cause and effect unfailing”
~ the 7th Dalai Lama, Kelsang Gyatso ✨✨✨✨
Want to join us for a Kora around Boudha Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal?
While parts of the world is still in lockdown due to COVID-19 Nepal has very much opened up its borders to foreigners and travelers, hoping to regain some of last year’s great loss of income from tourism where we had five months of strict lockdown. Tourism is one if the major sources of income in Nepal. Now we hold our breath to see in which direction things are moving and if we are able to offer our yoga & meditation journeys in Nepal this fall 🤞🧘♀️
More to come soon 💫
A new batch of non-violent silk scarves all dyed in colours of nature are ready to be sent off to Denmark 👏
Our weaver Kalita in Assam, north east India belongs to Assamese tribal communities south west of Guwahati. Her and her team of weavers spin and weave all the scarves by hand 🌱
Happy Chotrol Duchen and full moon today🙏
Alex is back in our home in Kathmandu and sent this video from this morning with the newly hung prayer flags blowing prayers into the wind around our home and beyond ✨
How do you explain the feeling of stepping inside a sacred place? And what makes it sacred in the first place?
In the Himalayas the tradition of investigating the mind and familiarizing oneself with it is an integral part of the culture and tradition. It is said that when you enter a place where practices and mantras have been made with the intention of benefitting all beings, places where meditators have realized their basic goodness, when you enter such a place you will receive those blessings too ✨