Back in Kathmandu I first cleaned the lung fed with the daily smog of the capital of Nepal. She was quite fast enough, but in this town kindly eaten - cough. Therefore, running about half the people with more or less effective respirators around - some with real filter and exhaust valves, others only with material at the mouth. The traffic chaos is thanks! First, I lived near the Bodnath Stupa with mystic atmosphere. Girl with hundreds of oil lamps, pilgrims, incense sticks, monks, and the eternal song of the mantra. All that I am a little reminiscent of Jerusalem, the Middle Ages und Magie. Später zogen wir ins Touristenviertel - auch dies hat so seine Annehmlichkeiten. Wenn das erlebte auch eher an Berlin erinnert als Asien scheint es zwar nicht nötig, ist aber eine dennoch angenehme Abwechslung. 
Die folgenden 10 Tage sollten ja immerhin sehr ruhig werden, eine Einführung in die Meditation nach Interpretation Goenkas der Buddhatexte. Dies bedeutet 10 Tage schweigen, kein Blickkontakt, keine Kommunikation mit wenigen Ausnahmen zu den Lehrern. 4 Uhr aufstehen bei knapp über 0 °C ohne Heizung in allen Räumen, 10 Stunden täglich Meditation, zwei Stunden Unterricht, Snack um 18:00 und das ist auch das letzte was wir ab dem Mittag bekommen. Keine Musik, no books, no pens. Men and women separately. Say, the spirit remains very little of the outside-initiated activity. The site is very nice, pretty far away from Kathmandu, calm and green in a small National Park. That was really interesting, with many of the actual effects of the redeemed himself a little feeling, peace, balance was not set with me. Instead, my brain was in full swing, perhaps out of fear before switching off. Also, the already promised to start recognizing the "universal, ultimate truth," I may have scared a little, perhaps was not exactly motivating. All in all, this was still a stay-promoting to feel a quiet Christmas together, I could think of many things and people without urging me on time. Even these 10 days have sparked my interest in meditation, when I seem to need a little more time than others. 
Back in Kathmandu, we took a trip by bicycle - the first time in my life was when I truly need a bike helmet - and a breathing filter - into the tourism and Buddhist center of the city. The day after we went to India and Thailand to Myanmar - a real ordeal. overnight to the Indian border, where the 20-hour train and also to short night in Calcutta in the plane to Bangkok. Still very nice train is great! Green fields waving with colorful saris pass the, lakes, villages with mud or wooden huts, forests and old stone buildings. Calcutta was contrary to all expectation very beautiful, peaceful and greener than many other cities and Bangkok is unsurpassed in terms of friendliness and openness of people and the food. I hope I will not even fat ...
Arrived on the last day of the decade, I've never indulged in with a rucksack on the back of the food. There was a rather poor New Year's celebration - at the international level I was assured by various parties. I was sitting there, about 2 clock in the morning, drink the New Year's punch from a larger vessel and look briefly on the street is a reflection of recognition in the not so quick brain to feel - Anna expires Friedrichshagen there I think to myself, and yes - it is good. The world is small. There
The next two days is to see a lot of Buddhism and culture in markets to breathe before I after Yangon (Rangoon) flying.
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