Vipassana LK

Maman, Papa, I found what I was looking for in Asia.

Here is the Sri Lankan website (English): http://www.dhamma.org/en/

Et voici le site français : http://www.mahi.dhamma.org/index.php?id=4049&L=2

Some travelers I  met told me about Vipassana meditation. Indeed they had done the 10 day course and had found it VERY interesting. They all advised me to do it. "It's free", "You can donate at the end", "You experiment something really interesting". Or just "You SHOULD do it". The way they were saying it inspired me a lot. I would like to thank Jacek (Italy), Willeke (ND) and Marc (Australia), warmly. After 1 month of physical hard work, what about sitting 10 hours a day for 10 days? In the shadow, in a brand new nature center, with nice and smiling people around? :-P Hehehe! I had been told it was difficult. 10h of meditation a day, for 10 days, noble silence all the time: it is truly very difficult. The mind gets even crazy Hahaha! Some people didn't finish the course, or even left the 1rst or 2nd day. "Finish it", "Stay!", "It is only 10 days of your life". That's what I told myself the 6 first days. Then appeared the point. Yes, it is worth it. The experience itself is amazing. Furthermore, if you want to carry on, it is a starting point for a different life. :-)

Wwoofing accomodation

Paddy destroyed by harsh rains

Une partie de la Vipassana team. Il y avait plus de Sri  Lankais que sur la photo !

Vipassana Meditation Hall

Westerners Vipassana team

Kandy LK

Farming... I learnt a lot, saw a lot, got experiences and different points of views... But you know what?! That is tiring, as well! :-/

6 hours a day, of hard work, carrying trunks, barking and cutting them, digging dirt and making clay mud, carrying it, chicken, cow and goat poos collecting, carrying and spreading, hoeing to make a garden plot :-), collecting paddies in the sun between 10am and 1pm! Crazy work. 

Soooooo, I created some days off :-)

With the people I met, mostly while hitchhiking, I wandered around the farm: Matale, Dambulla, but mostly around Kandy, in the Knuckles mountains. Hills of huge tea estates, tall trees, pines trees too, imported by the British, fresh streams flowing, dams for bathing.
And on the road, an organic sign. Oh! Organic products. Nice! Let's see it. An organic restaurant, nice again! Let's have breakfast there. What is the brand, the company? Biofoods?!!! I heard this name 20 times a week for 3 years. Biofoods is the main organic and fairtrade spices supplier of L'Herbier du Diois. I found them without looking for. Let's buy some stuff then. Tijlbert, I supported you a bit! 

Le thé sur les collines

Sameera, ready to ride

I went to a LK wedding :-)

Nisham and the Knuckles

Biofoods shop!