One of my most moving moments in Nepal took place at the top of the Guru Rinpoche mountain where Pia and Lakha had arranged 4 monks to pray for our wishes. I already had at home am too wild for this moment and had done me some ideas on how I see myself going forward and what I want for myself and my loved ones. A few things I think obstruct me in my everyday life and which I have meditated a lot on getting to manifest itself ... got free rein and I can reveal that several of my innermost desires that have gotten so very focused and have come true already. We arrived at the mountain and the first inside the Guru Rinpoche cave and then went up on top, sitting in the broiling heat and wrote down our want, one on each flag, the monks pray for and send out with the wind. Get a little blessed wings here:
Festival of Lights or Diwali held in many parts of the world, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Trinidad, Tobago, Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji and Nepal as here. Many peoples parties, both Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. The party lasts for 5 days and after the new moon between October to november. Want to experience it in 2012 it is 13 November. This year landende it on the 26th October. The whole city is cleaned and all orders of their homes so they are ready to receive visitors. Especially decorate the exterior with light and mandala on the street. For five days in a row turn the lights and at the 5th day celebrations of the morning. This is an official holiday and is very similar to our Christmas Eve it. 24 December. By the Light celebration celebrate everything good over evil and trust that the spiritual power surpasses all evil. First Today in the business sign, the day the Indians transferred to a new finalcielt years. Second Today, anything with demons, which I have not quite understood, sorry. Third day adores the lakshmi, which stands for the welfare and her benevolent desire to fulfill everyone's wishes. 4th Today is a very long story about patala.Men most goes out to his mother in the family celebrates 5th day is something with Yama Dvitiya. However, celebrating the Nepalese as a brother and sister day where they invite home and shelves siblings closet.
On the Diwali night, the fifth day we sat on a rooftop, on a small local Tibetan restaurant clean and had momos overlooking the stupa, which was lit up to tens of thousands of lights and enjoyed the sight of the fireworks. It could best be compared to Eve, but a warm evening with bare feet in flip flops and a very spiritual atmosphere. You can believe that I can recommend you to be part of a diwali celebration.
Today is the 22 and I am in no way in the Christmas mood. I bought some gifts in Nepal, as I have come to give away .. so now I'm still on the Christmas shopping and max teeth of it. Actually I love to enrich people with one thing that I know they will appreciate that I have taken the time to find and or self-made. But now I stand with time pressure and when not to do the things I had in mind and think that it is so sad to go to hardware store or magazine for something completely pointless in my eyes. My kids are pushing of desires, but they lack nothing. Nothing is too worn to be renewed, nothing is really burning need sub and it just makes no sense to me. I myself have for years wanted something useful to myself, my kitchen, or for a good purpose. I have been coffin glad a goat, a sponsor child or an experience. I spend many of my hours worked in the fashion industry and get more than enough input from the machine of overuse, under way there. With all due respect for those who enjoy it. My 17 year old son wants a mixer and the like. equipment in his spare time as a DJ and I super like to support them and clearly bothered him not to have a goat, but when can you actually feel that you have things enough clothes enough and would rather use his ressourser for anyone that has more use for it? I have at least some point where I do not really seem to need more stuff, but love getting surprises and feel-good experiences :-) When I visited Tibet charity in Kathmandu and then how tenacious the Tibetan Refugees is to integrate in Nepal, but it's still hard for some parents to afford school and decent food for their young, then I decided that my Christmas present to myself was to be a little forced child. The girl I chose the name Tenzin Sangmo of 3 years, whose parents have a small store, which struggle with being able to run around. With my contribution to 1600 annually, they no longer worry about little Tenzin can not get into a good school, get healthy food and clean clothes on the body. Besides, there is actually little to their own household and for me it's about on a weekly basis to ride one day and leave the car, jumping a café latte onto the café and it's home. Looking now already in my budget to give myself an elderly nursing home for my birthday!
The medieval town, Bhaktapur was the capital of Kathmandu valley from 1200-1482 when King Yaksha Malla divided the kingdom Mellen his three sons, and the valley was ruled three kingdoms until the 1776th There are 85,000 inhabitants, and the innermost of the city is car free. Here, a lot kunsthundværkere to and you can successfully find very old authentic stuff. To walk around the narrow streets with handmade bricks as foundation, laid without mortar is like being transported to medieval times where women wash clothes and children playing with hoops and dice. The city has beautiful wood carvings, ceramic, handmade paper and gørtleri.
It all started when we went home from the orphanage, along with Danish Adam and his black girlfriend from NY. We were over to see the haunted house where we had to keep Halloween and on his way home through Boudha we meet this monk and falls into conversation, though it was barely what we could understand. Adam is studying Tibetan Buddhism down here got a little understanding of the monk, the rest were shown the body language 
All those we met on our journey was by turning the head of the joints at the sight of Leishah because they've never seen a black girl in real life. The monk was also quite fascinated by her dreadlocks. He invited us in and showed us around and explained with gestures about our "monkey-mind" is a thought or philosophy that governs us all. We saw all the young monks pray in the monastery and many others sat and rolled sacred mantras to enter the Buddha, which is sealed and blessed during the prayer for three days in the monastery. All these gold-plated very precious Buddhas were to be used in a temple. It was a great experience to be allowed to be involved and on the way out we went to ask the wheel and got us all very enriched and blessed.
Wherever there are Tibetan refugees hangs prayer flags. It's the most beautiful and roligeste vision, I think. Prayer flags symbolizes Tibetan Buddhist prayers in the form of written mantras as a transmitter with the wind. The flags are oftets changed 3 days after Losar (Tibetan New Year's Eve) or by other important events holy. Each color symbolizes one of the 5 elements and is always in a specific order. Blue skies, white-water, red fire, green air or oxygen from the tree and yellow soil. Normally you see animals on the flags, which according to Buddhism is protective; dragon, Garuda, tiger and sneløve.
Throughout my cottage garden hangs prayer flags and I am so glad I took a lot to take home so I can get the sun damaged and snow mildewed replaced. If you want to decorate your living room, garden, or use the tiny paper garlands on the tree so you can find them in this shop :-)
The day before yesterday we were at the orphanage Jorpati, located in the relocation camp for 300 residents. In the past, rather than being a notorious slum, but now all flytningene integrated and most people work out among Nepalese. Within its walls, there is now peace and tranquility, small flowers spirrer, the streets are neatly swept, and all live close side by side in complete harmony with their own small stupa in the center of the settlement, where the current goes clockwise around and triggers prayer wheels. The day has come for their lama, Rinpoche Lakha (as they are closely linked) had to come and bless them. This is done in the best Buddhist view in that they are easily bent with a white silk scarf called a KATAK printed with mantras, in the hands. A KATAK symbolizes the desire for a long life and a pure friendship. The dealer bows as Lakha Rinpoche Lama hang it around their necks, which they gather their hands in front of the heart and bows again. It is a very beautiful ceremony. Several of the older people with disabilities want Lakha to breathe at the hearing ear or sight awakened mind, or how they've hurt. Not just the kids from the orphanage with also second Generation Refugees go to school here in Jorpati, where they learn English, computer, graphic design and tailoring. By supporting or sponsoring a child, finanserer not only the child but the entire family, which means that they can maintain an okay living standard and not to worry too much about getting everything to run around. But concentrate on supporting kids in their school and very disciplined homework and desire to learn.
We traveled in a group where none of us had relief in the form of school supplies, clothes, shoes or dressings, there was also a Danish couple who visited your sponsored child, much to the delight of all parties. It was a crazy touching and exciting day ... the most amazing was to see how well they have changed an entire neighborhood into a place where everyone wants to live and to feel the immense joy, energy, humility and discipline they show each other. I am deeply inspired by the Tibetan people.
Det første der slog mig var at pigerne kom meget tæt på og ville vide en masse om Danmark og min familie og mine børn, de talte bedre engelsk end jeg selv efter endt skolegang, jeg var dybt imponeret. When I visited the refugee camp Jorpati and see how they live and help Lakha Lama velsigenlse of some of the 300 residents, I also met some fantastic confident, happy and silly children who has no parents and live at the orphanage, there are financing criticized by Tibet Charity. The first thing that struck me was that the girls came very close and would know a lot about Denmark and my family and my children, they spoke better English than I do after finishing school, I was deeply impressed. I ask them what they think is the best they can think of and they cry at once "Justin Bieber! ..." While they smiled ear to ear, and sighs deeply. In the spring I went to Justin Bieber concert with my 12 year old daughter in Milan and had obviously filmed on my iphone. The girls could hardly breathe at the sight and when they saw pictures of my girls, they were quickly made a plan of who should be pen pal with whom and they immediately went in to write letters in English. Meanwhile, Adam (a Dane who studies Buddhism here in Kathmandu) come to. The kids hung on his neck, by the reunion of him. He previously taught at school. Very quickly the girls had drawn and written, and even total fine jewelry, pencils and other gizmo cots that I had to take home to my girls. I was moved to tears. Here you can meet; dikey, Pema, Yeshi and Tsering and a few of their friends.
It was a unique experience to be part of puja (fællesbøn) at the nursing home in Dharamsala. 140 elderly people living at home, but some take walk on the Dalai Lama meditationsti and continued well down the mountain to get to this wonderful collection point every morning. Jampaling nursing home is located just under the Dalai Lama recidens and operated by the Tibetan Interior Ministry, which has difficulty in raising funds for its daily operations. Tibet charity supports home and you can like me, wish you (for Christmas) a sponsorship to a dear old Tibetan and samtidtig help to support the entire home. I took pictures of them all while the fairs and turns merrily on praying mill for it not to stall. Note thankaérne on the wall behind.
ps: I have many pictures of this man who no matter where I crawled, kept eye contact. Fascinating is not it?
We had a road trip of no more than 15 min. from the hotel to the orphanage Jorpati. Here you can see what you can manage to see in so little time hanging out of car window in Boudhanath. Click on the thumbnails and the enlarged ENJOY!
