sitting here sipping on my yoga "apple & cinnamon" herbal milk tea with some honey.. I just had my weekly hour of crying watching "missing" on tv ha ha.

  
yesterday the munk Chembal Lama from Nepal came to visit our studio for a short talk about life in Humla, this second largest district in Nepal, but also one of the poorest and for sure the one most away from all other civilisation.

it was a relaxed evening and I got to talk to the monk some before & after the talk aswell, he was quit curious about things and the yoga we have etc.

during the talk he explained how people live there, and showed beautiful and interesting pictures.
just to get there you have to first go to Kathmandu wich is the capitol city of Nepal, from there a 15 hour busride to a place where there is a small airport, you then fly 1 hour if & when the very small plane can actually fly because of the weather conditions etc.
..after the hour on the plane you have to walk for 3-5days!?!?! to get to the different villages in upper Humla from where he came and where he is now one of the monks in the only monastary in that district.

it is so very weird and feels unreal how they live, he explained when visiting the vasa ship museum that the way things where there felt a bit like they have, but here in Sweden that style is in a museum, he also said that when visiting a swedish school the other day it felt like they had a 5 star dinner served..
and still we complain so much about the school food here, and the kids dont want to eat tha food many times so they choose a bowl of youghurt instead.

just a small thing that they cant read, write or understand mathematics is for us so natural. so for example if/when some trekkers come by they cant sell anything to them since they dont know how to calculate..
because this is close to the Tibetan border, and it is kind of a pilgrimage path to holy Kailash mountain. so sometimes expeditions come by there.

in that area they also practice polyandry wich is the form of pologamy where the wife have more husbands. this is an old tradition that is built on that they have so many different chores that has to be done to be at least close to survive so they need bigger families basicly.

they are buddhist and dont eat meat unless is has died of natural causes so maybe once a year they get a small peace of meat.
but it seamed like each small village has also a local god and they have a elderman/priest wichhas connections with this god, and this god they ask for the daily things like better growt of their vegetables, better weather etc.

  

after the talk I had a small discussion with Chembal and Pernilla wich is the woman I have been in contact with that "works" for the swedish support group of KMCH wich is the organization that Chembal had started to make a better future life of the people in Humla.
and if all goes well I can in a few weeks time give some news about a small project wich feels right for us a buddha spa to support.
and also we had made a small collection during this week so we gave that to them aswell afterwards.

so next weekend mr Lama will be at "etnografiska museumet" to talk more, and to show more pictures etc if any one is interested in listening.

I feel again and even more we need to apprechiate what we do have here, and stop loking for tiny problems that are not at all importent..

AUM Shanti, shanti, shantíi