Saturday November 27th, 2010. Posted by Alex:
The last few days have seen some very different weather, and given the place a different look, as the temperature hovered a couple of foggy degrees above zero:
Ideal for some of that Tibetan yoga practice! But since I do that wearing basically only my underpants, there are strictly no pictures of that little exercise!
A few terraces further down, the misty riverbank is also good for reciting some yidam mantras. (An activity performed with more clothing on, I should add):
I tried to catch a picture of the splashing water sparkling in the low shafts of sunlight, but I’d need a much faster lens to catch that. All the same, I think the picture does show some of the sense of mystery and peace:
The banks are a bit rocky, so you need to give a little careful thought to the matter of what you are going to sit on. This morning the temperature was properly below zero, giving us whitened hills around and ice on the ground:
A good way to start the day, for sure!
Wednesday August 19th, 2009. Posted by Alex:
I suppose it was nearly inevitable that having worried about not getting enough work, I would now be worried about meeting the deadlines, which is why the blog has been a bit slow.
Anyway, last weekend I took teachings from Lama Pema Dorje in a form of Tibetan yoga – a relatively gentle form, fairly safe and not “strange and secret”. I wrote about it a little more over on DangZang. Here I will just mention that it was very enjoyable. Apparently Nougat, our large new dog, missed me when I went out on Saturday morning, but then he had some sardines and a bit of a lie down:
… so everything was all right then.
I did, however, notice how security is spreading everywhere. The first time I went to put on my loose-fitting “yoga pants”, I thought it would be discreet to pop out to change in the stairwell. I had just started when a door opened and a man looked out from what I then saw was the “Chinese Massage Parlour”. I had not noticed the dome of the security camera in the ceiling, so I guess he wondered what I was up to. But no harm done! Lesson: examine environment before taking trousers off. What is a Chinese massage parlour anyway?
Saturday December 1st, 2007. Posted by Alex:
Things have been a bit busy the last few weeks, as I’ve been helping set up another website for Karma Samten Choeling. Take a peek at: Karma Samten Choeling
I’ve also heard from an old Oxford buddy, Keith Bloomfield, recently retired from being UK Amassador in Kathmandu, who sent me a link of a singing friend from there, who does sound as if she has a really nice voice: Telepathy
Take a look!
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This isn’t the interesting, focussed blog you might have been looking for… "Pica Pica" is, as I'm sure you knew, the name for the common magpie. It's no more than a collection of bits and pieces I wanted to make available for friends and family. I have other blogs for dharma related material (at DangZang), and a small one for translation at my work site. Oh yes, it's by Alex Wilding |
