#suanmokkh

[chartaimaginem]

Some interesting Thai modern architecture at a temple in Lamet, Thailand 🇹🇭 . . . #SuanMokkh #thaiarchitecture #modernarchitecture #thaidesign #modernart #mural #thailand #thailandtourism #thailanddesign #thailandarchitecture #worldexplorer #solotravel #budgettravel #luxurytravel #luxurytraveladvisor #meditation #asiatravel #visitthailand #secretthailand #brutalism #brutalist (at Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdK1EYEshCF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[spiritualcapitalist]

I guess we sometimes need to turn our backs to the things we are familiar or comfortable with. We need to get out of our comfort zone. Sometimes, our teacher may turn away from us. We need to find teachings in ourselves, not be attached to the external teacher. #Repost #throwback #throwbackthursday #teacher #spiritualteacher #buddhadasa #buddhadasabhikkhu #buddhadasaindapannoarchives #suanmokkh #bangkok #thailand @soonkv (@get_repost) ・・・ I always like this picture. Very unconventional portrait of a #buddhist #monk in #meditation

[thejourneystarts]

THE CHANGE // PART 1

05-07-’17 - One ought not to long for what has passed away, nor be anxious over things that are yet to come. The past has left us, the future has not yet arrived.

And there I stood. Looking up, to the sky and her almost full moon. Upwards, because that’s where my vision of my future told me to rise to.

(This is the story I wrote in my diary on day 5 of the meditation camp. Bare in mind I was here 3 years ago in November 2014 when I was only 17 years old. Now I’m 20 and I’m returning to the place where I found myself through sustaining silence for 11 days, sleeping on a wooden pillow, 2 meals a day, waking up at 4AM and being separated from any electronics and any form of communication. Being alone with your mind only, and of course mother nature and her mosquitos. This is day five, a day I changed again.)

I felt like crap. My mind was somehow controlling everything and was forcing a negative energy on me. Not seeing people smile was one of the reasons I was feeling worse, even though I realised the people here are focused and the environment is taking its toll on some people, but yet, I feel horrible. My thoughts were getting dark and I am questioning everything: my purpose of being here, the way I’m changing, the intentions of the world and the people I see. I was almost feeling like a monster as if the world was against me and thought I was the strangest thing alive. I see people as something scary and mean and I lost sight of the good. I started to believe that whoever I was, it didn’t mean anything and wouldn’t matter. Everything is temporary and when it’s gone, there will be nothing or no one to care about it, cause being cared about is what makes things matter, right? I’ve been collecting flowers, blossoms, coconuts and other fancy things. I use them do decorate my empty room. I’m in room 208, when I was 17 I cried in the exact same room. Room 208 in 2017. Coincidence? I don’t know? Faith? I don’t know, but it was the only room left in that hall though. The window from my room was getting more colourful every day and it felt like I was IKEA-shopping, but then the jungle edition of it. The men who are passing by my room probably think I’m going mad, I don’t blame them though. They don’t know why and neither do I, or did I? There are two reasons why I’m putting flowers at my window.

[iwnefy]

On my way to be back in NZ

Here's some thoughts on my mind right now: This is the day 11. Or, it's even finished already. Whatsoever, i'd just done the 10 days of meditation retreat then came back to the social life! What experiences i had in the past 10 days...waking up at 4 am, sitting down and meditating most times, no dinner (on day 9, there was no lunch either!), sleeping on a concrete bed with a wooden pillow, being quiet and away from any electric device and the social life. I still don't know how to meditate properly and don't really know about buddhism. Though i am so grateful that i made it! I didn't even know that i could be quiet and stop smoking for 10 days. I'd never done that before! What i most enjoyed was YOGA. Oh i loved that having yoga every morning...will continue the practice for sure! And I'll never forget the time when i felt 'love and kindness'. Letting me in their umbrellas in the rain, getting rid of insects from my clothes or belongings...even we couldn't talk to each other, could felt their love and kindness as much as (or even more than) when we can communicate with words. Also it was a great opportunity to know what i need and love in my life. When i was meditating, it felt like impossible to stop music in my mind and to think of my loved ones ( and food, tbh!). So after all, figuring out 'less for more' succeeded?