Pictures of the Flooding in Laem Din Area in Chaweng on Samui Island

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The Water-Challenge is over, for now...

Well, as many sources report, now the south has got it's fair share of flooding, loads of damage, a massive landslide hit Thung Sai in the province of Nakhon si Thammarat, at Sichon District, Songkla, Hat yai were the worst hit.

Here on Samui Island, floods receded now and life returns to normal, it was bad, very bad the flooding seems to get more intense, year by year!

All the sealed surfaced, filled natural watershed areas, wetlands... well, everything has it's price and things attached, nobody thinks at the very moment about it much, but then if the unavoidable results hit, everybody get's a wake up call!

As the looks of it, not many seem to care, maybe for a short while, but then life goes on, the money trail...never forget "if it's rainin', it's rainin'...."

rainy season has arrived in force

It's been raining a fair bit, much of the central and northern parts of the country are inundated, some people lost their livelihood, some even committed suicide, as everything they had and hoped for, has gone with the floods.

"our goal is to transform suffering into present awareness, while the lower self uses it for self-pity.”

I think it's very easy thing to say, if not affected, very, very difficult if entangled in the midst of it all!

One may even perceive the demand "to smile as a buddha" in the midst of all this suffering as cruelty or some sort of perverted ignorance, but then what can be done?

Things are just happening all the way and it's said that it is all results of previous deeds, karma is the magic word, but how about mercy then?

Is there mercy for the unprotected, feeble, sick, homeless and old?

No, there isn't I am afraid!

Why not and why has there to be so much suffering?

How to teach someone who is suffering:

"As long as we think we are the self, we feel attached and fall into sorrow."

How, I wonder?

whew... one more month in the furnace...

...time just flies by, but then considering the events and all that what rally matters, being evening after evening back on the mat, yes, of course including the occasional break, as is needed, that will be then replaced by a nice extended 90 minutes walk along the beach, enjoying the clean seabreeze, caressing the skin like lukewarm silk.....walking meditation into the sunset, birds are chirping away in the trees, gathering for a good nights rest, tuning in to their evening songs, some are telling their stories and about the birdseye views they experienced during the day, moving like almost weightless cottonballs, a few, rollercoaster like long rolls, loops, sliding down, forth and back as if on invisible giant swings,defying gravitaton, whilst ploughing through the mild evening air, the dramatic colors of the setting sun as a backdrop for their performances, clouds, scattered over the turquoise blue skies, are set on fire, feathers of white with orange, purple, pink and vermillion, many shades, the whole scale of red's and blues are turning the sky into a masterpiece without an artists hand and his brush, slowly the shadows of the night are taking over on silent wings....Venus shows it's nearby presence first, sparkling earliest on the dark blue velvety skies with the last silver lining of the setting sun, sunken long below the horizon... the grains of sand on the beach seem to reflect the twinkling starlights just eager to compete with their heavenly counterparts... as if glitter, tossed by an unseen hand all over.... jus for you and me..actually with no purpose at all, it's just as it is.

...signed in for another 3 months or 92 days on the mat....

...back to the routine in Absolute Yoga Studio, yesterday first Session... of "gentle flow", nice flow, stretching, bending, holding... 90 minutes where gone like a whiff of time, but still, why is it so different from home practice I wonder?

Guess one isn't confined to the goldfish bowl called "home"..."swimmin in a fishbowl, year after year.." feels like it is already part of liberation, just to be somewhere else, doing something even slightly different.

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watching the mind fly by...

"Sympathy is what we need, my friend - cause there's not enough love to go around.... and half the world hates the other half.... and half the world has all the food..... and half the world lies down and quietly starves.... cause there's not enough love to go around...and sympathy is what do we need my friend.. an sympathy is what we need my friend... cause there is not enough love to go around...."

- words by Rare Bird 1969 -

“What happens next?”

“Nothing happens next. This is it!”