Tuesday 3 March 2009

Plum Village, Meditation Retreat in South of France




















I should say Plum Village, Part 2:

This additional posting is really just pictures. These pictures were taken by Kian Bakhtiari and he was kind enough to come to our room on our last night and download all his pictures on our computer. Kian and his father arrived the same day we did, and we were allowed to witness a major transformation in Kian over the week. We were very happy to meet both he and his father.

This was just another instance of the humility, generosity, joy and love that we shared with many others. What a wonderful experience it was! As Chris said on our last night there, "this is the first time I ever felt rested when I was at the end of a vacation." I could not have agreed more.

The third picture from the top, guy in middle with blue jacket was birthday boy. He went to town and bought all the ingredients for several mammoth birthday sheet cakes, starting with 20 lbs of flour. It was chocolate on chocolate so was loved by all. The pictures you see with the big paddle, they are making the cake and big paddle was used to stir the enormous concoction. One of the fun and funny times. We had chocolate cake for days.

Enjoy the pictures! I will eventually get all the photos uploaded to http://picasaweb.google.com/donniedayp/, but at present, that site has a problem. I will either get it figured out or get in touch with google; probably get in touch with google.

Bon jour!

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