Colourful changemaking and big cats
Wow, this last month has been action packed and I have to revert back to end of March to catch up.
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| Scandi tour of Kathmandu |
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| Anki and I at Boudha stupa |
I had the pleasure of visits from both my cousin Ann
Kristin from Oslo and my dear friend Milka and her family from France. Then Dan
came from the UK and now Anna from the UK is here, she is although here working
but still. I am loving it!
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| Anki playing with the kids |
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| The painter woman |
in to the school.
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| We had great helpers to finish the job! |
Anamika was sound asleep next to us, far away from the scary reality we
were both facing. I saved up enough courage to walk out in the corridor to see
if I could see something, but there was nothing. I was happily unaware of the
windows we had forgotten to close in one of the classrooms when painting as
else.. We finally fell asleep again around 2am and had some stories to tell in
the morning.
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| Before... |
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| ..and after! |
A school teacher then told us that there had been sightings of snow leopards
in the area the last couple of days and it might have been them paying us a
visit. I don't need to tell you that we triple checked the locks on the door
and windows the next night.. Most likely some of these bigger kitties came to
see us, but didn't get in. These kitties kill humans, like..
We finished off the painting on Thursday morning and spent the afternoon
hiking up a hill nearby, Namo Buddha.
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| Namo Buddha is on the hilltop to the right |
Namo Buddha
At the top is a monastery and the tale says that thousands of years ago,
three princes were out hunting and they found a tigress with her cubs. She was
too weak to hunt to feed herself and would die if she wouldn't get food leading
to the cubs also dying. The youngest prince, "Great Being", thought
that he had so many good fortunes and that offering his flesh to feed the
tigress would save her and her cubs, and be a good deed.
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| Heading up to Namo Buddha |
He went back to the
tigress, telling his older brothers to go back to their parents as he had
something to do. His mother was having a nap, and dreamt that three white doves
were flying and the smallest one got taken by a hawk. She woke up distraught,
thinking that the three doves must be her sons and that her youngest was in
danger. The youngest had tried to get the tigress to wake up that much that she
would eat him, but she was too tired. Then he cut himself and spread his blood
around her mouth, and that made her senses wake up and she finally got up and
ate him.
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| From the place where Great Being offered himself to the tigress |
The other two brothers went back to the spot where they had seen the
tigress and the cubs, and only found the ripped clothes from their younger
brother. As the Queen mother and the others in the family were very upset, Great Being, now reborn as Great
Courage in the heavenly kingdom called Tushita, came back in spirit and spoke
to them all and explained what he had done and why he wanted to save the cubs,
and they all agreed that it was very praiseworthy and that separation from our
lives on earth is a natural cause and should not be feared. If you live a life
doing good deeds, you will be reborn in a nice place and if doing bad deeds,
you will be reborn in a dark place. The family then committed to do only good
deeds to people and hope to meet in the next lives.
I find a lot of learnings in this tale, and I am grateful that I got to go there.
Be good, do good.
Love & Light
Jen xx
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