Happy Monday ka! Back home from England laew ka!
Let me share with you the following ka:- A happy and peaceful visit to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hampstead…. to southeast England ka. This is a place of practice in the forest tradition.It offers opportunities for guests and visitors to stay and develop mindfulness. Arm, our TPop Plus (our little team to conduct assigned workshops), who's studying at King's College was there once and so it was even better for him to show us around. We saw quite a few visitors from Sri Lanka and other locals. Some went there to help cook or offer food to monks and nuns as well as visitors ka. We also learned how generous some people were to buy a house in the area (almost 3 million pounds) and donate it for the temple use! The monastery was founded by Luang Por Sumedho (American) and the current Abbot is Ajarn Amaro (British).
It was a special visit as we had an opportunity to meditate briefly and walk around the area in the best weather!
- A chance to go to Folyes, one huge bookstore in London ka! With Arm's suggestion, I bought a few. He led me to the sections I like which were on leadership, future, and cross culture ka. I finished reading 'Inclusion' which is an easy read booklet, comprising 9 articles from Harvard Business Review ka...... will summarize for our egroup soon.
As for other books bought, here they are ka:
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, The Culture Map by Erin Meyer, Future Cultures by Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith,The Excellence Book by Kevnin Duncan and Rosie Duncan, and The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett ...... and two free booklets from the temple on, 'Who will feed the mice?' and 'Clarity and Calm for Busy People' kaa!
Which should I read next dee ka? I'm asking to make sure I'll have the urge to read sooner than later ka!
- Life outdoors and frequent exercises are a must when possible! More time was spent with my niece’s family and the kids as the latter had their one-week mid term break. We followed them and their father to a venue with a few football pitches. Too bad I didn't get to ask how much the rent was but I saw how people of all ages love playing football ka. It was amazing to see real seniors playing there with their peers and it went for like half an hour with a coach. The people there were very friendly to kids as they allowed the kids to play in their pitches until the full team reached the place. This was so encouraging and the boys couldn't be happier.
- Life outdoors and frequent exercises are a must when possible! More time was spent with my niece’s family and the kids as the latter had their one-week mid term break. We followed them and their father to a venue with a few football pitches. Too bad I didn't get to ask how much the rent was but I saw how people of all ages love playing football ka. It was amazing to see real seniors playing there with their peers and it went for like half an hour with a coach. The people there were very friendly to kids as they allowed the kids to play in their pitches until the full team reached the place. This was so encouraging and the boys couldn't be happier.
On other days, my niece asked the boys' nanny to take them out to parks or museums. This helped the boys not to stay in their flat all the time and more importantly these days, I think, to stay away from the games and ipad ka.
That's all for my trip to London ka. Now I'm hoping to get over the jet lag still but harder to stop thinking of and missing our two boys there ka!
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