Spiritual

Öskü

Yesterday I was at Öskü to attend the mastercourse of my former theatre. It is a small village and has a very special roundish christian zion (chapel). It was built in Roman style on the top of a hill which is said to have a special spiritual irradiaton.

There were about 30-35 participants and we started with a short meditation in the chapel. After then came the warm-up session which was very current thanks to the ice-cold wind that has blown on the top of the hill. The things we did - energy-exercises that are usually used in Taichi - were very popular, but some of them seemed to be a bit difficult for some people. The whole thing took for about 30 minutes and by the end people were all surprised that it worked, they got all warmed up. Hehe :)) they did not believe before that it might work :))))

Anyway, after the physical part we jumped into the acting part. We had 4 hours to write a short screenplay, and work out the details of and stand on stage the theme we pulled from a hat. The alumni group I was in (there were 5 of us) finished very quickly, so the director decided to shoot a short movie of our story. The story itself was a thriller in which I was a kidnapper prostitute. I always enjoy playing the bad person :))
After the time was up we watched the stories of all the four-five groups and then the event was over and we all came back to Budapest. I got home by 9 pm and was so dead tired that after a long hot bath (I fell asleep in the bathtube) I fainted into my bed. Theatre and movie works always draw off all my energy, they require a whole individual.

Philos

This morning I filled out the Application Form to the Buddhist College, to the Comparative Religious Philosopy course and will have to submit it tomorrow. The cool thing is that they teach ALL sort of stuff, hermeticism and such included. YAY! :) I however try not to have deep expectations about it, as it is a Buddhist College after all, so we will see how deeply they go into these issues. Also, I have a lot of extra credits because of my language examinations, so I really hope they'll accept me. The written and oral exams will be sometime around the end of May. I still have to finish the mandatory reading but I have only a few pages left of that. It is an interesting book (Buddha's Speaches), about the rules and teachings of Buddha for the early monastic community.

What makes it difficult is that I just found another cool book too, so I kind of read the two things smilutaneously. This one is the Book of Splendor (Livre des Splendeurs) by Eliphas Lévi. It is not the translation of Zohar, but rather a book about Lévi's views on Quabbalah, and on the essence of what Zohar is about. It has some very high level things about -by my understanding- "the" absolute and about duality, about the Creation, but I am sure I will have to read the book again a few more times to be able to correctly understand it at least on a basic level. Well, as soon as my entrance examination procedure is over I will start reading the Zohar itself. I already found an electronic version in Hungarian, but I try to get a printed form if possible. This subject attracts me like a magnet, in the same time I feel like a blind, poking about for finding my way.