Tibetan Lunar New Year
This weekend is pretty busy again of course.
Yesterday we had the annual council meeting of our Buddhist Church where I also work as a responsible for external affairs.
Yesterday we had a lenghty discussion about all sorts of questions regarding the past, present and the future of the Church. In the same time I was also asked to prepare again that incredible amount of Tibetan-Hungarian style cookie that is usually consumed during the Lunar New Year. So I was kind of tearing about between the kitchen and the huge room of the house where the meeting was held.
We organized a big get together upon the event of the Tibetan Lunar New Year. The gathering is taking place today in the Butokugan (the new huge asian martial arts sport venue that I wrote about some posts before).
There will be a short newyear-starting ceremony, then I will have to read two folk tales that I chose prior to the whole thing and the Lama will teach about those. This part of the event will already be very light and entertaining, and after the tales a folk ensemble will play all kinds of old-stylish folkmusic. There will be food, drink, ect. Alltogether we expect a few hundred people today.
However I am a bit sorry that the event fell on this date.
After my trip to Belgium for Thomas' seminar was cancelled I wrote to him, and he graciously invited me to be his guest for this weekend for a seminar with Sheila. I thought "WOW", as meeting Sheila has also been on my wish-list since quite a while.
It was an awsome offer and opportunity so I got all turned on when I got his invitation. I tried to excuse myself from the Council meeting and from today's happenings in the Butokugan, but I could not. I should have been back to Hungary by Saturday afternoon which was impossible to make, so unfortunately I had to turn down the invitation. *Sigh*
Anyway, I hope that at least the New Year party will be a good one.
It is a very big sacrifice from me so I hope that the party today will compensate me a tiny bit for missing this rare opportunity to train with Thomas and Sheila.
Yesterday we had the annual council meeting of our Buddhist Church where I also work as a responsible for external affairs.
Yesterday we had a lenghty discussion about all sorts of questions regarding the past, present and the future of the Church. In the same time I was also asked to prepare again that incredible amount of Tibetan-Hungarian style cookie that is usually consumed during the Lunar New Year. So I was kind of tearing about between the kitchen and the huge room of the house where the meeting was held.
We organized a big get together upon the event of the Tibetan Lunar New Year. The gathering is taking place today in the Butokugan (the new huge asian martial arts sport venue that I wrote about some posts before).
There will be a short newyear-starting ceremony, then I will have to read two folk tales that I chose prior to the whole thing and the Lama will teach about those. This part of the event will already be very light and entertaining, and after the tales a folk ensemble will play all kinds of old-stylish folkmusic. There will be food, drink, ect. Alltogether we expect a few hundred people today.
However I am a bit sorry that the event fell on this date.
After my trip to Belgium for Thomas' seminar was cancelled I wrote to him, and he graciously invited me to be his guest for this weekend for a seminar with Sheila. I thought "WOW", as meeting Sheila has also been on my wish-list since quite a while.
It was an awsome offer and opportunity so I got all turned on when I got his invitation. I tried to excuse myself from the Council meeting and from today's happenings in the Butokugan, but I could not. I should have been back to Hungary by Saturday afternoon which was impossible to make, so unfortunately I had to turn down the invitation. *Sigh*
Anyway, I hope that at least the New Year party will be a good one.
It is a very big sacrifice from me so I hope that the party today will compensate me a tiny bit for missing this rare opportunity to train with Thomas and Sheila.
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