200. | What’s new in the world of remote work II.
Sometimes I have to go down seemingly fruitless paths to get somewhere. This time, finding a job was that path. Along with the lessons learned.
201. | Béla and Sherlock meeting in Chiang Mai
A chance encounter, a cold shower and an invisible switch. In Chiang Mai, I became Sherlock Holmes for a few moments, searching for shoes and warm water.
202. | Changthong Heritage Park: Chiang Mai’s Green Museum
One Saturday in Chiang Mai, where I was walking among the trees, time stood still and perfection came very close to me.
203. | A quiet arrival
I have arrived many times. True arrivals happen in silence. They are not arrivals, but stations on a path that I continue on.
204. | Random guided walk on the concrete roads of Chiang Mai
Random guided walks on the concrete roads of Chiang Mai: temples, an old rice mill, beer, conversations and a day I didn’t want, I just lived through.
205. | Temple tour in Northern Thailand
Lots of things I’ve never seen before, great experiences and another serious realization on my Chiang Mai city and temple tour.
206. | The luck bracelet
I was waiting for him to speak and for his story to be told. A short story about how we found each other through a lucky/protection bracelet.
207. | The desire and the real life
I came closer to understanding the nature of desire. I no longer wanted to fight it. The decision became that simple for me.
208. | Why is it good for me to move?
The board is standing. The pawns are next to each other. In front of the rook, the knight and bishop are strong together. There is no checkmate. Let’s just enjoy the game.
209. | The oddities of Asian life
Asian apartments: puritanical bathroom, minimalist kitchen, empty fridge. Surprisingly, nothing is missing. Except for good chewing gum. And handkerchiefs.
213. | When online solutions don’t work
Sometimes even buying a bus ticket is an embarrassing amount of work. I enjoy these adventures.
214. | Hello, my old friend, conflict!
After five months of peace, the first conflict arrived. I did not send the answer. But my daughter set an example. I am proud of my daughters.
215. | 10 days barefoot 1: on the way to the forest church
8 hours of bends, freezing dawn, misunderstood tickets, expensive tuk-tuks. I took off my shoes at the temple gate so I wouldn’t see them for 10 days.
216. | 10 days barefoot 2: the arrival
Board bed. More minimalism. Offering and meditation. With these words I arrived at the temple.
217. | 10 days barefoot 3: the first full day
10:00 PM to bed, 5:00 AM to wake up. This was truly something unusual for me. The bed was very hard, so I expected that I wouldn’t be able to ...
218. | 10 days barefoot 4: come experience
Yesterday I went to bed before 10:00 PM as scheduled. The hardness of the bed woke me up every 20-30 minutes. My watch rang at five o'clock. I woke up, but I st ...
219. | 10 days barefoot 5: body pain and common prayers
My body hurts. I’m straightening up inside. Pain is not a punishment – maybe it’s training.
220. | 10 days barefoot 6: it works with few words
I felt pain. It hurts when the space that could take you forward becomes a playground.
221. | 10 days barefoot 7: why am I staying?
It doesn’t have to give anything. I’ll stay like this. The frame, the silence, the cold morning are gifts in themselves.
222. | 10 days barefoot 8: meditation experiences
I walk, I sit, I lie down. My body aches, my attention is scattered, but I start again. Here I am not learning to understand, but to practice.
223. | 10 days barefoot 9: breakthrough
This article is full of sentences that suggest uncertainty in its wording. But I have no uncertainty at all, I really felt what was happening today!
224. | 10 days barefoot 10: the last two full days
As the temple series neared its end, the picture came together. I was certain: I had spent a wonderful 10 days at Wat Pa Tam Wua.
225. | 10 days barefoot 11: the last hours
I left the temple, but it did not leave me.
226. | It wasn’t there for 10 days and yet it was there. Summary I.
I feel more and more strongly that I must give in order to receive. The church has given clear teaching on this.
227. | So, what happened here? Summary II.
I came to this Buddhist forest temple because I wasn’t happy here yet.
228. | Which book tells who I am?
I started writing this post 4 weeks ago. That’s when I first wrote the word Redesign. After 4 weeks, this word has two meanings.
229. | Mae Hongson
Google Maps, dogs, a river and a lost trail. The 900 meters from the church turned into a jungle hike. I arrived alive.
230. | Pai
Pai’s terrace gave me friends, a rat gave me patience, and a water bottle taught me to let go of what I didn’t want to let go of.
231. | A little lesson organized into a map
I don’t always like lists. This one really got me with its first point. It became an internal map. Sometimes it’s good for a hiker to look at the map.
232. | Two adventurous days around Pai
I loved spending the whole day observing my surroundings with effortless attention. It felt like my boat was swimming with the fish.
233. | Trapped by insurance
The first letter was honest. That’s why I didn’t send it. The second was polite. I sent this one. The answer is exactly what we don’t use paper for here in Asia.
234. | I May Be Wrong
The author may have written a book about doubt, which I read with open and hopeful eyes. Now I open my palms and let go of both doubt and hope.
235. | Laos
My Thai visa is expiring, so I’m choosing a new direction. Bus to Chiang Rai, then across the Mekong to Laos. I know almost nothing about it. Maybe that’s why it’s exciting.
236. | Chiang Rai
A blue church instead of a white one. And a clock tower that plays music that I will never forget.
237. | Houayxay
After 36 years, back in a socialist country. After buses, borders and a dozen small surprises. The beginning of a new country on the banks of the Mekong.
238. | Why here? Why not there?
I could be happy anywhere. Even in Hungary. But right now I’m testing this theory somewhere else.
239. | Officially fifty
I wanted to spend my 50th birthday alone. However, a Lao family firmly prevented this.
240. | People in Laos
In Laos, adults are more aloof, but the children’s openness took me back to the world of my own childhood for a short time.
241. | The Gibbon Experience I.
I think it was love at first sight. Ziplining over the jungle, tree houses in the canopy, the sound of gibbons at dawn. By the time you read this, I’ll be there.
242. | The Gibbon Experience II.
Moderate gibbon sightings, adrenaline over the jungle, a tree house in the sky. But the strongest rope was not the wire, but the one stretched between us.
243. | I don’t expect anything. That way I can find everything.
I expect nothing. I find everything. That’s how everything becomes within me from nothing.
244. | A system in the making: I started my book
If this book is finished and I ever have coffee with this writer again, maybe I will answer differently.
245. | The Gibbon Experience III.
This is my first post without writing a single letter. Let a short video do the talking instead of me.
246. | The nameless Chinese city and the motorbike
It was not a day I would repeat, but it was one I would never miss.
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