Hello again my dearest friends.
Since the Americans are celebrating their “Labor day” today we get a long weekend to rest even tough we don’t really understand what they are all celebrating about… I guess they are just celebrating a chance to go shopping again (now that wasn’t nice of me, sorry).
We are starting to settle down, bit by bit. We have started cleaning that apartment we plan to move into in a few days, and I’m sorry to say it is quite dirty, especially the kitchen. We bought a used car and we hope to actually get it tomorrow. Apart from that, we haven’t really done allot of other stuff. We go to the hospital once a week so I can get my drug and than we are off and don’t need to be there until next week, when I get it again, and so on. So we have plenty off time in between to do things! The problem is we kind of feel lost here in the huge city with all the numerous options, there is a million sitting groups and workshops and teachers… Too much! Everything seems too big – America is America, even in the Dharma it offers. You have so much possibilities we end up doing nothing…
Well, I hope that would change the minute we will have our own home in the city and we could start going to all the sitting groups and find the one or two we like the most. Right now we live in a suburb that is an hour drive from the city. We really want a few days of peace and quite in the nature and we miss Israel and Ein-Dor. Attachments, I see, very strong tough. We did make contact with Abbayagiri monastery and may go up there for a few days. That would be amazing I’m sure. Meeting Ajahn Amaro and his co-abbot Ajahn Pasanno, which is less known but equally wonderful we hear, is something we wanted to do for a long time. Hopefully we will get the chance soon. So that is it for now I think. I’m feeling very good with this new drug and that is maybe the most important thing right now.
Please send some word so we can keep in touch.
Love, Noa and Dror
