JULY 2011- a report !

WHAT HAS BEEN REALISED - CHANGED THANKS TO YOUR HELP SINCE 2010

FOOD FOR THE ANIMALS- CATS AND DOGS The animals are well fed and THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! :: WOUAHH MIAAAOUU ...

IMMERSED WATER PUMP FOR THE DRILLING Now the drill hole is in service thanks to the new installation and the good news is that although the water was revealed extremly salty, after some rest time in the reservoir where it could mix with rain water and take oxygen and sun ray, the water is now totally usable for watering .. Additionnaly i hope to install water plants like waterlilly to clean the water and provide shade.

 CD- DVD READER Thus to enable us wathching movies during the evening programs ... :o)

CLOTHE FOR SHADING For the kitchen.. not yet installed thus the kitchen is now as hot as a sauna but the clothe will be put on the roof as soon as possible !

NEW KITCHEN MATERIAL  which will be kept for purification practices (Neti- Kunjal- Shankaprakshalana- )

 POTTERY- COOL WATER RESERVOIR beautifully decorated with a tap on the bottom, natural and healthy way to have cool water without fridge even in hot weather

COMFREY (Symphytum) This plant is a treasure for all gardens, thousands of uses.. edible, medicinal plant, companion planting, activates the compost process, and lot more ...

BIG POTTERY which will be used as "fridge": after having digged a profound hole in the soil the pottery will be put into it and keep food fresh ....

BOOKS TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE EVERYTHING WE NEED BY OURSELVES like soap, washing liquid, paint, small constructions like solar oven, solar  fridge and lot more .. :o))

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 IN PROJECT - 

  BUILDING OF THE GUEST HUT This simple hut is intended to our guest teachers coming to give seminars. Present project is a hut made out of wooden trunks from the forest, bamboo and other light material.As the wood has to be cut in January the construction is planned not before summer 2012..

FRUIT FOREST this is a project close to my heart: getting inspiration from Nature, it consists in creating a forest where all plants would be either edible ( fruits, leaves, roots..) or enrich the soil ( bringing nitrogene for ex) or be a companion for other plants ( protecting from instects or pests, bringing shade, cutting wind..) A fascinating study to be shared and hopefully ending in the realisation of a small fruit  forest in the Moon garden within the coming years... :o)

to all of YOU thank you deeply for your active support

OM SHANTI

 OFFICIAL OPENING .. THE EXPERIENCE

This official opening celebration has been a very interesting .. yogic experience !

Aiming at informing the local responsible people like the Prefect, mayors and other related official people about the existence of the farm and what it is about, we had organised a very nice celebration in Durga - our big yoga shala- on this saturday 25 june. 

After 2 months preparation, with lots of work and energy ultimately Durga was ready and ..  beautiful.  

Some friends and the local mayor arrived early .. with them we waited for the other people, specially the "Kaymakam" ( Prefect)

But nothing will happen...

We shall wait about 1 and half hour... and ultimately we shall learn that the Kaymakam is somewhere else in another program with no intention at all to come here to the Yunus Emre farm...

Everyone here is astounded ... and I am very dissapointed

Big big disillusion !

We shall neither receive any phone call nor other kind of message.. nothing.

Because it would have been unrespectful to the "Kaymakam" none of the other official people will come

The celebration will still take place with the present friends, neighbors, relations... the atmosphere will be very special for sure...

And I will definitely feel on that occasion how big is the gap between our cultures ... Turkish culture ... European, French culture ...

Because actually for the Turks it is almost .. normal, or lets say, it is not exceptionnal at all.

Turks always say:

"yes we shall come.. yes we shall do this and that" ..

but actually we should understand

"we cannot say "no" but most probably we wont come.. we wont do this or that"

We need the "culture- dictionnary" to understand each other

And thus ACCEPT each other with our differences...

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Additionnaly this experience will offer me the opportunity to see how big were the expectations !

Feeling dissapointment or disillusion means that we had expectations.

Most of the time we are not aware of our expectations.

Only when they are not fulfilled then we become AWARE.. because we suffer..

So such occasions offer the opportunity of becoming  AWARE of unknown expectation, and thus in the yogic way, WATCHING the inner process of emotions related to the event.

Then with the help of yoga watching the emotions which are "only" e-motion.. energy in motion... come to the surface and dissolve..

Then true contentement may take place. SANTOSH'.

Santosh is this inner peaceful joy, inner contentement which is here, whatever happens, whatever the experience, because with Santosh, we know that behind each experience, be it "pleasant" or "unpleasant", there is a teaching, there is a lesson, and actually the experience is in itself a step to improve ourselves.

At this stage we can thus THANK LIFE for having offered us such an opportunity to learn, and to improve.

The Sufis say that if something we expect, something we deeply wish doest not happen, it is BETTER so, both for ourselves and for others.

If one manages to LIVE this truely from inside, then one is in SANTOSHA the true  CONTENTEMENT which generates inner PEACE.

Om shanti