Monday evening in the EC – the clearing out weekend is at last over.. We had almost 30 helpers from the closest centers for the weekend cleaning, when in an exceptionally short time people were gathered to make a grand purification.. As previously mentioned, all the furniture was moved from the garages in the small house to the attic in the old villa, and giant piles of garbage are still wainting to be brought away in the courtyard of the center. While the cleaning continued, it became even more unbelievable how much space we actually have here.. On Saturday evening we had some lovely guests from the Schwarzenberg center, who came both to support us and get some inspiration, which Caty did in the most delicate and inspiring way, by a means of questions and answers. And the amazing cakes brought by Schwarzenberg Sangha, where enjoyed tightly seated in the beautiful winter garden on the Sunday afternoon, watching the most beautiful scenary of sunshowered Alps and the radiant smiles of all our friends.

During the weekend we had also quite a few meetings, beginning the one with the five architects from Austria and Germany on Saturday morning. They all have been given a transmission from Caty on what has already been discussed with the previous architect from Munich, but formost the main function of the EC was underlined. It is definitely going to be the main seat of the Diamondway Buddhism in the West, just as Thsurpu and Rumtek used to be the main seats in the East. Then there was a meeting of the Summer Course Host service, whose main task is to take care of the accomodation of the special guests invited to the course by Lama Ole. And last but not least a usual EC team meeting on late Sunday evening, with issues on the next week and weekend, house cleaning matters, cooking for the weekends and in general, rent and helpers. The most inspiring thing to announce is that we are sending a letter on DWBN for all the people interested in helping with the EC matters, and hence we start making actual communication, with Gergo taking best care of making it possible through the key people of all the countries.

More happenings with new inspiring people even more often can only be possible because of space being information.. One of them was an open hearted man, willing to get a housekeeper‘s place before we might put an advertisment looking for a new one.. And then this lady, professional church painter, who took buddhist refuge 15 years ago, but could not remember from who, and who offered to do some painting works free of charge.

Our lama calls us from time to time and his satisfaction of the way things are done here gives us even more driving force to fullfil what is so important to us all.

Yours,
EC team

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