The old historic site “Gut Hochreute” is currently undergoing the probably most major changes since 100 years. While applying great and thorough care to the special preciousness of the building it is slowly becoming the new worldwide “Europe Center” for Diamond Way Buddhism. Just some of many many examples:

Above: The former main living room or fireplace room currently serves as a gompa and is used for common meditation twice a day. A history-filled family room evolved to a blessing-charged meditation place.

Above: The first floor in the villa was a big intersection-room and also partly served as a furniture storage. Today, a little more than a year later, it is used as one of several office spaces for project teams and meetings.

Above: The old dining room is the new dining room (besides the basement where we eat as well when being many). It has been cleaned up, painted and has more light now. And we love the flowers that can be found on every single table.

Above: A downward look from the villa’s staircase into the main hall shows the centrally positioned Tara statue now and freshly cleaned walls.

Beside the “outer” (visible) transformations of course the inner (non-visible) transformations are important as well. Here a “before and after” will exist as it does in the material world – and it counts for the worldwide Sangha as well just like for those on site in the EC: What new capabilities does the Europe Center stimulate in us? How is communication evolving in multi-national teams? What new values is internationality bringing into our Diamond Way work? And much more. We need all of this in order to root Diamond Way in the West, and our growth will need to reflect it – if we are in the EC or in our local center or at home. So the better we get, the better we’d better get…

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