EC Blog News & Reports

One of the EC Sangha’s annual holiday traditions is taking a cosy evening to sign the EC New Year’s cards together. They are sent to each of the over 600 Diamond Way Buddhist Centers as well as several teachers and friends worldwide – that makes it just about 800 cards to sign.

We left a blank space on the cards for a good reason. Finally arriving home after a delayed journey back from South America, Lama Ole and Caty decided to ignore their jetlag and diligently signed every single one of the cards. While signing, they shared some stories from Lama Ole’s recent tour through North and South America.

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With the peak of the moreEC campaign on New Year’s eve getting closer, even the kids are ”helping” to raise some money for the new building – with a little help from their friends (and parents). So now you can purchase lots of yummy christmas cookies in EC design – and colourful meditation huts with gummi bear meditators inside.

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Picking up on one of our blog traditions, here’s today’s sunrise we just had to share with you…

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Last weekend about 150 friends came together to listen to Gabi Volenko, Christiane Ewerbeck and Tommy Bogs share their insights about traveling with their Buddhist teachers. All have been Buddhists for more than 25 years and have been on the road again and again.

Even though the EC was still without snow, we all tucked in expecting fireside stories about how it was to travel with Lama Ole so many years ago. All three of course shared stories from that time and also gave us a frame about how the times and people’s mindset were three decades ago.

But it was not only stories about their travels. They also explained why we travel with our teachers. We don’t strive for exciting holidays. We try to get to know our mind and therefore we leave our habits and concepts behind to learn from our teacher in a multitude of situations. Both Gabi and Tommy gave lectures and answered questions pointing out in detail the benefit of traveling with our Lamas.

We also had a moreEC Karaoke night in the Baucafé. It was a great evening featuring celebrities from all around the globe. We enjoyed Australian rappers, a German-Lithuanian AC/DC interpretation and even “Take That” made a spontaneous appearance.

And: Madonna ist eine Berlinerin!      – by Michael Gellings

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