Today I submitted an application to be a live-in volunteer/student at the Tibetan Buddhist Institute on the Sunshine Coast, Chenrezig.
Check it: http://www.chenrezig.com.au
I'm so excited!
I hope I'm worthy enough for them to take me in. I hope that they can take me.
I've been individually learning Tibetan Buddhist teachings, fairly non-commitally over the last few years. It would be an honour to strengthen my knowledge, my practise, my experience.
Volunteers generally stay between one and three months, volunteering 30 hours a week in exchange for food, board and access to the Institute's education programs.
I'm torn between volunteering in the kitchen, or doing ground maintenance. My pale skin says kitchen. My body says physical labour. Who knows? Maybe I'll finally learn how to use more spices in the kitchen than just mint, coriander, cummin, garam masala, tumeric, and parsley. I do fancy a bit of Buddhist vego kitchen love. Oh, and sometimes oregano. But that's it. There's a whole other world of spices out there waiting for me to use.
Hopefully I'll get in for December, than leave a the end of the month to work in Sam's bar at Woodford... do heaps of art, dance like a mad woman, make love under the stars.
This is my plan.
And then! 2008 is bringing crazy travel plans. Summersong music camp in Mullumbimby in January, life modelling and sleeping on floors (and hopefully nice people's beds) in Mebourne in Feb, then Tassie with my woofing mother Kate in March, then Grafton in April to make a harp and learn who to play it with a master harpist, and then o/s... somewhere... haven't figured that last part out yet. I don't care, as long as I keep moving, keep moving.
I am looking forward to travel, learning how to read music and play it, doing suzuki theatre, being young and free.
I feel like I'm on the edge of my life. The balance is tipping.
Check it: http://www.chenrezig.com.au
I'm so excited!
I hope I'm worthy enough for them to take me in. I hope that they can take me.
I've been individually learning Tibetan Buddhist teachings, fairly non-commitally over the last few years. It would be an honour to strengthen my knowledge, my practise, my experience.
Volunteers generally stay between one and three months, volunteering 30 hours a week in exchange for food, board and access to the Institute's education programs.
I'm torn between volunteering in the kitchen, or doing ground maintenance. My pale skin says kitchen. My body says physical labour. Who knows? Maybe I'll finally learn how to use more spices in the kitchen than just mint, coriander, cummin, garam masala, tumeric, and parsley. I do fancy a bit of Buddhist vego kitchen love. Oh, and sometimes oregano. But that's it. There's a whole other world of spices out there waiting for me to use.
Hopefully I'll get in for December, than leave a the end of the month to work in Sam's bar at Woodford... do heaps of art, dance like a mad woman, make love under the stars.
This is my plan.
And then! 2008 is bringing crazy travel plans. Summersong music camp in Mullumbimby in January, life modelling and sleeping on floors (and hopefully nice people's beds) in Mebourne in Feb, then Tassie with my woofing mother Kate in March, then Grafton in April to make a harp and learn who to play it with a master harpist, and then o/s... somewhere... haven't figured that last part out yet. I don't care, as long as I keep moving, keep moving.
I am looking forward to travel, learning how to read music and play it, doing suzuki theatre, being young and free.
I feel like I'm on the edge of my life. The balance is tipping.
How do you set this stuff up?
Not that I'm able to do any of it.
(After I finish at QUT I want to pursue a Taiko apprenticeship which means another year or two spoken for!)
Good to see things starting to move, but then by the sound of it, you're making that for yourself.