India first week: Adapting our body and mind

We have already spent one week in this huge country, trying to understand this amazing culture, trying to taste every meal and trying to hug these special indian people...

After we step for the very first time India, we realised that at the end of June is very difficult to keep your body whithout swear for more than one minute in Delhi. 42 degrees and 50% of humidity was our welcome party in India.

Chaman picked us up from Indira Gandhi airport to the heart of Delhi ( Shadipur). During this one hour journey we could prove the great skills which Indian drivers move across Delhi's roads. We think they were born with the essencial capacity of escape from the traffic accidents using their favourite car complement: the horn. For us it was amazing to read in some tracks and ricksos the sentence... Please blow horn! For them the horn is like a blessing but for us the Delhi horns were like our first great teaching of patient.

We spent our first three night in Delhi under two funs in Wahoe comune sharing thoughts, chats and music with people from New Zealand, England and India.

Here we met with the first NGO of our trip and we could realised how much pure activities they are doing for children and women in different parts of India. Wahoe commune is a humble local NGO which is really committed to help their people in the best way. 

We are very grateful with Chaman, Surender and Mehar to give us the possibility to be involved during three days in this beautiful project.

Wahoe commune has a huge Ahimsa spirit!

Alok: The best Old Delhi guide

We also had the lucky chance to meet a great Indian musician called Rakesh who introduced us very good friend of him, Alok. This Rakesh's friend was our particular guide in Old Delhi. Thanks to him we could live and feel the real Delhi daily life and we could try many different Indian meals like chaat, dosa, coconut chutney, sambar, kofta malai,paneer, Gulag jamun,etc... The most exciting thing of this is that we didn't get sick after eating everything in the streets of old Delhi...Our stomachs also have a very good Ahimsa spirit!

The last day in Delhi we met with Oscar, a spanish-tibetan guy who took us to a gastronomic walk across a Tibetan neighbourhood called Majnu Ka Tila.

After three intense and very hot days in the capital we took a bus to Manali. At the beginning the bus company told us that our journey would take 8 or 9 hours but at the end we spent 15 long and moved hours inside that bus... In India you know when you take a bus but you never know when you will leave it...

Once we arrived to Manali we could see such a different view comparing with Delhi. In this mountain city there are amazing green mountains, very clean rivers, deep huge forests and plenty of marihuana wild plants. Manali gave us back the oxigen we had lost in Delhi.

Four km away from Manali we visited a nice small town called Vashisht where you can take a thermal bath in a hinduism temple and you can do a comfy trekking to a sacred waterfalls.

Tonight we are traveling to Ladakh to join the 33th Kalachakra with His Holiness Dalai Lama.

After our first adapting week in India we are ready to discover the Buddhist part of this incredible country.

Here you have some picture of this first India week.

Namaste 

Surender: The best cook in Wahoe Commune

Chaman

traditional house in Manali

first jam in Manali

A journey to Ahimsa is starting to walk... tomorrow!

We are almost there!!!!!

After 4 months of readings, arrangement, farewells and training, the day of our departure has come!Tomorrow we are flying from Istanbul to Delhi, making a stopover in United Arab Emirates.

Yesterday we finished our backpack staffs and we realised that its possible to carry in a 60 liters backpack the two percent of the things that you have been keeping and accumulating during long time in some hungry wardrobes located in some hungry flats settled in some angry cities... So... Now we believe we are able to do more things because we are more light...Maybe now we can experience directly the tyler durdens quote: it's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything...

In our backpack process we were asking many times this question...Do we really need everyting we are owning? Definitly not... We are starting to notice in our mind the real freedom that it comes when you realize that everything you really need you can carry on your own back.
Now we feel free of the fear related with this crazy thought which says: you are what you have... It was not easy to escape of this consumerist society's belief but at the end we did it (or at least we are trying to do it)...
Now we are starting to be what we feel not what we have

Every body should be careful with this because the things you own end up owning you... Would you like to be free??? Try to pack everything you have in a backpack.... It is an amazing therapy.

Tomorrow we are taking a plane to our particular path but the journey to Ahimsa actually started last month... During june we have been traveling around this amazing country called Turkey which I love it as much as my own country. Turkey has a lot of things to discover ( amazing places, meals, history,etc) but in my opinion the best of this country is for sure the Turkish people!!!!  We are leaving here very good friends and one amazing family. Thanks to support us in this period of our life!!!! Çok teşekkür ederim!!!!

Tomorrow we will post here the first song which Elif has created for this Journey to Ahimsa... We hope you can join us with your good wishes from all around the world.

Peace, love, compassion and music !!!!

Master degree in the University of life

We’ve started this february with very great news: We’ve already bought our ticket to India! Yes! Now there is no choice. We are flying from Istanbul to New Delhi in jully 25^th. So only five months left to our journey to Ahimsa.

From our operations center in Istanbul, we continue with our trip planning. We are searching very carefully about:

-  visas we are going to need,

- places where we are going to be lost,

- musicians who we are going to colaborate with,

- transport we are going to take

-meals we are going to taste

- etc

For sure is going to be a very interesting trip.

We are spending a lot of hours in these staffs but the thing that it’s taking more time to prepare is our Ahimsa philosophy, because we really want to have a clear porpuse of our Asia trip. 

We are not doing this project because we need a holiday time or because we want to forget our routine life for a while. We want to do this trip thinking that it is like a master degree we have to pass in the University of life.

We know that is not going to be easy at all because we will have to pass hard subjects like “how to manage our ego” “self-knowledge”, tolerance” “compassion”, “Inconditional love” “volunteering”,etc

We want to be a very good students therefore we are readding a lot of books related with asian religions and spirituals philosophies. We are also watching inspiring documentaries and movies which could help us to be even more motivated we already be. If somebody has any suggestion about books, articules, videos or something related with hope, motivation and world peace, please don’t hesitate to tell us. We will apreciate a lot your help.

This week we wanted to introduce you a person who perfectly could be one of our teachers in this master degree we are going to take in Asia.

His name is Narayanan Krishna, he was born in India and the porpuse of his life is to feed physically ( with food) and spiritually (with love and compassion) homeless and desabled from his home town who doesn’t have anything because they were born in a Indian cast called “untouchables”,

During next weeks we will continue reporting more details about our “subjects” and teachers of this particular master degree.

Namaste

volunteering made in Ahimsa

Do you think it’s necesary to become a member of an NGO to change the world ? Do you really think you can change the other people’s life  giving 9 euros per month ? Is money the best way to help others?

We could answer these 3 questions with a humble and simple NO.

For a long time we've been watching in mass media’s news disasters, wars, material poverty and environmental destruction.

With this background we might think: The final apocalypse is coming! There is no chance for this world full of hatred, envy , greed and violence! We will desapper!

When we watch this kind of things on TV, suddenly inside us awakes something similar to a feeling :  Our compassionate nature. Besides that in our brain appears something like neon signs where we can read " I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ."

In this moment we start working on this sentence and we write in Google ( or even better in the search engine Ecosia ) " what can I do to change the world " ... in 0.56 seconds appears 136 million results .

We start to read different information and we found a thousands of NGOs which wants you to join them as a membership (providing an amount of 9 , 12 or 15 euros per month). We think maybe they are the solution to the world problems because They all say to you “With your money we will change the world ". But we don’t have to much money so we continue searching…

Then the word " voluntary " appears with the next phrase "give your effort to change the world ". We could think: This is what I want!  But unfortunately , when we had decided to volunteer in Asia , Africa or South America, the NGOs that manage this volunteering invite us to collaborate with our effort , passion and hard work but also with our  financial contribution that , in our humble opinion, is too much.

At the end of our search , we gave up because we were tired to read in different websites that saying “if you want to help to change the world you have to pay”.  We start thinking that NGOs are like a business and we feel disappointed. We reach to the next conclusion: We can’t help the world if we only have a good motivation… apparently we need money if we want to help this world.

So what can we do to change the world if we don’t want to help with money?

According to our philosophy Ahimsa ,there are many things we can do , but first we should think deeply about this question:

Do I have to fight to change the world or I have to change myself to see the change in the world?

In this sense , we find a quote that many people attributed to Gandhi , which could help us to answer this question.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

On our way to Ahimsa we want to be our own NGO. We strongly believe that a small action made by a person can help many people and many small actions made ​​by many individual NGOs ( each of us ) , can create a big change in this wonderful world .

Let's start helping with small actions with ourselves, with our family, our neighbors , etc.  Let’s start to fill the world with small actions to help this planet be a better place to live.

We want to clarify that we are not against NGOs and we are sure that many of them are doing a wonderful job , nevertheless we think they are not the only way to help.

To finish this post, we want to share a video that could show us how a small action of kindness can change our lives and the other people’s lives.

Ahimsa Spirit!

How to make your dreams come true

Today , January 17th 2014 , our cyber- spiritual exchange  place starts running!

In this blog we will write every detail related with our project-trip where we want to reflect and comment some aspects related with spiritual side of human beings . 

This first blog post serves as a kick-off of an idea , full of good intentions , which has gradually been transformed into reality.

It will be an adventure narrated in the first person, where we will try to capture and share an experience of personal development and  spiritual discovery with all the people who want to join us. 

This Asian trip it will take us to a place called Ahimsa located (according to Google maps) in the depths of our hearts.

I hope you can enjoy this blog and we may be able to feel your support by your comments , thoughts and questions related with this spiritual adventure.

Today is the day when our dreams started to come true...

When we started walking?

We can't confirm yet, but it appears that by the end of June 2014 we will be flying to our first destination ... Ladack-India!

NAMASTE!