Report of day 2 and 3 of August

On Friday morning, Isabel and Judith left and Csefko came back from Ankara and that produced another change in the energy and atmosphere of the group.

When Eduardo came back from the police office with his permit of residence, we had some pasta together and then decided to have a kind of touristic afternoon doing some shopping in the European side.

The hot and humid weather of July straightly pushed us to hurry up our commissions and to look for shelter in Tocapi Park.  We sat in a very nice café settled in a pleasant panoramic position on top of the hill and started to interchange about our Ascesis processes and  our images on the process in Turkey. Since Husseyin works just near-by, as soon as he finished, he joined us enriching our conversation by adding the “Turkish” point of view.

When we got back it was dinner time, so we picked up Eduardo and Katibe who was paying her daily visit and went to our loved tandoori  place .   

We finished our day at Jonturk’s place playing with his cats and sharing a very familiar atmosphere.

The feeling of the day wasn’t as energetic as the previous ones when a lot of us where there but was more dedicated to capturing the Turkish life style and to find out how life could be if we were living here.

Saturday at two o’clock Eduardo left as well. In the morning I could share his company and inspiration which helped me a lot to move images and focus on the Sense and meaning of this mission.

Csefko and Julie joined us for lunch and then we all went to the port to say by-by to our friend and to dedicated a ceremony of death to Gizi, Attila’s mum, who passed away that morning.

Katibe came to pick us up in the afternoon because she wanted to show us a place in Uskudar where we could have a very good view of the city from the top. Actually it wasn’t so pleasant for me because we had to walk a lot under the sun to get there but it was nice to appreciate her good intention and hospitality!

When we got back to Kadikoy, we met with Tiziana, an Italian girl who came to Isthambul on holiday and contacted me to visit the Salita.

Huseyin and Julie arrived very soon; a little bit later Meral and then Tamer who was at the Salita only once accompanied by Canan and Sibel, a friend of him, who was there for the first time.

Huseyin read the Service and Well-Being in Turkish and then we divided again into small groups of interchange.  This is a very nice and pretty new “fenomena” that we are living here…. This beginning of new friendships among Turkish people and this intention to ask us little questions about the book and Silo.

Huseyin then proposed to do another ceremony of death together to accompany Gizi and just after that Meral and Sibel left together because they were going in the same direction. It was a very pleasant evening because even the new friends seemed to have felt much at ease and likely to share our company.

I really like these “international” meetings where you can hear people speaking in different languages to each other and give you this non-doubtable impression that the Message has no borders or limits. It is very easy to catch that everybody can feel the atmosphere and this nice way of treating each other.

We finished our evening with a nice walk towards Moda with Katibe, Tamer and Tiziana. We had an ice-cream together and agreed to meet the following day.