Today ours was a world weekly meeting
First Emil arrived on time. He is a
Hungarian-Polish monk who set up a Hare Krishna restaurant in Istanbul. He brought a big tray, of a kind of
very consistent sweet he had made to feed all of the troops. There we were
eating sweets and time passed and we really didn’t know who would be coming to
the meeting. An hour later, Jöntürk arrived with a bunch of friends, an African-Japanese girl, two wandering Dutch
kids, two Iranians (one of them a refugee) and a very nice Mexican. Like
Eduardo said, such an open and multi-cultural environment was a sign of the new
world being born.
There we were talking for a long time and we
didn’t really know if doing ceremonies was timely because there was no context.
But finally, a good atmosphere of trust was created and everyone seemed willing
to do the Well-Being ceremony when Jöntürk proposed it. Since there were so
many different nationalities we didn’t know in which language to do it, until
we saw the best idea was to do it in English, with simultaneous translation in
farsi.
Since the experience was very good, we noticed
people were thankfully surprised and it occurred easily in the affection among
us. We believed that some would have stayed longer but it seemed that they
already had other plans and they all left except for Emil who stayed for a good
while talking about deep things with us.
One of the Iranians said he could help
translating the book of the Message and introduce us to other Iranians living
in different places in Turkey.
We agreed to continue talking to some of the people.
A big hug,
Eduardo,
Judith and Alvaro.
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