To live simple life, is really living it.
There are time in a man life, that a he knows that a change must comes.
It's like a gnawing feeling in the guts, doubts before falling a sleep, disturbing thoughts.
I was really trying to return to the high pace of life. Life we are all experiencing it. High school -> Army (for the Israelis one :)) -> University -> Work -> Marriage -> Children...
I took a break, went to South America, and was looking forward of working at Sela, and resume the race.
But something has been stopping me, the same feeling in the guts.
I went to speak to someone, who told me that I need to let my mind slow down, give him quite. it was during a memorable weekend which I close down my cellphone, I was out of the computer and was set to a beautiful point in the south Golan area. And for the first time of my life I did meditations. it was really an amazing experience for me.
It was really surprising that only 2 weeks after I was on a plane to India.
I took it as a sign, something is not working in my life, it had begone in my Army service and not changed even when after I left it. I need to find peace of mind.
When my friend Yaniv told me he is going back to India, I knew it just what I needed to do aswell.
it was really surprising that only 1 week after he told me that, we were together on a night train from Mumbai to Hampi.
My first time on India! man the stories I've heard, about people who couldn't heed the dirt, pollution and mass of people and went back to where everything make sense.
I was fascinated, I was feeling with all my senses and it was threatening to gauge me like the smell of urine in Victoria's train station in Mumbai.
We had 3 weeks together, and the privilege to take things slow. We everyday to see the sunset of varius special points. The area around Hampi looks primordial mainly because of the huge enigmatic boulders at where thrown all around, a river is intersecting the landscape like a golden snake. Hampi is fairly touristic place, once a mighty city, a capital to the Vijayanagara empire.
Life in Hampi, was easy for us, wake up, reading books, playing chess, eating food, running away from the heat, going to somewhere nice like the Monkey temple of Anoman, the "lake" (a huge reservoir water created by a damn), meeting with friends, playing backgammon, eating some more.
After a week like that we found ourselves on the beaches of Goa, on the touristic focus point of Palolem, a gem of a coast, attracting people from around the world.
The main difference we found out is that when it is hot, we can just go into the sea, and feel the relieve.
Except that we still maintained a pretty leisurely pace.
Palolem is not the place to lose yourself to parties as it was, police is keeping the level of noise well at bay, which gave way for headphones parties, a bizarre version of a quite party.
After again a week of really doing nothing we got into a local train to the city of Gokarn. Gokarn has many beautiful quite beaches and we soon found ourselves well in love in Ohm Beach. Rare, quite and very social beach. without to much to do after 20:00 you can really get to know some people, and soon I found myself attached to Swedish, Canadian and French people all around us.
Ohm beach was a place to really keep you pace down, think of what you want to do with you life, and it's so quite that only some cows and parties of Indians are what keep it from being really deserted.
Gokarn itself gave me my local experience for this part of the trip, for holding a Shiva festival.
Me and Yaniv got back to Mumbai where we spend our last day together on India.
I got recruited into a Bollywood TV series, to play a foreigner.
Yaniv flew to Israel, and I got to Pune.
Pune, this is where my work is about to be. I got there a week earlier. 2 main reasons why I got that early, I didn't want to spend time on traveling far when I had only one week.
Second, friends told me about the Osho Meditation Resort and I wanted to check it out.
So I got welcomed by the Sela people in Pune, and got a nice apartment, laptop and an internet connection!
Osho is quite a a character, There are people who worship him and there are people of loath him, I choose not to take a stand on this debate, I neither worship him nor loath him.
But you can't stay natural to the beauty of the complex that he had versioned and build in Pune. The main Auditorium is a black pyramid, and you need to cross a bridge to get in.
While you are inside the complex you must wear a maroon robes. It makes a feeling of unity between everyone. Only during a special time each day when a meeting is called than you are dressed in a white robe, at first I felt reluctant, it feels cumbersome to change your robe for the meeting but when everybody came with there shining white robes, it felt like friday evening or an Holiday.
I've stayed for a few days at the complex, trying to recieve as much as I can from this unique place.
This is the end of Part 1.
More of my Indian pictures.
Osho Meditation Resort