Dear Dam Chhoi Lama, Meeting you in Italy in that weird spring of 2001 has changed my life forever. Probably you do not know that and being a Buddhist monk (even though a very worldly one) you would certainly deny it and make a joke about your own insignificance and say that it was all [...]
… I have space to listen what is going on inside me. Basically, I feel always alive when I am in a “flow” of doing something, not necessarily something I find enjoyable as such but something that I do well. I do not particularly enjoy all the tasks that my job consists of, but when [...]
When my girlfriend and I were together for two months she had to undergo heart surgery because of a birth defect – a problem with the mitral valve that was not opening and closing correctly. Her problems were severe. She could not bear even the smallest physical strain, she had sometimes strong pain or a [...]
…impossible! My grandfather I remember always in the garden of our family mansion. So what would I say if I had the chance to be with him once more in the garden? Somehow I have the feeling we wouldn’t talk that much. We’d just plant, weed, water – side by side. Once in a while [...]
About Christmas as such I do not have any reservations. There’s only one negative thought I connect with Christmas and this is the burial of my grandfather, nine years ago shortly before the Christmas of 1996. He had died very suddenly of a condition later described as heart insufficiency (I don’t know if that’s the [...]
