K-Lo Retro Part IX: Cositas De Dhamma Neru

From 13 June 2009]

Vipassana church bells: a Burmese hand gong

Dhamma Neru, as most of y’all know, is the meditation center in Barcelona where I was living when I arrived in Spain.

In my three months meditating there and volunteering in the kitchen and the garden, I only took out my camera twice: once in March, and once in April.

Both times, what drew my attention the most were las cositas — the little things.

Outside the meditation hall

Baked bananas with coconut and chopped hazlenuts. So good.

The real joy of cooking: feeding 80 people who are facing their minds.

Non-harming + pest control = "Escoba Hormigas": Ant Broom.

Every morning for breakfast Natalia made herself some version of this lovely quinoa.