Becoming a Monk So me and my girlfriend went up to the north east of Thailand to see something that I have always wanted to witness. When she said to me " Do you want to come to Udonthani to see my friends boyfriend become a monk " I jumped at the chance. So after a 8 hour bus ride from Bangkok we arrived and was kindley made welcome at the monk to be's parents for 3 days. :wink::love:
After a good sleep on a hard mat we woke up at 6am and went to the Temple.
Day1.
Arrived at the temple and we all went inside, I sat on the mat and feeling a litttle weird, all eyes were on me and not on the monk to be, but I sat in silence and respected there religon. So it started with the prayers singing and wailing,which was comforting, I even but my hands together and waied at the budda image. After the food was given to the monks (giving arms) we got are share of food and sat and ate. Then I meet him , the monk to be. I wai, and said "sawadcup" He smiled and said " hello". Took a walk to the other temple and began cuting his hair. The Thai's had got all the equipment ready including a leaf which catches the hair as it falls. This leaf is kept by the family. The family first cuts the hair and even gave me the scissors to have a snip. Then the monks shave the hair and the eyebrows. I asked my girl why this is done and she says " so a monk does not need to rely on shampoo and is going back to a new birth ". Then he went into the temple and he got his 'angel dress' This garment is given before the orange robes as a symbol of a new begining. We went back to his house which is in the temple complex were he signs some paperwork. He then went to pray and we went home to eat again. A monk only eats once a day and this is in the morning. :wink:
Day2
This seemed a longer day with lots of praying and singing. Lots of speeches or prayers all in Thai so I really didn't understand much of what was happening. We then got up and walked to the other temple. Then they walk around the temple. The monk walks around the temple 3 times with all his family and friends chanting at the top of their voice with drums banging and flutes tweeting (it sounded like bad teckno). He stops at the main door then enters the temple after asking the head monk to enter the monk hood.
Then the monks dress him in his orange robes and is escorted to the front of the temple. He ask's pemisssion to enter the temple, goes inside and sits in front of the budda image. Then is surronded by the other monk's, they pray together. After a good 30 mins he comes outside and the party begins. He is now a monk and I'm in ore.
I have tryed to tell this story from what I know and what I saw but as you know Buddism is a complexed religon. So If I have left something important out I'm sorry. Also I added alot of photos I hope it isn't to many but every picture paints a thousand words.:wink:
13/14th September Yep yep... already looking for a new party for me and my friends....
Anyone heard of anything yet? Please? Yes....?
In London, Kent?
xxx
Party Pictures…. Did anyone go to the....
Wonkey Disco which was in Tunbridge Wells???
A month or two ago???
Did anyone get any pictures???
How about the one in Cockfosters one???
Like a month ago? Pictures???
How about the Digital hive vs Kamoflage in Stonebridge????
Last Saturday??? Any pictures??????????
Would be really nice to see peoples pictures???
Ohhh and does anyone have a copy of the flyers????
Peace
xxxxx
Need a room in leeds? Anyone need a room in leeds?
Us 3 music students are living in a nice house in the leeds hyde park area. proper nice house in a really good area, everything within a 5min walk. biggest room in the house aswell.
If anyone is interested or knows someone who might be p.m me innit.
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Popper Tolerance I'm a heavy popper user and i've builty a huge tolerance. the first few times the high was overwhelming like my head would explode, now it's practically boring.
How do i make it like it used to be? how long do i abstain?
Same goes for dxm, but to a much lesser extent.
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Italy blocks TV show on politicians’ drug use ROME (Reuters) - Italy's privacy authority on Tuesday suspended transmission of a satirical TV programme which found widespread drug use among politicians, but the decision only fanned the storm created by the show's report.
The programme, Le Iene, announced on Monday it had secretly tested 50 lower house deputies for illegal substances and found almost one third had taken drugs in the previous 36 hours, 12 of them testing positive for cannabis and four for cocaine.
The latest exploit by the Iene (the Hyenas), well known for pranks that embarrass public figures, was on the front page of most of Italy's newspapers on Tuesday, with politicians' reactions ranging from satisfaction to anger.
A reporter for the programme, pretending to be an interviewer for a non-existent satellite TV show, approached the deputies for their views on the 2007 draft budget, while a bogus make-up artist dabbed their brow between filming.
The cells collected by the dabbing were then tested for drugs. Le Iene is shown on Italia Uno, one of the three national channels owned by Mediaset, the broadcaster controlled by the family of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
The decision by the privacy authority to block the programme's transmission, scheduled for Tuesday evening, was taken because the tests had been conducted in a secret and illicit manner.
Several of the 50 deputies tested appealed for the programme to be aired, and right-wing member of the European Parliament, Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of wartime dictator Benito Mussolini, said the decision showed Italy was governed by an illiberal "regime".
"The censoring of a journalistic inquiry is a grave episode which I will take to the European Parliament, it's an absolute disgrace," she said.
Italo Bocchino of the conservative National Alliance party, who on Monday had threatened to sue the programme makers, said in view of the public outcry drug tests should be conducted on every member of parliament."That way the voters will know if the nation's representatives are people who break its drugs laws," he said. The AN, which is in Berlusconi's centre-right opposition, campaigns for drug use to be completely outlawed.
Liberal pressure groups said the Iene had unveiled the hypocrisy behind Italy's stringent drugs laws, a position backed by Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, leader of the Green party.
"Absurd laws have been passed which punish kids for smoking a joint, and then we find that among the highest political offices people are taking too much cocaine," he said.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-10T162046Z_01_L10576452_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ITALY-PARLIAMENT-DRUGS.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1
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