Auto Stop around China - Part 5 - Seven years in Tibet

04.07.2010

Night is calm....Sometimes I wake up from butterfly wings, that are hitting the window or snoring of old dog or from a cold weather.

In the morning I wake up with sun, that gently wakes me up. Feel like sun gave you a morning kiss and told you so sweet - wake up, new day is waiting for you... Monks are still sleeping, only one of them is also slowly waking up. It is 5am, I go out to feel the morning cool weather...Dew is shining in the sun on the grass and I get on my knees to wash my face in it. Everything is in a nice morning fog and colors of the nature are so amazing at this moment. You feel that everything around you wakes up. From high beneath me I hear sounds of prayers...first monks are already praying, and sounds of ritual instruments... These sounds bring to this morning mystical feeling...Suddenly I hear the sound, that is the bell of one of the monks mobile phones. But this melody I have heared somewhere...And after a moment I remember that it is so similar to the one from movie Seven years in Tibet, the one that played in a music box. Melody sounds again and again...I feel that this moment have stopped here...There is no time, no plans, no worries...you just live here in this moment. In such moment you understand that the real beauty is not the one seen by eyes, but the one that is felt inside you...and at this moment there is the feeling that you only feel, that all your body, each element of it, is totally free, here in this beautiful morning, with amazing sounds and mystic atmosphere...You feel smell of the grass, you sense the gentle wind and sun, you become as one with the nature...you look on mighty mountains that show you how small you are in this world and the same how connected with everything around, how small you and how important for the symphony of nature...

I greet the monk, that just came out. He offers me to have a morning bath... cold water, icy cold, and outside I am having a bath... but i don't feel cold....i don't know why... After I step inside the kitchen where already the fire is made, and i feel the warmth of it...We start cooking the breakfast. And I have something I haven't ate before in my entire life. First in your bowl is put a butter, then boiling water...So first you need to drink part of the water, not touching the butter that is melting...so I was training how to do it...When I did it, in the same bowl is put something like flour and mixed with water and butter and some nuts added to it. You eat all of it with your hands and drink warm Tibetan tea...That was a great breakfast.

After breakfast as always comes time to say goodbye...It is hard because again some amazing connection brought me together with these monks. But I put my heavy bag on my shoulders and start to follow down the small path...Monks are sitting outside and looking how I go away. When I reach the bottom of the hill, I look back again and still see them on the top looking down on me..I wave them and see how the wave back to me...Everything like at the end of movie Seven years in Tibet...Almost everything as when I turn to go forward to find a road and hitchhike I almost fell from the path , as I was to close to side of the path... But I put myself together and continue my way.

After few minutes I am on the road again. A small rain is crying and there are no cars on the road...But I am not afraid...I know that everything is gonna be alright.