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PIPO

Journey #1 - Egypt
Fri Dec 31, 2010
Egypt was my first journey as a Buddhist monk to spread the knowledge of meditation practice. A three-day mindfulness and meditation retreat was organized in a Yoga studio Alexandria, Egypt.

Journey #2 – Jordan
Sun Jan 2, 2011
I was about to fly back to Thailand but I got an invitation from the Thai embassy in Amman for the 2011 new year blessing.

Journey #3 – Belgium
Sun May 8, 2011
Meditation can be a free medicine that cures different problems. One of them is insomnia.

Journey #4 – Peru
Sat May 28, 2011
My third journey was to visit Peru for the first time. It was a very long travel. I stayed there for two weeks and facilitated meditation workshops for about 700 people.

Journey #5 – The Philippines
Sun Oct 30, 2011
I visited Lanao del Norte in Mindanao, the Philippines for the 7th Peace Village organized by the ministry of education in October 2011.

Journey #6 – Bolivia
Mon May 14, 2012
Bolivia was the second country I visited in South America. But at 4,000 meters above the sea level, I suffered from altitude sickness in La Paz where meditation sessions in universities were organized. We also went to Cochabamba for a meditation retreat.

Journey #7 – Colombia
Fri May 18, 2012
During the first Peace Revolution Change the World Tour in South America, we also visited Bogota, Colombia.

Journey #8 – Peru
Wed May 23, 2012
After leaving Colombia, I returned to Peru for the second time. Peace Agent Gaby was not there because she went to continue her study but there we had David and Diana who pulled the strings and made all the beautiful mediation sessions together. It was a mission possible that happened in a week. The recap video of the event is as follow:

Journey #9 – Brazil
Fri Jun 8, 2012
We finish the South America tour in 2012 with three cities, Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. It was a great success of sharing inner peace through the practice of meditation with a lot of people. Look at the smile on their faces!

Journey #10 – Mexico
Sun Nov 18, 2012
It’s my first time to visit the central part of America and the beautiful Caribbean. We were in different cities: Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum and the Mexico City. We organized a three-day retreat as well.

Journey #11 – Nepal
Sun Dec 2, 2012
I visited Nepal to organize a meditation retreat for Mr. Nirvana of the CG group in November 2012. At the place, I also had a chance to meditate under the same big bodhi tree that appears in the little Buddha film.

Journey #12 – Poland
Mon Jun 10, 2013
The first Peace On Demand (PIPO) in Europe was organized by a Peace Agent from Poland, Weronika. We had sessions in Warsaw, Wrocław and Jelenia Góra.

Journey #13 – Peru
Sat Aug 3, 2013
This is my 3rd visit to Peru and the longest journey so far. I spent about 3 months staying there, learning Spanish, teaching in the Latin America fellowship as well as in a pilot “La Casa de Peace Revolution” in Lima

Journey #14 – Chile
Sun Aug 4, 2013
In Chile, we had sessions in three universities as well as a retreat.

Journey #15 – Argentina
Sun Sep 15, 2013
I also visited Argentina during my lent stay in Peru. We went to Buenos Aires, La Plata and Rosario for organizing the first Peace On Demand even there.

Journey #16 – Mexico
Sun Nov 10, 2013
The return to Mexico this time I went up North to Saltillo, Monterrey and Puebla. It’s interesting to see how different Mexico has in different regions. The number of participants I taught this time is over 1,500 people.

Journey #17 – Colombia
Mon Nov 18, 2013
In 2013, I returned to Colombia not only for ordinary PIPO sessions but also for a weekend retreat for 30 participants.

Journey #18 – Bolivia
Tue Nov 26, 2013
The second visit to Bolivia.

Journey #19 – Bulgaria
Sat Apr 12, 2014

Journey #20 – Germany
Sun Apr 20, 2014

Journey #21 – Uganda
Mon Apr 28, 2014

Journey #22 – Tanzania
Fri May 2, 2014

Journey #24 – Lithuania
Sat Oct 11, 2014

Journey #25 – Peru
Tue Nov 4, 2014
It´s been the 4th time so far that I have visited Peru. There is a very strong, organized, committed team of volunteers, never failing to promote Inner Peace through meditation and relaxation. This time I met 760 people and many of them have meditated with me since my earlier visits.

Journey #26 – Spain
Mon Nov 24, 2014
Fact about the journey Date: 19-24 November 2014 Number of participants: 310

Journey #27 – Kenya
Sat Jan 24, 2015
Fact about the journey Date: 21-24 January 2015 Number of participants: 442

Journey #28 – Turkey
Sat Mar 21, 2015
Fact about the journey Date: 21-22 March 2015 Number of participants: 84

Journey #30 – Russia
Fri May 1, 2015
I visited Ekaterinburg and Moscow for the PIPO in Russia.

Journey #33 – United Kingdom
Sun May 24, 2015

Journey #36 – Ecuador
Sat Sep 26, 2015

Journey #37 – Perú
Mon Oct 5, 2015

Journey #38 – Spain
Sat Dec 5, 2015
This is my second time in Spain. This time everything happened in Barcelona and all the meditation sessions were very cool.

Journey #39 – Australia
Mon Feb 29, 2016

Journey #40 – Italy
Wed Mar 9, 2016

Journey #41 – Georgia
Mon Mar 14, 2016
This is the second BRIDGE fellowship in Rustavi, Georgia, which is about 25 kilometers from the capital Tbilisi.

Journey #42 – Cameroon
Wed Mar 23, 2016
The Central & Western African Peace Fellowship in Cameroon Fact about the journey Date: 19 – 23 March 2016 Number of participants: 15

Journey #43 – Malawi
Sun Mar 27, 2016
Fact about the journey Date: 25 – 27 March 2016 Number of participants: 19

Journey #46 – Denmark
Thu Apr 14, 2016
In April 2016, I visited Denmark for teaching fundamental knowledge of meditation and Buddhism in Korsør temple for three days.

Journey #47 – Jamaica
Mon May 2, 2016
The trip to Jamaica was not only for a GPM training but also additional PIPO sessions. Global Peace on the Move Central America and the Caribbean There was also a PIPO session in Kingston, the capital city of Jamaica. A meditation session in the capital city of Jamaica

Journey #48 – Haiti
Mon May 9, 2016
I was invited by United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) to facilitate a meditation workshop and a weekend meditation retreat for UN agencies there. A meditation workshop at the MINUSTAH base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti There were also workshops with three NGOs, two were for Haitians while the majority of the participant of the other were for people from Latin America.

Journey #49 – Dominican Republic
Thu May 12, 2016
My visit to Dominican Republic was supposed to be easy and painless because everything was well-arranged by the host. However, something unexpected happened on the second day and put me in an adventure that I could never forget about it.

Journey #50 – Saint Lucia
Tue May 17, 2016
Saint Lucia is the most distant place I have ever been in the planet. It was so far to travel to. If I count the number of flights from Thailand, that will be equivalent to almost ten flights. There, I’m still happy to be able to conduct some meditation sessions and got some people meditate.

Journey #51 – Costa Rica
Sun May 22, 2016
My first visit to Costa Rica became both quality sightseeing trip and happy meditation sessions. I’ve met new friends and received very warm and loving hospitality, which will remain for the years to come.

Journey #52 – England
Thu May 26, 2016
This visit to England is to patch my available gaps between the previous event in Costa Rica and the next one in Turkey. I did not imagine myself teaching anyone when I arrived. However, I ended up teaching three sessions in a Dhammakaya center in Woking, one in Richmond and the last one with a group of Alejandra’s friend.

Journey #54 – Poland
Thu Jun 2, 2016
It’s my second visit in Poland. Last time, it was during the first Peace On Demand in Europe. This year my visit came unexpected because I suppose to go back from Turkey to Thailand but because an immediate unavailability of LP Pasura, I had to cover this journey on his behalf. And finally, it is going to be the last mission of the 107-day expedition in the first part of 2016.

Journey #55 – Singapore
Sat Oct 29, 2016
I went to conduct a meditation session “Mindful Lunchtime Refresher” in Li Ka Shing Library, Learning Lab, Singapore Management University (SMU) by an invitation by Professor William TOV. I presented how a secular mindfulness and meditation approach give benefits to the entire SMU community (faculty, staff, students) and guided a short meditation session.

Journey #56 – Latvia
Sun Dec 11, 2016

Journey #57 – Albania
Mon Dec 19, 2016
Tirana, Albania is where Peace Revolution selects to host the first South Eastern Europe (SEE) Peace Summit. With the help of Fleura and her team, the summit began and ended beautifully. There were also a lot of interests from the media and meditation has become a talk-of-the-town subject overnight.

Journey #58 – Georgia
Wed Mar 15, 2017
I have returned again to International Scout Centre Rustavi ISCS in Georgia to conduct the 3rd BRIDGE fellowship, which targets people from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia who are interested in learning and exploring self-reflection as primary means to create real world change. With about 30 participants from 13 countries who came together to empower themselves with the practice of mindfulness and meditation. In addition, I went to teach at several meditation sessions in Tbilisi as well

Journey #59 – Armenia
Sat Mar 25, 2017
The first mindfulness and meditation tour in Armenia.

Journey #60 – Tunisia
Fri Mar 31, 2017
It was a very short trip with a lot of flights and delays. But every minute spent in Tunisia was worthwhile. MENA Salam 4 was conducted here in the hometown of the MENA princess Aya Chebbi. It was my first time to spend the whole night laying over at an airport alone when a flight I was supposed to take was cancelled. I can never forget it.

Journey #61 – Costa Rica
Fri Apr 7, 2017
This was the second visit to Costa Rica. I met many people during the first visit so the second time made me feel like going back home and seeing my friends and familiar faces.

Journey #62 – Guatemala
Mon Apr 17, 2017
My second visit to Guatemala took me to several cities such as Antigua and Tecpan where I had a nice stay in a ranch and facilitated a meditation retreat there for three days. In addition to humans whom I guided meditation for, it was my first time to stay in a ranch seeing all those cattle and horses really up close.

Journey #63 – Honduras
Wed Apr 19, 2017
I visited Honduras for the first time and organized 16 meditation sessions for 787 people. I stayed in Yogas Garden, which is less than an hour drive from Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. It is more than satisfactory to see more responses from people, organizations and the media. This visit was longer than the previous meditation events in Honduras and it allows sharing with different publics that had not been reached before. People were so interested and keep to come back session after session. Many found the charm of meditation and will establish this inner peace time habit as a part of their lives.

Journey #64 – El Salvador
Fri Apr 28, 2017
The first session was in Instituto Tecnologico Centro Americano (ITCA) in Santa Tecla. There were 288 vocational education students that will learn meditate for the first time. But the institute prepared them asking them to draw pictures about meditation and inner peace. I guided meditation for 30 minutes. And for those who meditated, it didn’t feel like half an hour. They were a bit shy in sharing their experience but some mentioned that they didn’t feel the awareness of the body and didn’t hear the voice at some point but still being able to maintain concentration the whole time.

Journey #65 – Gambia
Tue May 23, 2017
Gambia is known as the smiling coast of Africa. Yeah, that can be true. A lot of people were smiling and I can see that from Sunkung Danso who hosted me during this visit. We went to several cities hosting a few meditation sessions. I took me some effort because Gambian people have never heard about meditation before. Some were reluctant to do it. However, many people tried and loved it and I had several beautiful memories from my stay there.

Journey #66 – Benin
Wed May 31, 2017
I traveled to Benin to facilitate a series of meditation sessions in Porto-Novo, Cotonou, Calavi, and Adjarra. With the total number of 610 participants, the trip was a fun experience with a little of unexpected surprise. But everything has ended well.

Amazing recap of so many people meditating around the world
Wed Aug 9, 2017
This video has real footages of people from different countries learning and trying meditation. Many of them did it for the first time in their life. It’s a clear evidence that meditation is really for all – regardless of race, nationality or creed. Hopefully, when more and more people meditate, this world is going to become a more peaceful place to live in.

Journey #70 – Belgium
Wed Oct 18, 2017
In Belgium, I had sessions in Leuven, Gent and Brussels. In Brussels, the session happened in a collaboration with Free Diving club. There were about 60 participants who came to listen to the topic ‘Peace culture: Peace in, Peace out’, which explores the concept of inner peace which is needed for achieving outer peace and sharing it within a community through person’s thoughts, speech and actions. The topic explains the nature of the mind and the external factors that affect the mind, like sight, sound, smell, taste, touch.

Journey #71 – The Netherlands
Tue Oct 24, 2017
My first mindfulness and meditation experiernce in the Netherlands

Journey #72 – Germany
Wed Nov 1, 2017
This time in Germamy I visited Cleve, North Rhine-Westphalia and Cologne.

Journey #73 – Latvia
Fri Nov 10, 2017
My second time in Latvia.

Journey #74 – Switzerland
Fri Nov 24, 2017
I once visited Switzerland about 12 years ago as a traveller and would never imagine that one day I could come back again as a monk. There were meditation sessions at Geneva International Meditation Center with different groups of people. Two additional sessions were organized in Webster university and a restaurant in Geneva. I also had a chance to stay at the temple in Bern. The atmosphere is so awesome. No doubt this is travel destination of many from around the world.

Journey #75 – The Digital Freedom Festival
Sat Nov 25, 2017
This is my first time to participate in the Digital Freedom Festival DFF in Latvia. I gave a lecture on the first session on November 2nd, 2017 at the new building of the Draugiem Group under the title ‘Digital Detoxification’. Here is the summary the DFF guys put on their website at … http://www.digitalfreedomfestival.com/news/how-to-detox-your-mind/ How to detox your mind? The DFF had a meetup at the Draugiem Group office with LP John Paramai Supadulchai, also referred to as Monk John, on how people can balance their busy lifestyle and digital behavior to discover inner peace within themselves.

Journey #79 – Kenya
Wed Oct 3, 2018
A new chapter of mindfulness and meditation activites in Kenya with diverse groups of poeple: artists, university students, yoga practioners, business people, and peace activists. There are some old venues I visited before as well as some new places. I also went to give an interview in a TV program. It’s amazing to see all of these squeezed into the five-day period, well tiring but memorable.

Journey #80 – Slovakia
Thu Nov 1, 2018
A short recap of my meditation sessions in Slovakia during 25-30 November 2018 in 7 cities with over 600 people

Journey #81 – Austria
Sun Nov 4, 2018

Journey #82 – Ireland
Thu Nov 15, 2018
My first visit to the republic of Ireland

Journey #84 – Latvia
Wed Dec 5, 2018
My thrid time in Latvia.

Journey #86 – Iceland
Tue Jun 4, 2019
Reykjavík yoga Reykjavík yoga is one of the most famous yoga studios in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland. I was invited to teach a mindfulness and meditation session with the topic “healthy relationship”. I shared that a healthy relationship is based on the direction of love … Once we can learn to love ourselves, we will develop unconditional love to share with anyone. People who practice meditation also develop more compassion that will allow us to forget negative things in others and focus more on the positivity.

Journey #87 – Ireland
Sat Jun 8, 2019
After finishing the sessions in Iceland, I went to Republic of Ireland to teach meditation in several places.

Journey #93 – Rwanda
Sun Nov 10, 2019
My visit to Rwanda is for two purposes. The first is to join an Amandla African Youth Fellowship from October 16-18, 2019. The second is to guide meditation in various PIPO sessions in Kigali as well as other cities.

Journey #94 – Latvia
Wed Nov 20, 2019
Tele2 In Tele2, Latvia which is a branch of one of a large telecommunication provider in Europe invited me to guide meditation and talked about Digital Detoxification, Mindfulness in Daily Life and Enhanced Creativity. This was a full day training with 3 sessions in Riga, Latvia. There were in total 77 people joining the program. In brief, I talked about the nature of the mind and problems that might occur when the mind had to face different circumstances in our daily life, which are caused by how the lifestyle of people in the modern era has changed so much.

Journey # 95 Albania
Thu Feb 6, 2020
In December 2019, I visited Albania to organize a series of mindfulness and meditation for psychologists in Tirana. The program is called the inner life, which is organized by an acclaimed psychologist Fleura Shkembi, endorsed by the Albanian Order of Psychologists in Tirana. The training went for 2 days with 4 meditation sessions. Who would have known that this is going to be my last international trip before a hiatus for several years.