Tag: Pipo

Thursday, February 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.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Sunday, November 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.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

After finishing the sessions in Iceland, I went to Republic of Ireland to teach meditation in several places.

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

My thrid time in Latvia.

Thursday, November 15, 2018

My first visit to the republic of Ireland

Sunday, November 4, 2018

Thursday, November 1, 2018

A short recap of my meditation sessions in Slovakia during 25-30 November 2018 in 7 cities with over 600 people

Wednesday, October 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.

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

My second time in Latvia.

Saturday, November 25, 2017

This is my first time to participate in the Digital Freedom Festival DFF in Latvia.

Friday, November 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.

Friday, November 10, 2017

My second time in Latvia.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

This time in Germamy I visited Cleve, North Rhine-Westphalia and Cologne.

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

My first mindfulness and meditation experiernce in the Netherlands

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

In Belgium, I had sessions in Leuven, Gent and Brussels.

Wednesday, August 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.

Wednesday, 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.

Tuesday, 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.

Friday, April 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. Some asked question about the sleepy mind, how to use meditation to help improve their sleep and sleep a bit less, how to know when you need to clean the mind once it got contaminated a lot.

Tuesday, April 25, 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.

Thursday, April 20, 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.

Saturday, April 8, 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.

Friday, March 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.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

The first mindfulness and meditation tour in Armenia.

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

I have returned again to [International Scout Centre Rustavi ISCS](https://iscr.ge/) 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

Monday, December 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.

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Saturday, October 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.

Thursday, June 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.

Thursday, 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.

Sunday, 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.

Tuesday, 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.

Thursday, 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.

Monday, 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.

Monday, May 2, 2016

The trip to Jamaica was not only for a GPM training but also additional PIPO sessions.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

In April 2016, I visited Denmark for teaching fundamental knowledge of meditation and Buddhism in Korsør temple for three days.

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The Central & Western African Peace Fellowship in Cameroon

Monday, March 14, 2016

This is the second BRIDGE fellowship in Rustavi, Georgia, which is about 25 kilometers from the capital Tbilisi.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Monday, February 29, 2016

Saturday, December 5, 2015

This is my second time in Spain. This time everything happened in Barcelona and all the meditation sessions were very cool.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Friday, May 1, 2015

I visited Ekaterinburg and Moscow for the PIPO in Russia.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Monday, November 24, 2014

Tuesday, November 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.

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Friday, May 2, 2014

Monday, April 28, 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The second visit to Bolivia.

Monday, November 18, 2013

In 2013, I returned to Colombia not only for ordinary PIPO sessions but also for a weekend retreat for 30 participants.

Monday, November 11, 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.

Sunday, September 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.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

In Chile, we had sessions in three universities as well as a retreat.

Saturday, August 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

Monday, June 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.

Sunday, December 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.

Sunday, November 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.

Friday, June 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!

Wednesday, 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.

Friday, May 18, 2012

During the first Peace Revolution Change the World Tour in South America, we also visited Bogota, Colombia.

Monday, 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.

Sunday, October 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.

Saturday, 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.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Meditation can be a free medicine that cures different problems. One of them is insomnia.

Sunday, January 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.

Friday, December 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.