Dhamma Seminars, Part 1

Down come the carpets!

On with the market!

All set!

View from our balcony

Baking soda to keep down odours

Hard work!

Street washing

Our street has been very exciting this week!  On Saturday/Sunday the street was hosed down, dusted with baking soda and the market stalls were pulled back and covered.  Each evening for a week we have carpets laid down and a procession of monks walk up the carpet through the seated public.  Then from a red and gold stage at the front different monks each night deliver a 2 hour lecture on various aspects of Buddhism and how to live your life with inner peace.  All is in Burmese so I have to go on what I've been told.  At various intervals there are chants and at the end of the evening, about 9.30, the religious group leaves, the mats are rolled up, the toadstool lights are taken away and all is ready for the busy market the next day.

Hosing the street