You know, on the train I met many couples. They just save money for one month, in one month or something, just to go on a holiday for three days in one of the places in Austria, like one of the “Bad” (Spa), they call it, or one of the “See”, like the lake. And they just go there, they just walk in the mountains together, and stay in a hotel, and then they go home. That’s a very good mentality. They know how to live, they don’t just get money [and] put [it] in [their] pocket. […]
When the Buddha was alive, He didn’t have a big temple. Maybe one or two, by disciples built, but not just empty, temples everywhere. And when (Lord) Jesus was alive, He didn’t even have shoes. He had to hide everywhere, all the time. He worried people would catch Him. He could not even stay in one place sometimes. He said, “The Son of God doesn’t have anywhere to lay His head.” And then, after He died, look at how many churches we have. (Yes.) Empty; some are empty, some big and empty. Cost a lot of money. If they don’t need it they could give it to us. Sharing is believing, no? We would repair it. We’d pay for electricity, water, and food, and we’d repair. That’s the best way to use a church, right? Go and pray to God, meditate for mankind. […]
As long as the people can gather together, I don’t care. I don’t need churches. Actually, just need people to leave us in peace, that’s all. I can pay for a church, I can pay for a place, it’s just so… Just leave us, that’s all. We don’t even need anything. We don’t need a luxury place or… (No.) Just decent, clean, and next to the sea, if possible. Well, we don’t ask for much. Just a sea, I mean. The sea is normally free of charge. Right? Or next to the lake, it’s already better than nothing. But mostly, places like that are already occupied. You can’t expand any more, you can’t make it big, you don’t have enough room to run around. So, it’s just squeezing, but it’s fine. We have room inside. (Yes.) Right now, we’re OK, huh? (Yes.) It’s OK.
I asked if we can make a marquee like this, and you told me, “no.” Somebody told me “no” and now how do we have it? Is it allowed? (Yes, Master.) He told me he asked you or something and said, “Cannot put up a marquee.” (They told us, “If it’s only for a few days…) OK? (…it’s OK. And talk to the neighbors and tell them that you’re having a party…) OK. (…and that’s OK.”) Alright, that’s it. I thought they would be OK. I mean what’s [the] harm [with] a marquee that’s just for a few days, right? It’s plastic anyway. (Yes.) Anybody can take it away in no time. So it’s good, after a few days we take it away and it’s fine. And we just try not to disturb neighbors. Don’t go over there and tease their dog(-people) or something like that. Pull their tails. No, huh? (No.) OK. Then just enjoy. It’s also fine, we come now and again, it’s fine. (Yes.)
No need to always stick together and get on each other’s nerves. Suppose we stay together too long, what’ll we do? Every day just sit here, staring like that. Eat and go sit and then stare again. Wow, it’s nice to sit outside; it’s cool. You feel good? (Yes.) I feel more like a human after a bath. After a shower, I feel more human. It’s cool. It’s not bad. Just the reason I was thinking I didn’t want to expand or look anymore [is] because I thought it’s also far away.
You have to change airplanes, right? (Just once.) Once. I changed twice and still couldn’t come. And many trains and many taxis. Even from the airport, from that last airport, to that train station I had to change to another taxi because that guy didn’t know that city. So I changed to another driver and he said, “Oh, it’s too near. I don’t want to take You.” You know, no money. I said, “Don’t worry, just tell me how much, I will make it up for you like a long distance.” So, he said, “OK then.”
I tell you, I speak their language all the time. I speak many languages. Any country, I’ll speak just exactly that language. Three different countries, all the taxi drivers understand me. Even though their English is very little, but they understand. International language. Well, they’re working hard for it. You must understand. (Yes.) Taxi drivers, sometimes they have to stay in the airport for many hours to wait for the plane to come, and in queue. Like [the] first come and take the customers. And sometimes the plane doesn’t even arrive, like yesterday. And they wait all day for nothing. (Yes.) This is the problem. They take only one customer and then just a few meters and come back. Then they have to wait behind in the queue again. (Yes.) So many hours until the next airplane comes. Do you understand me? (Yes.) And not everybody takes a taxi. Sometimes it’s a rainy day, or somehow some days are just good. Some days I see taxis just hanging there all day and they wait many hours for one customer. And they have to pay tax, they have to pay petrol, they have to pay [for their] car, they have to pay [for] their children and their wife at home, of course. So anyway, you have to understand that. So it’s not like I try to bribe them or anything, but I just also understand their situation. I sympathize with them anyway, so they normally don’t need to ask me, I would give them a lot anyway.
But I was thinking it’s so far, it’s not like at the main airport and all that. But if you buy some place like this in Wien (Vienna)… I don’t know if you can. And also, in Wien (Vienna), it’s maybe squeezy. Here is fresh. (Yes, very nice place.) Here’s really relaxed. (Yes.) Because people come here just to relax. (Yes.) There’s nothing much to do. (And very quiet.) You can’t help but relax here, there’s nothing else to do. And not many cars, if you have to walk anywhere. It’s good so. Exercise. People love to do that.
You know, on the train I met many couples. They just save money for one month, in one month or something, just to go on a holiday for three days in one of the places in Austria, like one of the “Bad” (Spa), they call it, or one of the “See”, like the lake. And they just go there, they just walk in the mountains together, and stay in a hotel, and then they go home. That’s a very good mentality. They know how to live, they don’t just get money [and] put [it] in [their] pocket. They just save it, go [for] a few days (holiday), take a walk together, on a mountain, or in the forest, or ski, walking, and then go home. Can you believe that? (Yes.) Just that. Yes, a few days. They said, “They need it otherwise they’d go kaput.”
So here is like that; you come sometimes. Relax[ing] also [is] fine. So I want you to also have like a holiday. Not to come just to stare at one woman all day, it’s so boring. No matter how many clothes she changes, she’s the same. Just gets old every day. Lipstick or not, it’s the same, just older. So, here is a holiday place. You see? (Yes.) So, if you walk around, you blend in. See, no problem. Some places, we cannot walk around. You know what I mean? (Yes.) But here it’s OK, nobody cares. Even winter, OK, if you can bear the cold, sometimes in winter we could come here, and also have a holiday. Even less people. Snow, but it’s OK.
This hotel is equipped for winter, even. Because the owner, she lived here all year round. Many years. So it must be warm enough for her. (Yes.) And perhaps now and again she caught a few “fish” in winter. The ones who come to walk around the mountain. There’s a ski resort nearby, and there is a thermal bath, warm bath coming soon, somewhere. And they’re going to run it into a channel somewhere, then you can have a warm bath, natural. I heard like that. Or maybe she just advertised so that I get the hotel. I haven’t seen that warm thing anywhere yet. I said, “Where is it? Can we see it?” She said, “No. I mean it’s somewhere. People have to develop it.” Probably have to dig it or something. Make it more useable for people. Maybe it’s in the wild or something, covered.
There’s another See (lake) nearby. Walking distance, maybe 20 minutes. Smaller See (lake) and everybody has a trailer – they bring a trailer there, or they rent a trailer. So if you feel like this place is too squeezy, you can go over there and rent a trailer, and then run back here [for] every meal, or when you hear the gong, bell, “ba-gong,” you run back for food and meditation. Then at night run back there to sleep. Have your own freedom. Very cheap, actually. It’s not very expensive here, not expensive in this place.
This used to be like bed-and-breakfast only. And only one lady ran it. Can you believe it? The owner and one cleaner. (Wow.) That’s it. So many years and she was an elderly lady. If you say you’re working hard – shame on you, really. When you see other people work, you feel we are not doing much. You know? (Yes.) What are you looking at? Starer? We can sing a song like, “Stare-y, stare-y night. Stare-ing.” Staring at people. Not “starry,” but “stare-y.” Staring.
OK, now you do what you want until 8 o’clock. I’ll see you later. Eight or is 8:30 better? You know what? Maybe daytime… what else [do] you do? At nighttime, meditate? (Yes, we meditate.) Daytime, what to do? (Meditate.) What? No, daytime, when it’s hot. Go swim. (Yay!) (Better.) We can do that. We can arrange that. Like at noon, or between… What time [do] you eat [in the] morning? (Eight to nine.) (Eight.) (Ten.) Ten. Eight to ten. OK. And after that, you walk around a little bit, 11 to 2. Yes, two, three hours. Each one different places, and sometimes if you want to swim, you ask people, “Can we go and swim there? We pay a little money or not?” It cannot be that much, maybe $5, $2. (Yes.) Because cannot all go in there, it’s also a small beach.
Or maybe you talk to [the owners of] that beach. OK? You show them where. (Yes.) If you want to go, you have to ask her. It’s over there. You just go – there’s a street in front of us here, just go a little bit further, turn the left, and maybe three, four minutes’ (walk). But you have to know which one because they all look... Don’t just go in anywhere. So maybe we put a ribbon or something there, so they know or something and tell the owner first that maybe a group of very… “unruly,” and happy-go-lucky, silly faces, silly-looking people [are] coming. “Be prepared.” And if he thinks we should pay something more, then just tell me. Just tell them, because sometimes they come a lot. They take turns. I don’t know if he has a limit or not. Just tell us and maybe we can arrange something.
But we don’t always use it every day – or every month, even. We haven’t used it since last October or September, whatever. Mostly they don’t count those times because winter they close around here. Not every hotel’s open; mostly closed, closed, closed, beach and everything. In winter, people don’t come to swim anyway. So actually, we pay for the whole year, but we don’t use that much. Only use this time, and we don’t know how much longer we’ll use the hotel. Tell him that, and if he thinks we use too much or something, after a while, just tell us. OK, right. “A lot of people… Don’t know how many. All look very silly. Identical. They all look like twins. Man, woman, look very similar. You can recognize them by the face.” Stare-y face.
OK, guys, I had fun. See you around. You know what? As many as you can, downstairs. It’s cooler. No, no, not now but I mean when you do your praying. (Yes.) As many as can downstairs, in the corridor and all that, but just let people have a way to walk. Seat as many as can downstairs. It’s cooler, no? (Yes.) Yeah. Upstairs is a little bit hot. Alright? (Yes.) Whatever. Try to find an empty space. But we’re happy. No? (Yes. Very happy.) Any complaints? (No.) I told you what to do already with the complaints. You write it down and then you read it yourself. And then you go and put it in the garbage can. What’s the hand doing? I thought somebody wants to talk. It’s good. Don’t talk, it’s fine. Talk later. Later I will let you talk. You better have some good talk. Good stories. OK, I’m going.
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