My journey started in London at 4.30 AM on the 11th of February of 2010. It had snowed heavily in London during that night. When I got to the airport, snow was still melting on my coat. The weather nearly cancelled my trip. It was just a little obstacle towards one of the most amazing journeys I experienced. Few hours later a blasting heat was expecting us in Costa Rica.
The plan was to meet my travel mates in Madrid, where a flight would take us directly to San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica. In Madrid I got my first “pure stress experience”. For the first time, without any previous arrangements, I met my travel mates inside the aircraft. With just 10 minutes for the flight departure, mobiles phones were disconnected, I found myself alone with no one on sight. I boarded and there they were…I thinks could write a few poems about this encounter, when my eyes “released”my spirit of joy. I guess it takes a bit more than deep trust to wait and expect to meet someone inside an airplane that is ready to leave!
The flight took around 11 hours through the north Atlantic. Although we were travelling at 900 Km/h, we couldn’t reach the Night again, which was just a few hours ahead of the aircraft. My Journey Colleagues slept most of the trip. Once again, I didn’t sleep. I was sitting next to a German gay, student of psychology, who wanted to learn French! What a strange combination, probably the 2nd strange combination after the fish and chips things.
We landed in San Jose at 4.30 PM, local time. Just an hour after landing, we had another “pure experience”, to be more precise, a “ pure meditation experience”. We were received by our friend GUI (aka from Guillermo, not some human robot user interface), who gently invited us for a meditation session at the Satyoga Institute [1]. There we met the Guru Shunyamurti [2] who guided us through a yoga meditation session. My meditation lasted about 10 seconds, because the minute I closed my eyes, I fell asleep, and for that reason, I had to keep my eyes wide open during 40 (!) minutes. However, the session provide me a few lessons: to perfect your body in order to prepare it to be standing still for a few hours in a certain position may be as demanding as preparing it to run the marathon. After the meditation, was time to question the Guru about anything we like. It was a very…unique conversation because the questions ranged from the explanation of the Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem [3], one of the most brilliant and most complex mathematics results of all times, to the soul immortality issue. Thus, from the most rational edge to one the most irrational and unexplained subjects. A very interesting assembly that was and where everybody had the space and opportunity to reveal deep feelings and deep thoughts.
After resting the soul, we settled down and rested the body. We were ready for some…PURE LIFE!
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