Vipassana Diary

Day 2

We're beginning to have more fun in the kitchen; speed we work at is incredible. Cheryl used to have an award winning restaurant and likes to jazz up the recipes; Ken's doing an acupuncture course at uni; Mark is a Kiwi living at the centre for a few months. We've been learning from Cheryl that in a busy kitchen you have often have to warn each other when you're whizzing around with big, heavy, hot pot "behind you", "hot pan" But for us it's a bit of a joke…

I still feel tired from all that movement but enjoy feeding the little hatching Buddha's, who are struggling at times, just as I did first time I did a course. After our metta session we have a short group meeting to discuss operational things and I found out that Liz is getting stomach cramps from having a big gap between lunch and 5pm fruits. The teacher said that maybe she can have a light meal. I just hope the little chicken is ok.