Remembering some moments of the voyage to the most relevant places of the Buda’s path, in India, which took place in October 2022, and was happily shared with an heterogenic and dedicated sangha.

All around the road we saw motorcycle princesses going on their way.
-What’s your name?
-Dennis.
-Where you come from?
-Portugal, southern Europe…
-There are many things to see here!
-We going north, to meet Buda places.

We saw sacred cows at Sanjay colony, a shanty town build by the population in the surroundings of New Delhi.
-My name is Naresh, the guide that leads you into this place.
-Can we take pictures?
-No, here is not permitted.
-Why not?
-This is not a tourist place, we must respect the dwellers.
(The streets were full of people and the smell was overwhelming).

Very often boys walk together with one hand leaning on the shoulder of the other. Or even holding hands can be a sign of their friendship.
-Do you have Camel cigarettes?
-No, only Marlboro…
-Let’s try another place.
-Never mind, I will try tomorrow morning.
-Give me your hand, so you don’t get lost.
(The streets in Varanasi were chaotic, with too many traffic and people moving around).

It was hot and the Ashoka Pilar stand with a smiling lion on is top. Here was accepted the inclusion of nuns in the Buda’s sangha, a poor region as Sanjay that we saw in Delhi, where the cast system is not relevant.
-This is the World Peace Stupa.
-Why it as also statues of the smiling lion?
-Because the Ashoka reign was the golden age of budism in India.
-But this is a Japanese stupa, right?
-Yes, it was built in the sixties, as a memorial of Japan atomic bombing.
(We look at the standing white pagoda rising the intention that similar wars won’t ever happen again in the world).

We were travelling further north when I felt involved by the sound of a Raga played by Shankar in is double violin.
It look like it was coming from the trees and mountains, as well from the heated mist elevating from the ground. And it seems that the pace of the bus carrying us was a tabla performing our hearts throughout an endless floating road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGJdoTNbSs

Above New Dehli’s Central Park several eagles were flying in large circles. We had already seen a considerable amount of monkeys in the garden of the hotel and its surroundings.
-Have you just seen it, there’s a lot of small squirrels in the trees.
-Last night I saw huge bats flying low, near the market.
-There are many street dogs sleeping on the ground or just wandering quietly.
-Just like the goats in the country villages.
-There are not only cows rooming everywhere.
(At Lodi Park a great number of geese stroll together near the lake in a loud array of acute sound).