martes, 24 de mayo de 2011

My favorite dish

My favorite dish is baked potato in the remaining fathom of a bonfire, hopefully with white cheese and spicy chili sauce. This dish is delicious and very simply to make in outdoor, after to the share meeting around to the fire, when charcoal fire off and only remain fathom, you must open one space into the fathoms and leave potato in here, then you must cover this and just wait.
After 10 to 15 minutes, you search and save your potatoes into the fathoms, whit careful for not burning because they are been very hot. You don’t must remove the shell, the baked potato is delicious at all, and you can ate without more, how you can see, is really easy food. You can accompany this with salt and butter. 

But, if you want something really delicious, you can accompany your potatoes with a piece of cheese and spicy chili sauce to taste. This is my favorite dish. The potatoes are very tasty with spicy sauce, and the with cheese help to support the spicy. So, you can enjoy a very spicy sauce without suffer.
The best of this dish it`s simplicity, generally is hard and stressful coking in outdoor, on a bonfire, but this meal you can make really easy, and even if is night and dark.  Also, you don’t dirty anything, you don’t wash latter.
I have very good memories of this dish, especially why you can enjoy with friend around the fire, talking or playing music, while us only wait that potatoes cocking by itself.
Is wonderful!

martes, 17 de mayo de 2011

The sand`s mandala

This photographic, show us the sand`s mandala.  A mandala is figure with sacred geometry for the Buddhism, have very axis of symmetry, like when we see into the kaleidoscope. The Hinduism have similar figures, but only whit straight lines, they called Yantras.
 The sand`s mandala, how they name indicates, is make with sand, with sand of very different colors. Formerly the powders to elaborate sand mandalas were prepared with semi-precious stones. Was used for blue lapis lazuli, rubies for red, etc. It is now prepared with marble dust stained and-sometimes-with fine white sand beach.
Is make for a few buddhist monk elected for a dalai lama, in the ceremony of the KalaChakra (wheel of time). This monk has this complex figure internalized in their minds. Only need meditate for visualize.
The sand`s mandala, is make up in a very ritual context. Before they begin they preparation, have place a ceremony to consecrate the place by invoking the enlightened beings. Then, they begin to draw with lines that serve as guide for placing the sand. All this is learned by heart and is based closely on the Buddhist scriptures; there is no way for error or improvisation.

Then they start to put the sand from the center toward the edges, symbolizing the fact that at birth we are just a drop of sperm and egg, and we are evolving until the whole universe is perceived through the senses. When the mandala is finished and it's time to dismantle it, the sand is collected from the edges to the center, representing how the death returned back to the primary source in the center of our hearts.
This is it:

This long ceremony is realized for the Dalai Lama, and receives 500.000 pilgrims. For the 10 days that last.  

martes, 3 de mayo de 2011

my favourite piece of technology

I’m not very hi-tech or fanatic of the technology, really i don’t interested to need a hi-tech piece. But my mp3 players make my diary travels more pleasant and short. I think that I begin to need him, because I miss him when don’t have with me or are downloaded. They design is so simple that him name is “zen stone”.
My mother give me this piece some time ago, and i´m really surprised when discovery they operation. A simple view it’s a simple mp3 player, with only 2 GB of capacity, but that has the option of speaker when the headphones are unplugging. This characteristic makes its him very special for me, because i can listen good music whit friend when we are outdoors. Piece of this type is very valued in work in a archaeological sites, because is the only form that we can listen music, in sites don’t have electricity and use headphones don’t allows listen whit us.  The sound of this mp3 player speaker´s is better indoors, but if you stay in outdoors, you must put the mp3 player in a hat, pot, jar or box… and the sound is amplified.
If i loss this piece of technology, would me cost much effort accustom to don’t listen music, but I achieved anyway.  The silent is not bad.