{"id":859,"date":"2011-12-15T12:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T11:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=859"},"modified":"2013-09-19T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T07:13:00","slug":"leaving-home-for-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Leaving home for home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-933\" href=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?attachment_id=933\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-933\" title=\"P1010019\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P10100191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P10100191.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/P10100191-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The coming one and a half month I will be in Tiruvannamalai, India (!ndia).<br \/>\nThe first two weeks I&#8217;ll participate in a retreat with Swami Suddhananda in his <a href=\"http:\/\/selfknowledgeonline.com\/ashrams\/ashram_thiruvannamalai.php\">ashram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Schiphol, Tuesday, December 16, 06.00 hours.<\/p>\n<p>So, here we are, checked in, having a espresso at Starbucks. Just bought a notebook,<br \/>\npaper version, for Euro 1,50, possibly the cheapest item available on the airport.<br \/>\nIt dawned on me to just write the texts that I can see from here: whiskey &amp; cigars \/ Embrace your gold life \/ Holland Gifts \/ Business Fashion \/ Ralph Lauren \/ Lounge 1 \/ Diamonds \/ Open your platinum world \/ Let&#8217;s gather with good friends \/ See, Buy, Fly \/ Xmas offer, 2 for Euro 48 \/ Gingerbread Latte \/ Cranberry White Mocha \/ Toffee Nut Latte \/ Your Christmas favourites are back \/ Starbucks Coffee \/ Van Gelderen Airport Services Tel: 0235551588 \/ Help us to recycle \/ Bagage Lockers, Toilets, Baby Care \/ Newspapers and magazines \/ Libelle Margreit Kerst \/ News and Books \/ Chanel no 5 \/<br \/>\n100 % Arabica coffee beans \/ First Aid Eerste Hulp \/ Airline Lounges 25 &#8211; 52 By invitation only \/ Smoking area Rookruimte \/ Liquor Tobacco Perfumes \/ Bols Corenwyn &amp; Herring a perfect combination.<br \/>\nIn one look around I can see almost twenty fully pimped Christmas trees and a abundance of golden glitter bombs clustered on the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>In one and a half hour the retreat with Swami Suddhananda will start.<br \/>\nNever seen the man before, never read a word by him and here I am.<br \/>\nAt the other side of the road, on the ashram terrain they are building almost a small street with new housing for visitors. At the building site is a intriguing text by Swami Suddhananda, that I will try to get in digital form. When that works out I will post it here.<\/p>\n<p>Am writing this from the Suddhananda Ashram shop, where three pc&#8217;s provide internet connection for those visitors without a laptop\/notebook\/Ipad of\u00a0their own.<br \/>\nOutside it is raining pets, mainly cats and dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming one and a half month I will be in Tiruvannamalai, India (!ndia). The first two weeks I&#8217;ll participate in a retreat with Swami Suddhananda in his ashram. Schiphol, Tuesday, December 16, 06.00 hours. 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