viernes, 29 de abril de 2022

when Namkhai Norbu visited us in {Isla} Margarita.

 


The second step for me, was when Namkhai Norbu visited us in {Isla} Margarita. He had already made the decision that the place we should look for was in Margarita, because he had said from the beginning that it should be a place close to the sea, and not far from an international airport. We had already searched more or less extensively and Rinpoche was already convinced that the place for Tashigar North was Margarita.

 In that retreat that was organized in the Miragua hotel, in El Agua beach, he knew that it was in Margarita and we had to visit two or three lands and particularly the land that would be Tashigar North, which he had found chuortor, thanks to his relationship with Mr. Ambrosio, of whom he knew, that he was selling that farm.

Rinpoche when he knew this, saw it quickly and agreed. We did not have to present other possibilities (which in fact we had) which were numerous.

 That day (one day at the end of the retreat) we went with the Master to Tashigar North (which was still the farm); we went directly to the plateau above the land, from where the beaches and our agricultural land, the Tashigar North farm, are very well seen.

There a bottle of wine was uncorked and an offering was made to the universal energies - I mean- and we, those present shared a little of that liquor with the Master.

 That was like a seal: "Here Tashigar North is going to be built".

That was, I think, at the end of {year} two thousand, December, or January of two thousand and one. I don't remember well, but I could be wrong, but it was around there.

Being finished, we knew then that our task from then on was to buy, to find the conditions for the purchase.

Because it was not a land where we could build a lot. It had to be transformed. We had to increase the conditions of that land for its urbanization. Well, that was going to be Gilberto's and my particular task.

To that effect, we would have to live there. My first task after learning that we would be living in Pedro Gonzalez, was to visit the town and little by little ask around for a house to rent. I was able to find with more or less ease, a man named Ruperto Mata Mata who agreed to fix up a small house that was not in very good condition, so that in the following August, that is, in the summer, my family and I could move to Pedro González. That little house is adjacent to the prefecture, it still exists today.

So, the next step is: August 2001.

That is to say, my family: Carmen Teresa Rivas, David our son and I, we moved from the high Mocúi of the state of Mérida, to the island of Margarita to the town of Pedro González.

Imagine moving. We had a Renault car, a station wagon, a little bit bigger than the little one, and there we had all the things we needed to move, a little bit hippy style... (Smiles).

A washing machine, a carpentry workbench, the mandala (on the roof), and a lot of little things, well, a whole move.

On that trip, the relevant thing is that, when we arrived in Barcelona, before reaching Puerto La Cruz, when we entered the first traffic light in Barcelona, the car had no steering. I could turn the steering wheel as much as I wanted and nothing happened to the wheels. In front, when the traffic light turned green, I pressed the accelerator a little bit and the car entered a big fire station by itself. We had just passed a hardware store, and I had a bunch of tools in the car. I had a vision of what had happened, as I knew that days before I had had the steering wheel fixed, well, changed from a mechanical to a more sophisticated one, and the mechanics had apparently forgotten to adjust the steering wheel bolts. Well, in less than half an hour we had it repaired, and we headed towards the port.

I tell you that when the car arrived at the port parking lot to get on the ferry, I almost fainted. Because at that moment I could, in retrospect, see what could have happened to us on the road, particularly in Uarico, where we were at a certain moment when the road was full of trucks with gondolas full of sugar cane, corn and other things. Narrow roads where it was very unpleasant to overtake or cross those trucks in normal conditions, what would have happened to us if the steering had gone in those conditions....

But well, we got out of there, I at least with the impression of having revived.

 Then, we arrived at our house in Pedro Gonzalez, and immediately unloaded what was on the roof and went to the beach to rest our bodies, which had come from traveling more than a thousand kilometers on roads, not always of the best quality.

There, while we were bathing, we turned to look towards what would become Tashigar, where there was a large cloud on the mountain behind Tashigar, surely there was rain and a brilliant rainbow appeared, followed by a second rainbow more attenuated and at the end, we saw a piece of a third one that appeared there.

This was as if these were enveloping the place where it was to be located {the gar}. We already knew the valley from the previous year where the gar was to be located.

 Of course, we wrote of all this to our teacher. The reception of the rainbow and the risks we had taken on the road.


 


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