How we forget

BangkokDean

BangkokDean

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I just received a private message for a fellow VM member 1Michel and it hit me that we some times over look the place we live. I have lived here for 27 years and in my day to day routine sometime it is folks that live outside that see what we pass everyday and do not see any more. Michel had seen a TV show that originated in France and his impression of Bangkok is one that hit home. This city is a fascinating place that I do enjoy and many time don't appreciate. What attracted me here was of course business and with 20 some years of riding all over this country on a Harley it really is the people that is the best part of living here.

So thanks Michel for reminding me what a great place this is.:friends:

This a clip he sent with his message.
http://ports.tv5.ca/index.php?page=bangkok

Buddha's real teaching
‎"Try to be mindful and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha."
 
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Cool, I have to admit that I had no knowledge about this city, country before I saw that TV show.

Like I said, it was fascinating, the life, street life, restaurants, markets how people have to take many public transports, bikes, boat, trains etc. to get from home to anywhere on a daily basis.

The religions that are in place etc.

As I was watching this show, I could hardly imagine the red Vette or the Hotrod pick up rumbling in there, LOL

Cool and fascinating place.

The link is in french and I tried to translate what they had to say about this place.

Bangkok, often called the Venice of Southeast Asia, is literally irrigated khlongs, these small canals that were once the main arteries of the city. The boats can be counted by thousands yet, but since those canals were replaced by concrete roads, and with no urban planning, travel in the city have become completely chaotic. In an attempt to escape the inevitable traffic jams, all means are good, the most rudimentary to the most modern tuk tuks, rickshaws, boats, scooter, skytrain ...

But if the streets are so crowded, it is not only due to bad traffic. Bangkok is a city where everything happens in the street. In addition to the vast and teeming markets that litter the city, hundreds of thousands of small shops and food kiosks take place in the streets day and night: shoemaker, tailor, locksmith, who sells satay, grilled insects, fruit , ice cream ...

The city is bustling, certainly, but its people are friendly people. And this is probably not unrelated to the fact that we find in the middle of this swarm of countless temples, some huge, others more subtle, all reflect the steadfast adherence to bouddisme citizens. Over 90% of them are practicing and stop regularly during the week in these places of worship, and more to spend much of their weekends with family. No wonder then, that the rule "live and let live" is so well embodied here.
 
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