En diciembre de 2015, tras un periodo de negociación largo y complicado y gracias al apoyo y la experiencia de Pedro Gómez y toda su familia, conseguimos la hipoteca y firmamos el contrato de compra venta de la Villa. La villa se ha comprado bajo el paraguas de la Fundación de Karma Guen por instrucciones de Lama Ole, ya que no teníamos otra estructura legal que apoyara la compra.
Last July we organized the first Milarepa Weekend (work weekend) at the villa. First objective? The villa and the pool! Friends from Karma Guen and Cartagena joined in to the joyful effort for the benefit of all, creating friendship.
Challenged by the powerful heat of Granada’s summer, we gave our best as early in the day as possible. We had a nice water hose to our help, which kept us fresh during the work and helped us to wash out what was in the way to let the garden of our beautiful villa Kagyu shine in front of the Sierra Nevada. As brilliant finish we meditated in our garden, now shiny. A million thanks to our friends on the way, which helped us!
Verano de 2015, aún sin ser propietarios, Lama Ole visita la Villa por primera vez. En su visita conoce a uno de los dueños de la casa, inspira a muchos amigos de todo el mundo que pudieron venir para la ocasión, bendice la casa y fué una gran inspiración para nosotros.
This year we prepared some new tasty treats to support your power at night at Karma Guen. You will enjoy a couple of local delicacies like tapas and Spanish sandwiches and we will now serve you hamburgers as well, don´t miss them!
If there is something that characterizes us as Kagyus next to our dedication to meditation, it is that we love to be among friends and enjoy things together. So we invented Cine Kagyu, to once a month enjoy a film together in our Sangha flat with Popcorn and some tapas – after meditation, of course 😉
One of these ideas, which have been sitting around for a while, finally came true. We organized a night of dance and fun in Karma Guen playing “Just-Dance” together. This is a multiplayer game of the Wii, where you compete to “elegantly” follow a given choreography.
We selected the Easter course to be as many as possible and play as many rounds as possible with 4 dancers per round and song. We projected the screen to the wall of the cafeteria and so not only the 4 dancers were “on stage”, but dozens of friends joined in the dance – hilarious! and pure joy!
The winner of it all got the beautifully illustrated book about the Thaye Dorje gompa in Karma Guen signed by Dawa.
This was already the second weekend we spend together with the friends in Malaga to fundraise for the villa Montserrat project. After meditation and teachings and late dinner this time the night was dedicated to Carnival! Pure joy guarantied 🙂 Thank you friends for this great time!!
Con mucho gozo, emprendimos el nuevo rumbo y lo primero que teníamos que hacer era conocer la estabilidad de una casa tan antigua, para esto, invertimos el dinero que habíamos conseguido en contratar un estudio técnico de la casa y nos dijeron que los muros y el techo estaban muy bien pero que la estructura estaba un poco dañada y había que asegurarla. Le presentamos el resultado del estudio a Lama Ole y decidimos seguir adelante con la negociación de la compra.
Our shiny Spanish ladies spend a weekend in Bailen to get photographed by our artist Roxana Mesa to produce a Dakini calendar. If you like it, we will make a Daka calendar too 😉
Después tuvimos una reunión muy inspiradora y muy rápida con Lama Ole, lo primero que dijo al empezar fué, “amigos esto es una joya y tenemos que tenerla ya, esta casa se ve fuerte y va a durar muchos años, es como nosotros, tiene raíces fuertes y antiguas”, después nos hizo una donación de 5.000 para comprarla, la primera donación para comprar la Villa vino directamente de Lama Ole.