19th March 2013 - "ALL THE WORLDS PROBLEMS CAN BE SOLVED IN A GARDEN”.

Our 6th PAAPEDI-day started early morning at 6am in a big garden with barefoot nature meditation and the sounds of all kinds of early birds. The deeper meaning of our outside meditation is to start feeling being part of nature, rather than feeling detached from it.

Meditation starts at 5.30am when its still dark!

During the daytime we focused on leadership education, sustainability concepts and the relevancy of youth projects.

How an article was written in Thirukkural News Paper!

All of us participants are from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds. For some it is the first time in their lives that they are in such close touch with a different community other than their own. And everybody loves it. We discover our own diversity and the beauty of it. During the first days I used to ask the other participants about their ethnic backgrounds. But one guy refused to tell me. All he said was, "I am a human being and i can speak three languages – English, Sinhalese and Tamil".  - I think that is the best answer one can give. Since then I stopped asking and I am happy that we all feel so connected despite of man made distinctions and history.