Buddha Da by Donovan Anne

Author:Donovan, Anne [Donovan, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Scotland
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2009-09-24T14:00:00+00:00

Ah’d meant tae dae some work on it every day, but the next week a lama was comin tae vist the Centre and we spent loads a time gettin the place sorted for him. It was dead tidy anyway but everythin got hoovered and dusted and cleaned till it was shinin and the lamas went round burnin herbs and sprinklin incense tae purify it.

He was stayin in the lamas’ hoose on the Saturday night, comin tae dae a ceremony at the Centre on the Sunday, then he was away again, catchin a plane tae Paris that night. Apparently he ran a big Centre in France and was dead famous.

Ah couldnae quite get ma heid round all this stuff yet. When ah’d went tae see the Lama Thonden afore Christmas ah’d thought he was kinda unique, gaun round daein his special ceremony, but actually there seemed tae be this network of monks and lamas, all over the world, travellin around like pop stars. Ah know that sounds daft but then he actually was like a pop star, followed by this big train of folk. Some of them spoke French and a guy wi shades and a leather jaicket was on his mobile hauf the time. The lama was dead wee and they all had tae bend ower when they spoke tae him, as if they were bowin.

The Centre was mobbed; all the regulars were there but there was loadsa folk ah’d never seen afore; people were comin fae all over cause it was the lama’s only visit in Scotland. Ah’d got in early and sat doon the front but when ah turned roond ah noticed Barbara at the back. Ah waved and she smiled back.

Tae be honest, ah was a bit disappointed in the lama’s vist. He sat on the platform wi the Rinpoche and a couple a folk fae his ain team, and smiled at us, then he done these Tibetan prayers in a high-pitched singsong voice, swayin fae side tae side. The room was dead warm wi all the folk in it and ah found ma eyes shuttin, began tae drift aff tae sleep, jerkin back intae consciousness every time he came tae the end of a sequence. Efter the prayers he spoke tae us for a while, but he was talkin in French and the guy wi the mobile done the translatin. Somehow it wisnae the same. He was talkin aboot how we’re all enlightened really but hauf the time we don’t realise we are. Accordin tae him all we have tae dae is wake up and realise it. And that sounded plain daft tae me. What was the point of daein all that meditatin and all that if you’re really enlightened all the time? When he’d finished we all had tae file past him and he hit us on the shouder wi a kind of stick thing. There was an incense burner close tae me and ah could feel ma eyes sting and the back of ma throat catch.

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