Our youth may be the future but we – my generation, are currently the leaders with the power, experience, resources, networks, wisdom, exposure and knowledge. How about we channel them to help fulfill this royal aspiration of the world’s first mindfulness city? How about even if we as private citizens come together?

So, I am on a chartered flight with some potential investors to the Mindfulness City. My second such flight. This time I also took the opportunity to fill up the plane with my teachers, and with few ordinary people who work for me and who have never flown before.😀😀😀

Fortunately the flight was smooth. Otherwise some of my Bhutanese guests would have passed out. This aircraft does not fly enough to avoid the mountain wave gushes. This flight was very ably piloted by the first father-daughter pilot duo of Bhutan – the veteran, Chenda Wangchuk, and his daughter.

A huge gratitude to the newly-appointed Governor Dr. Lotay Tshering (he even humbly drove us around) and the Thrompon and his team for hosting us from the moment we landed to the time we took off again.

Thanks also goes to my old friend from gokha days, Dasho Dubala, for the Riwo Sangchoe rituals which he had organised right on the day we visited. What a beautiful coincidence! It was not planned at all. This type of synchronicity (madribi tendrel in Dzongkha) augurs well. I was told that as we were setting there for a reception tea, a vulture circled over us three times and then flew away.

😎😎😎

(NB – My next article on GMC is titled: What is this “mindfulness” in the mindfulness city?)