On behalf of the Sangha our loving appreciation to all to those involved through the Tradition’s Budapest Centre, who are working together at this time to provide all the necessary love, support and shelter for displaced families for the past 3 weeks.

Please read below the message shared by our Hungarian family about the relief efforts carried out by their volunteers:

On the afternoon of 3 March, we received a call that some young people from India, who were fleeing the war in Ukraine, needed our help. That evening, the twenty frightened-eyed Indian students of medicine arrived at the Himalayan Tradition’s Budapest centre.

Allow us to quote from the words of one of our dear fellow practitioners, Agnes, who, among other things, welcomed them that evening:

“They are slowly starting to talk, I wish they wouldn’t. It took them five minutes to get out of the metro and the bombs came, three of their companions died right  there, and they don’t know anything else. The people of Kharkov were told to flee three hours before the attack, but they are coloured people, nobody really cared about them. They had enough time to take their passports with them, they say in perfect English. They are 24 years old, but they already know everything about life and now ….death, and this knowledge is evident in their every mature movement as they make themselves a bed from the mattresses and blankets in our Himalayan yoga studio.”