Sustainable Cambodia, an organization whose goal is to help Cambodian villages become self-sustaining communities, is working with the people of Cambodia, helping them create a better life for themselves and their children. The organization works at the grassroots level, effecting change person by person and community by community.
As part of this goal, Sustainable Cambodia organized the first Avatar Course in Cambodia. It took place the last week of July, 2005, in Angkor Wat.
Appreciation to Avatar Masters Richard Allen, from Florida, for organizing the course and Susan Roziadi, from Bali, and Rochelle Schmallembach, from Thailand, for delivering The Avatar Course.• • •
The following are some thoughts and feelings expressed by the students:
I am very excited to now understand more about myself. I’ve also learned how to be more peaceful and enjoy a better world.
ReSurfacing helped me to be more self confident, and I can honestly say that what I have learned on The Avatar Course is really useful in the real world, for me and the people around me. I feel I have an invaluable tool that will help me to create success in my career.
Living deliberately is the only path, admittedly, for reaching the goals we’ve set. After The Avatar Course, I feel that I have changed I will continue to use the Avatar tools for the rest of my life. I believe that a peaceful, successful, better world is waiting for me.I had clear insights into beliefs and belief filters that can block ideas and intention toward positive changes.After The Avatar Course I feel free of stress and not as heavy as before.
I feel satisfied and openly friendly toward all people. I realized quite a lot about myself, freed myself from indoctrination and was able to create enlightenment for myself. This is my world.I am happy to be me.
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From the ninth century to the 15th century, Cambodia was the center of the mighty Khmer Empire, which, during this time, was based at Angkor. The Khmer empire produced some of the world’s most magnificent architectural masterpieces on the northern shore of the Tonle Sap, near the present town of Siem Reap.
The temples of Angkor, now partially restored, constitute the premier collection of examples of Khmer architecture. Angkor Wat, the empire’s main religious temple, remains a symbol of Cambodia during its time as a world power and is also the country’s top tourist attraction to this day. Angkor Wat was built between 1112 and 1150 by Suryavarman II. With walls nearly one-half mile on each side, Angkor Wat portrays the Hindu cosmology with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world; and the moat, the oceans beyond.
Khmer culture, as developed and spread by the Khmer empire, has distinctive styles of dance, architecture and sculpture which have strongly influenced neighboring Laos and Thailand.
Now, after years of civil war, Cambodia has gained stability and has begun to rebuild the country’s infrastructure and restore the historic sites through joint efforts of the French, Japanese and the U.N. In fact, some temples were carefully taken apart stone by stone and reassembled on concrete foundations. Today, almost one million people each year visit the temples at Angkor.
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