Negative Energy and a Mystery

Yesterday it semd like some ngative energy field was descending on Bylakuppe. No power, no Internet, and finally no water. Nobody sems to know what's going on but it might be effects from the highway construction which is getting closer and closer. I also found a mystery in the old files. A grand scale water irrigation sprinkler schemme lifting water from the Cauvery river and pumping it in pipline to the settlement. One of the files were full of plans and maps, But the scheme nver took off. It took until 1995 before the first sprinkler was set up here by an individual setller and drawing its watr from a borewell. Further investigations are on their way. Thinley came aroumd and they took me for lunch, forcing me to eet the detestable meat momo. Yes, I faltered. Namgyal took me to show the very first borewell which is behinf his organic rice paddies. There is also a watertank back there. In the aftrnoon the meat monks were playing cricket in the yard outside the house, thereby violating yet another rul. If they are caught by the Lama Police they will be fined. But they lock the gate, and when the computer is on they locj the front door too. Today is a full-moon day so there was a full-moon puja early this morning. It turned out that the Dalai Lama had payed for a whole day puja so all the monks who do not work in an office or shop are commanded to participate. The meat monks can not roam free and have to hole up in the house until 4.30. Thupten is thinking about breaking out the back way in a Auto Rickshaw at 3 pm. We'll see what happens. There was no power in the office so I spent the morning going through documents to find an answer to the mystery. Finally I found a letter saying that the members of the Co-operative society had turned the scheme down. Unfortunately all the society minutes before 1984 have been lost but the present chairman told me that the Tibetans didn't think it was worth the troble and money since they planed on going back to Tibet shortly (this was in 1969). In fact it took until the 1990's until their attitude changed and peeople started investing in construction and farming. Ironically, in the 2000's the attitude is changing towards "why should I make an effort and invest here since I will soon be migrating to the West?"