02/11/2026
7月尾收到這位朋友的message，說她在9月會帶同一歲的女兒回祖家 ~ 瑞典的一個森林，因為要讓女兒了解她們的祖先 — 歐洲一個剩餘的森林薩滿族。她邀請我參加她在離港前的farewell，也想我給來的朋友可可「儀式」（瑪雅人沒有可可儀式所以括了儀式二字）。當然二話不說應承了！
At the end of July, I received a message from this friend saying she would be bringing her one year old daughter back to her hometown in September - a forest in Sweden to let her learn about their ancestors ~~ a forest shamanic tribe in Europe that was about to disappear. She invited me to her farewell and would like me to give a cacao ”ceremony“ for her friends (the Mayan don’t have cacao ceremony, hence the word ”ceremony“ in brackets). I said yes without second thought!
但說到和她的認識其實並不是因為薩滿，而是我們也在2017在梅村學習正念導師課程。當時我們也是在corporate工作，office也只不過是樓上樓下。但更有趣的是後來我們發現她的丈夫是我當時在Guernsey的上司的大學好友！是的，世界很大，但也可以細到這個地步！而她知道自己是將消失的一個森林薩滿族後人是因為她聽過我說關於薩滿的事情，之後生了興趣，做research後發現自己的母親和祖先原來是薩滿。於是她在過去幾年開始尋根。現在她把女兒帶回去與祖先大地連結。
But our acquaintance wasn‘t actually because of shamanism, rather, we both studied mindfulness teacher courses at Plum Village in 2017. We both worked in corporate field at that time and our offices were just upstairs and downstairs. What’s even more interesting is that we later discovered her husband is a college friend of my boss in Guernsey at that time! Yes, the world is big, but it can also be small like this! After she heard me talked about shamanism that arose her interest to know more and thus she went on to research more. She began tracing her roots since the past few years, found her mother and ancestors were shamans and learnt she is a descendant of a disappearing forest shamanic tribe. Now she‘s taking her daughter back to reconnect with their ancestors and the land.
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至於有這個標題，是因為我們雖然認識了差不多有近十年，但我們不常見，也不常send message給對方，但我們見面時會「雞啄唔斷」。當知道她要離港時我們才發現大家有很多話還未說。知道回家是對她們一家最好的選擇，所以很替她高興。「無常」的發生讓我們知道其實我們走近了！
And about the title of this post, it is because although we‘ve known each other for almost ten years, we didn’t see each other or send messages often, but the times when we did meet, we chat incessantly. Because she was leaving, we started to message each other again and realized there were so much left to say. Knowing that going
