Hi Benjamin, nice to meet you again here on D&D. D&D is everywhere, even in Hamburg!
Yes, I also enjoyed the weekend very much, and it was fun to translate. I’d also like to thank you for your many and often so creative contributions to the matter.
I just got the link to Sunday night’s talk that has been video recorded and hope everybody enjoys it just as much as I did:
And the description that goes with it:
Heroes and hard times
In the early texts we see a Buddha who was unafraid to speak of his difficulties and hardships, who presented a very human face to the quest for awakening. The classic hero’s journey depicts the quest for the most valuable prize, undaunted by whatever obstacles stand in the way. While later traditions depict a Buddha whose grandeur and perfection at times dwarves the mere human condition, when we read his own teaching we see a Buddha whose struggles mirror our own.
Bhante Sujato, thank you so much for inspiring the hero in us all. That exercise in the beginning was quite the ice-breaker.
Anagarika @Sabbamitta, thank you so much for translating Bhante’s wonderful Dhamma talk! You are our hero for doing this delicate and difficult task. The experience of listening to a translated Dhamma talk is simply electrifying.
Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
(…and now I know that “hunk” is “Adonis”. . Most excellent!)
Thanks so much for coming to Belgium, Bhante @sujato! And it’s hard to describe my appreciation for everyone who made this retreat possible, including @sabbamitta and Ven @Vimala. It was magical.
Just as a nice aside: The place has a long standing history of spiritual practice. It goes back to a Christian Saint called Saint-Jean l’Agneau (St. John the lamb, because of his peaceful character) in the 7th century. He is said to have been a great meditator, and even the frogs respected his meditation and kept silent in order not to disturb him!
In the 1980s a Tibetan center has been established as one of the first in Europe. We felt very warmly welcomed by their organization!
I have a folder of all the 25 mp3s totaling 749.8 MB. I think they can be put somewhere, at some point, but will have to see about the specifics.
For those at an “almost wetting their pants” level of keen there’s always youtube-dl via which the audios from the playlist can be extracted at a couple of different sizes.
. Most excellent!)
And it’s hard to describe my appreciation for everyone who made this retreat possible, including 
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This is Dutch which I am very bad at!!! 
My bad!
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