THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE
-  Inner Mongolia Wulanbutong Horseback Traverse

You come to us
from another world

From beyond the stars
and void of space.
Transcendent, Pure,
Of unimaginable beauty,
Bringing with you
the essence of love

You transform all
who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns,
troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence,
Bringing joy
to ruler and ruled
To peasant and king

You bewilder us
with your grace.
All evils
transform into
goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love
in earth and sky
in heart and soul
of every being.
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Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again.

Length : 5 days, 4 nights 

Something about the Spiritual World of the Mongols:

What distinguishes the Mongols is their devotion to and love of Nature, the far-reaching scope of their spiritual awareness, unending mental curiosity and nearly limitless endurance and quest for excellence in every endeavor. Since Chingis Khan is the Founder of the Mongol nation, we use his name as a starting point, and see where we get if we try to compare the qualities of water with those of the Chingis-Khanite Mongols. Afterwards we shall look more closely on their thoughts and beliefs.

The meaning of "Chingis" is "large body of water," "ocean," or "huge quantities of water." Considering what we know about the symbolism and spiritual universe of the Mongols, it seems probable that Temuchin chose to call himself by that name on the ground that the water is the strongest; the only unconquerable, but at the same time the most changeable and also the softest of all substances. Its peaceful, harmonic, imperturbable stillness can in a moment change into a frenzied daemon of waves shattering to pieces everything standing in its way, this is characteristically accomplished by the water's utilizing the forces existing in its environment.

The water is also capable of showing unyielding hardness; even the strongest person will be beaten to death by a single blow when falling onto the surface of water from a height of 15 meters. In the next second it shows a new quality: if one grabs a sword or an axe to beat the water, it will softly, easily and graciously withdraw; the water cannot be beaten. Immediately when the sword is removed, the water is unscathed. You can burn water, then it will only temporarily evaporate, and thereupon infallibly return. If one tries to push away or shut out the water, it will soon find a new path and there break every resistance with multiplied force. The water can withdraw, evade, disappear, but always, indefatigably, it returns again and again.

The water is thus invulnerable and ubiquitous, it unites within itself all opposing qualities, hence it is not limited by any of them. In this way it possesses incomparable flexibility, softness and hardness without rigidity, it can therefore anywhere, anytime, adapt itself to any new circumstance, then in a split-second completely unexpected take on a new quality. Chances are that Chingis called himself "chingis" for the very reason that he wanted himself and his people to adopt and use the unique qualities of water in their actions.

This extraordinary intuitive adaptability, flexibility and eerie perspicacity permeated their whole nature, all their thought and actions. All this tells us what water represents; simultaneous strength and softness, and it possesses indefatigable, invincible strength because it possesses its sensitive, adaptable softness. The insight in this is a main constituent of the secret of the Mongols.

According to Mongol philosophy, the Universe only apparently consists of separate entities functionally independent of all other parts. Interdependence and interconnectedness were a tangible matter of fact for the Mongols. This perception is perhaps not too original, but the Mongols went further: They knew that Cosmos is built upon principles that in turn are the fundamentals of their countless manifestations. Every part of the Cosmos is therefore a microcosmos in an indefinite series, meaning that every component carries within it a blueprint of all other constituents of an intrinsically inseparable whole, as a consequence they together constitute an interconnected web resembling a giant hologram. Because of this hologrammatic organization, the uninhibited, intuitive mind has the opportunity to derive limitless knowledge from careful observation of a small number of phenomena, as every segment or facet informs simultaneously about all of them.

Herein is found the source of the fundamental dictum of the mystic, saying that all possible answers we carry within ourselves. "Know thyself."
To endeavor to perceive and interpret this information accessible to us is to develop consciousness and comprehension on a Cosmic scale. 

It was not until the advent of Chingis Khan that the Mongols collectively drew together their combined human, that is their physical, mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual resources to establish the largest world empire the world has ever seen, and accomplished the great task to realize the potentials of contact between the parts of the world the Mongol Empire, stretching from the Pacific to the Baltic and including the great Moslem states of Asia, comprised. It is possible to discern in the life work of Temuchin and his Mongols the undertaking of knitting the worlds of East and West together, which means establishing and broadening human contact, dialogue, fraternization and ultimately the establishment of the conscious brotherhood of all people, a unity in the diversity which the Great Mongol always honored and encouraged. The history of the Mongols is a prime example of the principle that as long as our actions are in harmony with the larger forces, they will be endorsed by Eternal Heaven, as Chingis Khan himself would have put it.