CURRENT MISSION

To be present

ABOUT ME

I am a creative, buddhist, gay man with a good sense of humor. Enjoy walks through my city and the surrounding viennese woods,vineyards and those wonderful places along the old Danube and I love to share my favorite places with friends; Not the going out - party type although I love to dance. My life is rather calm at the moment;
PHILOSOPHY

the world doesn`t exist to fulfill our wishes!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far - hosting!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted several couch-surfers since I joined! I had great experiences with most of my surfers. When I have no couchsurfers around for some weeks I already have the feeling something is missing! Was great to share my flat, my thoughts, my city - especially my favorite places and discover new places myself. I always enjoy seeing my city with different eyes. Nice to have company for breakfast or to watch a DVD together. I got along with most of my guests pretty well. A bit annoying was that a few guests, who I thought where fine company didn`t even bother to write a reference afterwards but thats not tragic either! I am glad I have the opportunity to meet so many different people and I am grateful to get so much benefit out of it.

Interests

Psychology, Buddhism, Cinema,Plants, Cooking, Jogging, Swimming in the summer, pottery, arts and crafts.....

• arts
• cooking
• meditation
• crafts
• movies
• pottery
• hiking
• buddhist
• swimming
• history
• psychology
• nature
• plants
• creativity
• architecure

Music, Movies, and Books

Screwball-comedies like Midnight, The more the merrier, Lady Eve, Holiday, Bluebeard`s eight`s wife, Bringing up baby; Design for living, awful truth; Ninotschka, To be or not to be;
All about Eve; A foreign affair, Morocco, Shanghai express, Now voyager, a place in the sun, bridge on the river Kwai, wild river, barefoot in the park, baby jane, I confess, Last picture show, smiles of a summernight, Best intentions, Little big man, Midnight-cowboy,
beautiful laundrette, a thing called love,wonderboys, Dead man,Angels in america,shortbus, smoke, icestorm, brokeback mountain, eat drink man woman, secret and lies, lost in translation, a single man, far from heaven, hours, about schmidt, sideways; nixon frost, the queen,whatever works. the kings speech, searching for sugar-man, argo, keep the light on, weekend, Làmour, rien sur robert, les temps qui reste, un prophet, les roseaux sauvage, le temoin, un air de famile; les goute des autres; comme une image, Monsieur Lazhar, Jài tue ma mere, Nebraska, Boyhood, Birdman;
Clara sheller;
Six feet under, mad men, weeds, homeland, nurse Jacky, episodes, The office, Extras, Lead Ballon, getting on, boardwalk empire;
Graham Norton show;
http://www.letterboxd.com/dschinpa/

classic, jazz, soul, worldmusic, singer-songwriter, country, chanson;
some names: Ella Fitzgerald, Rufus Wainwright, Amos Lee, Teiture, Faist, Jack Johnson, Al Green, Mariza, Manu Chao, Angelique Kidjo, Ron Sexsmith, Juliette Greco, Isaak Hayes, Hank Williams, Ted Hawkins, Rodriguez, Antony and the Johnsons, Jo Stafford, Jimmy Scott, Lizz Wright, Madeleine Peyroux, Blossom Dearie, Greta Keller, Buddha Bar, gregory Porter, Aloe Blacc, Asaf Avidan, Alabama-Shakes,Mika, Maitre Gims, Vampire Weekend, Jarvis Cocker, french rap ,Pop from all decades and a lot more;

Buddhist literature especially from Chogyam Trungpa, Ponlop Rinpoche and Pema Chödren;
The books of Eduard Louis at the moment

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The eclipse in 1999; The first night in an mongolian ger (yurte); first view on the himalayas;

Teach, Learn, Share

Share my favorite places in Vienna;

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Monaco, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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