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Sometimes your dream doesn't come true and you suffer. And sometimes your dream comes true and you still suffer. After all, happiness also passes away, and suffering also passes away. Long hours and pages would not be enough to summarize what Ágnes Bara learned while living as a monk in the Far East. Ágnes says that if she had foreseen what was waiting for her during her trip to Asia - both external and internal - she would certainly not have set out. But luckily, he didn't see it, and he set off. After all, no one can ever take away those experiences, that eternal longing for existence, self and the discovery of human stories. And in the meantime, he understood: he was looking for peace and harmony in everything, even though in life both joyful and painful stories have the same right to exist. Ágnes Bara left behind a truly vibrant life, when in December 2010 she traveled to Thailand to find the clear source for practicing meditation that she started a few years back. She arrived in Bangkok without any plans, and a couple of days later her dream came true. She lived in the jungle, at a small Buddhist temple for nearly three years – where the first true inner journey of her life began. This was followed by the world of Zen temples in South Korea, and Taiwan was the final destination from where she returned home from Asia. "There I faced many of my fears - in a seemingly motionless, peaceful world. I experienced freedom - in a culture full of rules" - she says. She needed more courage to return to Southern culture than to leave for the East. But since then she integrated her experience in her everyday life. She lives a simple, quiet life, and helps people to face their fears and difficulties according to her best knowledge. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx