Oi!
So it’s November 23, 2009 and I feel like I am exactly where I am supposed to be. I have really begun to see the benefits and joys of meditation and yoga. I have realized that this journey to and around Mozambique was also a journey to myself. It’s amazing to really find and feel the peace that we are all born with; this peace that has been so clouded by the busy commotion of society and the mind. My stay in Mozambique has been interesting on all sorts of levels but I would love to point out that it’s really shocking to see what influences American culture has had on the developing world. The most prevalent influence is seen in the media and by what people chose to wear and say. They are words and media that are so common in America but are just said with a different accent by a similar but different people. I would also like to ask what developing really means. If a developed country is one where someone can drive thru a McDonalds (in the words of Marco Benavides) and enjoy the laziness this comes with than I am not sure if I would want this beautiful land of Mozambique to become developed… If developed equals pollution and an unhealthy greed then I don’t ever want to see a McDonalds drive thru in Mozambique (although it might already exists in the larger cities). Something along the same lines as developing is the theory of evolution. What is the true benefit of technology, if any? Why are we so focused on the external evolution when we are not even aware of the internal evolution that must first take place? There is a level of consciousness that needs to be reached internationally so the wars and diseases can subside.
I believe in a world where we can all be in Peace, a world that doesn’t need the technology and infrastructure that we seem to care so much about. We must all work to leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and return to the silence of the heart… then we will have truly evolved.
Beijos!!!
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sunday, November 1, 2009
PERMACULTURE!!!!
Hello!!
This week was quite interesting. I tend to forget that I am in Africa since it’s freezing at night and it rains all day, However, the heat of today has served as a reminder. The most exciting thing that happened this week was learning about permaculture, apparently there is excellent soil to cultivate in Mozambique and all one really has to do is know what to do with the soil. So we were taught how to plant the basic foods of survival. I am really excited about this because I recently became vegetarian and was looking for a way to grow what I eat, and now I know!!! I have decided to really dedicate myself to meditation and yoga everyday as well; I’ve been reading books that speak to what meditation and yoga are all about. Therefore, I would love to share a quote I read in the book Eat. Pray. Love.,
“Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true”
If anybody is planning on sending something this is the last week you can do it for now... We are in training which is one address, after training we will have a different address. Since it takes about one month for things to get here this is the last week to send stuff for about a month... Also on this note, it helps to write religious things on the packages just to ensure their arrival... when declaring the amount don't say the things in the package are worth more than $10.
That’s all…
Beijos!!!
This week was quite interesting. I tend to forget that I am in Africa since it’s freezing at night and it rains all day, However, the heat of today has served as a reminder. The most exciting thing that happened this week was learning about permaculture, apparently there is excellent soil to cultivate in Mozambique and all one really has to do is know what to do with the soil. So we were taught how to plant the basic foods of survival. I am really excited about this because I recently became vegetarian and was looking for a way to grow what I eat, and now I know!!! I have decided to really dedicate myself to meditation and yoga everyday as well; I’ve been reading books that speak to what meditation and yoga are all about. Therefore, I would love to share a quote I read in the book Eat. Pray. Love.,
“Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true”
If anybody is planning on sending something this is the last week you can do it for now... We are in training which is one address, after training we will have a different address. Since it takes about one month for things to get here this is the last week to send stuff for about a month... Also on this note, it helps to write religious things on the packages just to ensure their arrival... when declaring the amount don't say the things in the package are worth more than $10.
That’s all…
Beijos!!!
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