reflections

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!!!