Way towards being present is through gift. To give away surplus, to give away distraction. To give attention. In order to see life and all it offers, continually, as a gift, and so to live in joy, can be achieved only through doing the same one expects of the world and the others – by showering them in gifts, by giving space, giving first without expectation. Then, presence reveals itself without effort.
“Taussig wrote that the perception of the shaman as the creator of order from chaos mirrors the romantic notions of the Western imagination rather
It is perhaps one of many paradoxes of psychedelic use, that what conservative majority within our societies considers as drug escapism into hedonism, and away
When you ask Shipibo maestros for guidance, inevitably, no matter the specifics of the issue, the answer will be simple and come down to CONCENTRATION.
Why, they ask, you keep drinking ayahuasca, if you fail at living by the lessons shown? And why do you keep practicing yoga if
If not just our ayahuasca philosophy, but in general whole approach to spiritual work were to be simplifed, compacted into a neat phrase, a
“Discipline is about giving up the search for entertainment.” These words from Chögyam Trungpa are really what way of the dieta is about, but