Decolonize Your Mind (*)

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds."

Bob Marley

Decolonize Your Mind (**)

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. 
Nobody is going to teach you your true history, 
teach you your true heroes, if they know that 
that knowledge will help set you free.” 

Assata Shakur

esta noite deixei o meu coração em Buenos Aires

La investigación 

Fotografía - Topical Press Agency

"Quem olha para fora, sonha...
 Quem olha para dentro, desperta!"

C. G. Jung

pensa por ti mesmo

sign The Free World Charter

não é bem a tua cultura que te diminui, mas a falta dela….

Aprende a pensar por ti mismo.pdf

sê tu
c'est tout

“Wabi Sabi?”

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn,


a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.


If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things,


this is the best season of your life.

Wu Men (1183-1260), translated by Stephen Mitchell

The perfection of imperfection, and the beauty in what’s aging and changing.
...everything is passing memory, all of life is just a dream as we row these boats.

“Wabi Sabi?” you ask.

It’s the Japanese term, originated from the beauty of decaying, ancient tea houses, that connotes the perfection of imperfection or the beauty of passing memory. So what better topic than transition because, at its heart, Wabi Sabi is all about transition: dwelling in the mysterious change and unfolding that’s always happening despite our human desire to have some sense of control.

What did we learn and share about transition? Here’s what I’m remembering this morning:

▪ Each moment has its message, and all we need to get through it until we arrive at the next moment.

▪ The older we get, the more skilled we get at navigating transitions without excess stress (I mean, the transition itself could be stressful, but we don’t have to pile on it fears of how we’ll get through it as much because we know we can get through it).

▪ As our bodies change and seem more limited in some physical ways, they also can lead us to other kinds of grace in stillness and motion.

▪ Sometimes when you least expect it, you can look up from your computer and see a coyote out the window.

▪ In moments of great pain when there’s nothing we can do to stop the pain, we can breathe into and through it, and make peace with whatever is happening until the pain changes into something else.

▪ Grandchildren are wonderful, but the love and bond isn’t automatic. Even this lovely transition takes time and presence.

▪ Being in the flow is what calls to us as we get older much more than accomplishing goals or crossing things off a list.

▪ Most of us love arriving at moments and times in our lives when we will have no plans.

▪ When embarking on a transition, it’s good to simply let yourself not know how you’ll feel, and then ride the waves.

▪ Our bodies are marvelous amusement parks.

▪ The permission fairy lives in all of us, and gives us full permission to live our most true life, something necessary for meaningful transitions.
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Miles vale Davis que mal acompanhado...

The Conscious Universe

"The greatest impediment to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

Daniel J. Boorstin

"The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment."
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying , Sogyal Rinpoche

O sentido da vida?

O sentido da vida?
Mas por que raio haverá de ter um sentido? Por que motivo tem tudo de ter sentido?

fosga-se....

Não te basta ser? Experiênciar cada dia, cada instânte
Lembra-te: Só tu podes apagar o teu sorriso do teu rosto. A tua Alegria pertence-te

O sentido da vida?
O sentido da vida é viver sem sentido.

A melhor resposta foi-me dada à anos pelos Monty Pithon, sem palavras mas com muitas gargalhadas.

É como andar de carro: —chegaste. primeiro que os outros. foste o mais rápido. o às da velocidade. mas não te lembras do percurso. nem o viste. pois não te dignaste a olhar para ele.

...cum catano...

Procurar o sentido da vida, parece-me... é procurar o destino desta viagem, quando na verdade o que importa é a viagem e não o destino... ...

                                      quando morreres, logo vês...

O sentido da vida? 

É o que tu quiseres que ele seja.

um mimo da TiL

Blog da TiL

wisdom for your monday

“A person who is a master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which and simply pursue their vision of excellence and grace, whatever they do, leaving others to decide whether they are working or playing. To them they are always doing both.”

-- Zen Poet

Photo 16house

Bento de Jesus Caraça

...li-a tinha para aí 14 ou 15 anos. Organizou a minha vida, ou seja, mudou-a... e ainda hoje passados 30 e tal anos continua a organizar-me quando me perco, se é que uma pessoa se pode perder... sem se encontrar... perdermo-nos não é uma coisa simples, exige cultura, saber... conhecimento e disponibilidade, tempo... uma vez perdi-me em Lisboa...
Lisboa é uma bela cidade para nos perdermos ...agora quero perder-me no campo, se conseguir... tenho tempo... lá me haverei de encontrar certamente

A flor do meu segredo

Fotografia de Jack Spencer, world watcher - nashville

Se como diz Marguerite Yourcenar nas Memórias de Adriano "A palavra escrita ensinou-me a escutar a voz humana ...", esta também me ensinou a escutar o silêncio..."...assim como as grandes atitudes imóveis das estátuas me ensinaram a apreciar os gestos. Em contrapartida, e posteriormente, a vida fez-me compreender os livros.", e o silêncio neles impresso...

"Aqueles que passam por nós, não vão sós, não nos deixam sós. Deixam um pouco de si, levam um pouco de nós"

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Anatomy of Being

“Two tendencies govern human choice and effort, the search after quantity and the search after quality.
They classify mankind. Some follow Maat, others seek the way of animal instinct”
~Ancient Kamitic Proverb~

"MAN KNOW THYSELF"

Ausar (Consciousness/Self)

“The key to all problems is the problem of consciousness.”
~Ancient Kamitic Proverb~

download pdf

The Liberator Within: The Anatomy of Being

Pedras

"Pedras no caminho? Guardo todas, um dia vou construir um castelo"

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Filosofia popular

Through The Back Door. J. Pickford & Alfred E. Green - USA 1921. The Pickford Corporation.

Costumava ouvir da tia Alice:

"As amizades são como as mamas. Há as grandes, as pequenas e as falsas"

o tio Prata acrescentava que ainda havia "os amigos da onça", os que nos fumam o tabaco

e eu acreditava e ficava feliz... e ainda hoje acredito... e sinto-me bem... talvez por isso goste de mamas grandes

cucù ^^

...silêncio porra!