Questions and Thoughts from the last two weeks of classes in Lima:
I don't know if there's hope for the future, but there is life in the present, and as long as there is life in the present that's enough.
I think you have to forget everything you have learned (or put it on a back shelf to be recovered and incorporated later) in order to really be open to someone else or another culture; because they do not come from where I come from, and their world view / structures are unique and not meant to be fit into mine.
Every moment is new, and thus we should be open in every moment to learn something new from another, even if we have known her/him for a very long time, because s/he is always changing like the rest of the world.
You can only accompany if the other person or community invites or accepts you as an acompañante. (I wasn't sure how to translate the noun version of accompany).
To profoundly listen with all of your being is to accept life as it is being presented, with fascination, interest, curiosity, surprise, and humility based in the gratefulness of being present to this moment shared with oneself or another.
How do I see myself? How do others see me? How do I think others see me?
In every moment we are social beings; we communicate something in every moment.
The "shoulds" come from society in order to teach/perpetuate the rules or how to behave and relate with others and within different environments - how to survive.
But is it worth surviving if you're not really living?
If you want to be liked/accepted then you will become who others want you to be, not who you really are.
Paz y Amor siempre