Reflections

Learning Series ~4: The Upgrade

Sometimes you don’t see the ball coming straight at your face until it hits you straight in the face. Correction: not sometimes — almost always. The art of a well-aimed blow. The path dissociates itself from the one walking it. I had had so little time to stop that I hadn’t noticed it, but now the trail I was on was going uphill. I hadn’t realized it, but it had become so steep that it looked like stone cliffs with no visible path at first glance. Correction, it didn’t look

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The Spiritual Path

The fact that we live in a world that is essentially mutable and ever-changing applies to everything. And so it applies as well to our spiritual paths and searches. In the end, it looks more like walking for a while, drifting off course, falling, trusting, returning, finding, connecting, getting confused again, realizing how wrong you were, becoming frustrated, getting angry about it, then getting angry for being angry—and after some time, realizing that you are lost again…

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The Miracle of Surrender

Opening our eyes entails responsibilities and sacrifices whose costs are higher than living in «stupidity», ignorance, and a world of placebo effects. Some things stop being interesting, and some friends and contexts do too. You begin to choose different things, you become more aware of where you place your energy, and you grow more selective. Everyday habits, automatisms, and routines change. You make choices again; you take new paths. Those choices are not easy, but somet

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First time: A story about daring.

Almost always, the most wonderful things are made by small people in small places who, trembling with fear down to their very marrow, decide to step out of their own patterns and choose, with great courage, to make brave decisions. Story of the inner child. Yesterday, for the first time, I read something of my own out loud in front of more than 4 people, and the challenging part wasn’t reading something I had written, but doing it in front of 50 people, with a huge spotlight

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Learning Series~ 2: The Island of Koh Phangan and the "misfortunes" of life.

I didn’t want to leave this paradise. Sometimes it happens while traveling. When we feel comfortable, it’s hard to move on. “Comfort” in Asia isn’t something you come across every day, and whil e traveling you start to truly value the small things. In this case, I was in Koh Phangan, Thailand. A little hippie island where everyone comes to “heal,” practice yoga, and connect with themselves. I had found a wooden hut with a small balcony that opened to nature. It had a kitchen

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Learnings.

Learnings are curious things. The greatest lessons don’t come dressed as lessons. They usually disguise themselves as challenges, obstacles, disappointments, problems, and confusion. That’s how they teach us pulling us out of the comfort of what we already know, leading us into unfamiliar territory, the kind we never choose to enter simply because we don’t like it, because it makes us uncomfortable. Sometimes, they catch us off guard,beyond plans, beyond control, beyond expec

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The Dalai Lama's Blessing

It had been three months since I arrived in Dharamsala. My visa was about to expire, and I had to leave India soon. I had tried many times to secure a public audience with His Holiness. I had sent several emails, but each one had been denied for various reasons. After insisting for a while, I realized that arguing with a monk behind a computer to secure a spot was pulling me away from the true essence of the experience. So, I let it go, accepting that if it was meant to hap

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The teachings of the Dalai Lama

I woke up at 6 am, it was still dark. I grabbed my mala —my Buddhist rosary—and an old radio that would allow me to listen to the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan words in Spanish. I walked there. My “home” is almost at the corner of the temple—just a two-minute walk down a little street, the perfect amount of time to connect inwardly with what you’re about to witness. It was 6:30 am and it felt early, but the main street was already buzzing with movement: Buddhist monks, locals drinking

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What do I like so much about India?

I got food poisoning four times in India and three more times in Asia, with hospitals, antibiotics, feelings of near-death, and everything in between. Spicy foods and Asian bacteria are almost lethal to me. I would eat every new meal and every unknown fruit as a gift from the hands of each local. I would love to relax and not have to overthink where everything comes from, but I know well that it could kill me. The easy things always seem difficult for me. So, I can’t help bu

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