ANDAR COM CONSCIÊNCIA
Cristine Takuá
06 de junho de 2024
Art: Fabiano Kuaray
Ero Tori ('Make consciousness arise)
Ero Tori Tori
Ero Ta kua (Make the sound of knowledge reach afar)
Ero Ta kua ta kua….
When we feel the teachings transmitted by the masters of knowledge, we realise that we are guided to learn how to place ourselves in the world, in relationship with everything and everyone around us. All beings have a deep interaction with the great web of life, from the moment they bloom in this world. We humans are imperfect beings, but we are capable of a transformation in order to reach Arandu, the sensitive wisdom of feeling our own shadow. But to do this, we have to be willing to walk consciously, feeling the sound of knowledge, which enables us to see beyond appearances.
Children are sensitive beings, they observe every meaning of things. I have often seen children questioning adults for their contradictory attitudes. Reaching consciousness and walking consciously involves overcoming the contradiction in daily actions. I feel and see bees, ants, dogs, chickens and turtles with much more balanced sensibility and conscious actions than many humans.
The great mystery of life lies in going through the portal of what our eyes can see and diving into the infinite world of networks that connect the knowledge and practices which are the access codes to understanding. During the many years I taught in a school, I always encouraged my students to feel and be conscious of their awareness when walking, talking and manifesting themselves in the world. I wasn't always understood by them or by some leaders, who always thought I was trying to talk politics. What? Politics?
What might the politics of our own yards be if not to respect all life forms? The mountains, the rivers, the ants and the agoutis. Sowing the seeds of micro-politics is an enchanting but challenging endeavour. There have been centuries of deterioration of the Teko Porã, the good and beautiful way of Being in a territory. Walking consciously means allowing yourself to practise this delicate and sophisticated ancestral technology, the Good Living.
Photo: Anna Dantes
Since I left/was taken out of the conventional classroom, curiously, I've met children everywhere I've been, in workshops, conversation circles and experiences. Listening to them and perceiving the way they conceive the relationship between things, I am amazed at the ability children have to walk consciously, to feel the sound of everything that surrounds them.
Children should be leaders in this world of so many unmemorised and unconscious humans!
Centuries have passed and our humanity has enslaved plants, fish and mountains in the name of delusional reason, which has come to judge and buy/discard everything that doesn't meet the established standards. Concerned with development, order and progress, human adults create laws and wage wars.
Meanwhile, children all over the world are observing this out-of-sync situation and taking a stand regarding the ethics that permeate our involvement with life, rather than the development of living beings.
What ethics surround your everyday relationships?
In order to walk consciously and reach the sound of the understanding of things we must be silent and listen more to the children.
Photo: Vhera Poty