Whenever we are in the present. But the present, made me in the past and where I am.

Sometimes a word makes us change, we don’t even realize it at the time.

Well, in 2010, I was doing my PhD at LSE which was about Israel and Palestine and I dropped out. I was treated so well in Israel and Palestine and I don’t even know Arabic and Hebrew. I even had to take Arabic and Hebrew classes. But I didn’t know how I could have peace.

At my college I had a friend from Israel who had refused to join the Army

In Israel, young men have to be 3 years old, and women have to be 2 years old. My friend had refused to join the army. He was imprisoned for a year and asked and said he wouldn’t go, so he was imprisoned inside Palestine. They thought he would change his mind, but in 2 years in prison inside Palestine he learned Arabic.

Well, my friend was doing his doctorate about Africa, and I told him that I had seen the Israeli army inside Palestine and I had seen children being arrested and I was shocked. I went to tell him, as he knew about the injustices, I told him

“But if you speak Hebrew and also know how to speak Arabic, you can help”

And he told me

“But if you’re from a farm family, why don’t you do something about indigenous people?”

Well, I left my PhD for India and you understand where we are from because the internal prison is complex. I think I started to understand that social problems are always more outside than their society. Outside of society, it becomes clearer what has internal value.

I like India because in Dharam Sala there are Tibetan courses, that is, courses that don’t focus on material things. There I met Tibetans who are not tied to a society, their value is not fixed, it is impermanent.

This year I met Rafa and the conversation began to talk about not knowing ourselves, and our illness. Well, I asked about the college. And she told me it’s biology.

Good when I told
about my dream about trees, and she told me about her studies about how trees have feelings.

Wow, when she told me about a study, I went to see it, and I even heard the sound of the tree. I cried with emotion. Plants cry. Plants even listen. Some of the studies I saw were in Israel.

From the day I heard and saw the study I started touching the trees. As well as love for the world.

Well, because I wanted to tell you both. Because my friend from Israel who defends Palestine, and I cannot be critical of our reality like the Trees, and the indigenous people are being killed.

But one word made the agent wake up.

I can avoid reality television whenever I want to demonstrate one. The only thing I can see, in my reality, is that the sea came almost close to home, and I can’t fight the sea.

Now what I can do is admire nature, and I can even plant to try to balance nature. It is observing how a nation is a form of prison, of distancing itself from others.

Any struggle is to free ourselves from our mind. It’s holding us back from compassion.

Just as my Russian friend does not defend his country’s war. As a man I met last year who is in the Czech army, he could perhaps be sent to defend Ukraine. He explained Zelensky’s hypocritical story to me.

Just as many Jewish friends don’t like Netanyahu, and few Palestinians are from Hamas

So, like my Jewish friend who defends Peace, like my Russian friend who doesn’t want to destroy Ukraine, I would never go to war, and I understand how indigenous people have always respected nature.

So I stay close to the Trees, I try to hear their peace. All we can do is plant ourselves on the street, at home and know that our fight is to understand that our born war is meaningless. It was always about economics

Our destruction of our land is not about the nation, it is about the selfish people of money, and they don’t even realize how all of nature is changing, everyone in this world.

I think this is when we should be together with nature. So we can live. Because if we don’t help the earth and nature, human beings won’t even exist

Love,
Jules

My city is São Paulo, or rather I was born here and my parents live here. São Paulo is a very important city in Brazil.

But I always ran away from my city. Even though it’s a city, people like to have work and money.

This is where it makes us feel like we are outside of ourselves. I guess it as where it does to describe to another. Like the important cities of the world. Like NewYork, Amsterdam, which are not the capital of the country. In other words, it is far from nature.

I’ve been here for 2 days. As soon as I became desperate, I began to feel something that made me observe, and the Silence became weak, and I heard that here I was articulated and declining who we are. It’s not about keeping silent about meditating, it’s about making your mind think of various thoughts without silencing your soul. That’s how I felt on the first day in Sao Paulo.

It makes me observe, because so many people don’t even want to observe human beings. So many people I see looking at people in despair. If I say good morning, they look outside

Worse was hearing people talk about their fear of being robbed, broken, and killed.

So it made me think about the philosophies, I teach drawing of Taoism. It made me observe that with any word we need to see it another way.

We have to weaken the fact that reality comes from television. Those conversations I heard yesterday made me focus desperately. My battery ran out, and André said he would arrive at 5. At 6 I started to get angry, then afraid that it had disappeared.

To make matters worse, my battery died, and I didn’t know André’s number by heart, and my parents are in Europe

So at my parents’ house, I went looking for everything negative. I went to see that it was my room and it was all my brother’s

After loading I forgot the password. So at 9 pm I asked the Doorman if I could call my parents. I knew it was very late in Italy but I called.

My father was worried that I was nervous. He called André and told me he was working and was fine.

Well, happiness came and suddenly my anger came.

I went to look for a massage at night, it turned into washing my hair with a massage. I asked the woman what to do to calm her mind. She said she knows how to give a head massage. Temporary peace came.

When we slept, I was happy. When I went to call my parents the next day, they knocked me down, saying that I was no longer capable of doing anything like I used to be. ,etc . The revolt returned.

Well, the revolt returned, but I thought that from everything I’ve been through, people don’t devalue me

So, I didn’t want to do what I was doing, I remembered the people who have peace within themselves, and shared it with others.

I remembered the people I met around the world for peace, André’s family came, who always returned all the spirituality of nature. Cecilia’s luck made me one of my new friends who aren’t stuck in the material, Ana Paula for Buddhism, Paulo for Tantra.

So, it made me understand that this fall made me find seeing.

In my coma, the Goddess, or Tara or my mind said “Do you want to live?” I said “Yes” and she asked me why. I said “I wanted it because of my grandmother, and my boyfriend at that time.

Saturday, when they will ask me if I was afraid of a coma, of death.

And it made me think, I’m not afraid of having another coma and death.

I love living, but this question why because I want to live.

Today I would say “Yes, I like living, because of the ability to evolve my anger, my mind and open my ego and continue to be compassionate to everyone and give back to nature. “

Only through the fall do we see the beauty of Life.

So these days I met Fatume, who is our friend’s mother. I started talking and she told me that she came from Lebanon, having fled her country.

The conversation was long and she asked me what life was about.

I was quiet and it took a while for me to say it. “I say I don’t believe in God”

She said “You don’t like a word, but it’s just a word. I used to be a Buddhist, but I still call it Allah. You can call it any word. Think it’s love. I see that in you.”

Wow, tears came out. That touched me. Because it was the tear of love. Like this
We look into the eyes of the soul.

São Paulo is just a word, our vision is love.

With love,
Jules