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Latin America

Mike 03

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2. Really sad. There's this supposition by people who live in wealth that everyone wants that.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 23, 2019, 12:30 PM

Sep 2019

It's just not true. I know of a Zen monastery in New York where they've grown to know complete happiness with almost nothing. They spend hours a day in silence. They see the way most people live as quite insane. But they are still activists. One of the teachers I followed left that particular Monastery and is now really fascinated by Ayuasca, but that's a topic for a different thread. I can't remember which country he takes students to, but it could be Brazil.

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Bolsonaro's lofty view of indigenous cultures: Judi Lynn Sep 2019 #1

Really sad. There's this supposition by people who live in wealth that everyone wants that. Mike 03 Sep 2019 #2

Have heard it's used in Peru, too, in the Amazon area. Probably throughout the Amazon, I'd bet. Judi Lynn Sep 2019 #3