| I say fed
because I have never lacked a dish of food on the table or something to
drink, and I’ve shared in their cultures - in the way they understand their
Cosmo vision, their music, their love of life, and… also their agonies
many times.
My grandpa used to say the young souls suffer most the
consequences of not having understood the Universal truths because they
are still trapped within their egos.
LYA:
What are some of your favorite teachings and lessons?
Inti:
There’s a famous _expression that I like to repeat when teaching that says,
as my grandpa used to say, “The night goes after the day,” and vice
versa. Or, “What goes around comes around,” as you probably know
it. It measns everything goes around, the circle has to be completed, and
that is the circle of life. The Earth is round, and she goes around her
husband, Taita Inti, Father Sun. You are born and die, as a plant gives
its fruit. If that fruit wants to be reproduced, it has to die and leave
a seed, doesn’t it? So my grandpa used to say, “If you want to understand
the Great Spirit, sometimes you have to die and be reborn.” And that’s
like changing old clothes for new clothes, right? One of the great lessons
I’ve received from him, which I have preached for many years, is the
following: “Do not dictate anything to anyone, do not impose anything
on anyone, and do not criticize anything to anyone, because neither you
nor anyone else has that right. Only the one who made you has that right.”
If you follow this, you are saying, “Come to me, I accept you exactly
as you are.” And maybe even the ones who offend or don’t love you…
You can teach them to have unconditional compassion as well, because that
elevates your energies and synchronizes you with the frequencies of the
Great Spirits.
When my grandpa
taught me these things, he said to me “Walk in your shoes, speak your
truth, and follow your path.” It means, don’t be there repeating and
repeating to make your point, be followed, be believed. Because none can
walk in our shoes but ourselves, no one knows the exact truth of our heart
but ourselves. It often happens that there’s someone who crosses me in
the path. And we can walk together along the way, can’t we? Along the way,
but without interfering, because one’s truth is different from the other’s.
LYA:That’s
a very beautiful concept. In Australia where you teach, do the people accept
these concepts?
Inti:
It’s very well known that in the Australian continent, human life has been
present for more than a hundred thousand years. And man, no matter how
primitive he is, has always tried to connect himself with something greater.
This aboriginal man has always seen himself connected with Earth’s forces.
This connection has always been both intellectual and very spiritual. They
knew when to plant seeds, when the rain was coming, and when they didn’t
have to work the soil. They didn’t know the names of the months as we know
them, nor did they conceive that the Earth took 365 days to go around the
sun. But in an extraordinary way there was a spiritual connection with
it. That is exactly what modern man has lost, because we have always tried
to impose our concepts on other people who had superior knowledge. The
Mayan for example. They created the most perfect calendar that a modern
civilization can create, right? They discovered writing thousands of years
ago. Also the Aztecs. When Cortez invaded Tonochtitlán, he found
libraries with books. They weren’t as refined as ours, but they were books,
there were libraries… and Cortez burned them.s
LYA:
Like the companies destroying the rainforests here. What would you say
to them?
Inti:
We can’t deny that we are walking on the stomach of our true mother which
is the Earth. We can’t deny that Mama Pacha and Taita Inti are omnipresent,
because they are in every second of our lives, they are the ones who provide
us life. If I want the warmth of my father Taita Inti, I only say to him,
“Here
I am, Taita Inti, thank you for your warmth, thank you for producing the
photosynthesis to make the plants grow, to make me grow.” And the same
to Mama Pacha, Mother Earth. She never denies me anything. She gives me
everything she has – rivers, seas, woods, everything that belongs to her,
every second of my life. They are here and they tell me they love me unconditionally,
whether I do good or wrong. Nobody is going to refute that the Sun is up
there, and the Mother Earth is participating with me here. The moment I
go and destroy the woods, poison the rivers, and do what I want against
my mother, I wouldn’t be capable of survival. How can a man in his rationality
cut off the arms of his mother? Cut holes in the stomach of his mother?
Give poison to his mother? That is what I don’t understand. But it is very
easy for most people to excuse themselves through an intermediary, such
as dogmatic institutions.
LYA:What
is your hope for the human race?
Inti:
I hope that one way or another we try to solve our problems with peace.
This would be Eden, any culture, any city. I hope man’s conscience changes
and keeps on growing.. Quietly the sun extinguishes, or we blow ourselves
in pieces. And then not even the millions of Gods that live can save us.
It’s that simple. But when we enter that superior state of thinking, we
start to change. Little by little, as a baby who has to crawl first, until
he can learn to stand up and walk. I believe that… I do have much optimism
that humanity, in some moment, will elevate its conscience so it can survive.
LYA:Thank
you for sharing your wisdom.
Inti:
You’re welcome. May the Great Spirit always guide your steps and be the
accomplice of your most intimate hopes. So then, one way or another, you
help our brothers and sisters of this planet to awaken.
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