Adventurer – Critic – Photographer
I had to go to the consulate of Surinam to inquire about the visa requirements for European citizens. They opened the doors at 09:00 and I had to wait for about an hour. Just opposite was the social and health institution of French Guyana and the queue from both sides of the entrance was enormous. ...
The rainforest was the same but everything else was quite different. The streets were organized, sign posted and all asphalted, had names, traffic lights and police control. The population was primarily black and spoke French. I had decided yesterday to park the car and sleep in the commercial area at the entrance of the city. ...
So then let's consider first of all what is a mind in the grip of vicious circles. Well, one of the most obvious instances that we all know is the phenomenon of worry. The doctor tells you that you have to have an operation. And that has been set up so that automatically everybody worries ...
Borders are always critical and decisive to me with respect to the continuation of the planned route. At any border I could encounter any reason for delay or rejection which would result in changing my planned tour. Bureaucracy, documents, my appearance, there are many reasons to create situations. Before departure the owner reminded me of ...
Nothing indicated in the morning that today would be the first really adventurous, difficult and critical day of the journey. I had located a small village just off the highway and decided this to be today’s destiny at about 300 km from Macapá. I got quickly out of the city and continued on what I ...
With every day I travel I get back bit by bit my feeling of sleep. I have to be fair and mention at this stage that I had been using sleeping pills for the last six month due to sleeping problems. I will not spend time to explain the process of sleep but I am ...
For a change, the location of the night’s rest place on the ferry, open fresh air and bathroom convenient downstairs, made a small difference and I had the feeling of sleep. Space to put your legs the way you want was a new experience after some time now. The cost for this experience was, due ...
The humidity is present, especially early in the morning. I am having problems with the camera, probably due to the extreme bright light and the humidity and the lack of my knowledge of the menu and all the options that I might have to change and use under the given circumstances. The drive, still or ...
Before the city woke up completely, I did and went straight to the ferry, which would take me from São Luis to the other side of the quite big bay. This would save me to drive back the 100 km on the bad road, maybe even worse, as it was Monday morning and business definitely ...
My Soul is not contained within the limits of my Body - My body is contained within the limitlessness of my Soul. I've often said that I wish people can realize all their dreams, wealth and fame. So that they can see it is not where you are going to find your sense of completion. I can tell ...
I changed location three times, first due to mosquitos, second due to music noise and third after midnight due to heat. I ended up opposite the latest construction site of Cyrela. I got up and enjoyed the silence, silence of a big city on a Sunday morning. I am sure poetically and philosophically there are ...
Sleep is still very complicated; the time you use for rest is the same as the time you might use for sleep and finally it is the body itself that gets what he needs. I think the body does not really need sleep, it is the mind. My mind is on a high speed and ...
I would soon realize, that as good as the planning and the road maps are, that reality turns out to be different, from very different to slightly different, roads from weather affected to simply not existing or disappeared. The beginning of the today’s tour was very panoramic again and reminded me of the impressions I ...
I decided to continue working for a bit. A full day just on the beach at place I have been before, did not make too much sense to me and at this time of the day, in the morning, the senses are pretty sharp. So I decided to listen to my sharp senses. I realized ...
This Is Water: 'Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life' is an essay by David Foster Wallace. This essay covers subjects including the difficulty of empathy, the importance of being well adjusted, and the essential lonesomeness of adult life. David Foster Wallace’s speech suggests that the overall purpose of higher education is ...
I had not intentions, no spirit and no enthusiasm to actually enter the mega-city of Fortaleza. Not only because I have been in Fortaleza before. My refusal was more because after so much silence and peace in the desert of the northeast of Brazil, I was simply not ready, I did not want to. I ...
The Mirador was a nice place to open my eyes. I had rested. I went to the supermarket and had an Aquarius and a turkey sandwich, actually two. [videos file="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiROxDLBJBg" width="" height=""] It was still very early and I had only a short drive to get to Canoa Quebrada where I already had been before, for a weekend. ...
The Mirador was a nice place to open my eyes. I had rested. I went to the supermarket and had an Aquarius and a turkey sandwich, actually two. Prepared by myself, I just simply bought turkey ham and two French bread, opened the bread and put the turkey ham in. Turkey sandwich sounds sophisticated, something ...
Thrilled with the transformation of Consciousness and the mutual interdependence of all things, Watts was a generous interpreter of Eastern religions and the quest for meaning in the West. Whether exploring the myth of ourselves based on our separation from others, the nature of selfishness, the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, or the illusion of the ...
I had to change place during the night from the beach to the salt installations at the entrance of the village. Two handful of boys from the neighborhood turned up and I wanted to prepare myself well for the today's leave. Not that they were noisy, no, there was something else. I felt that it ...
A good night sleep was again a problem. The car does not give me the comfort, my head does not give me peace and a handful of boys from the neighborhood turned up to continue the party from wherever they had started the night before. And as I imagined that Shit happens would turn life ...
No sleep, instead conversation in my head. Got up, went to the village, bought an Aquarius, took some pictures and went on. Eight years ago the asphalted road ended at the end of the village, this was still the case. Time and technology, evolution and development were yet to come to beyond the village. I ...
I mean, you know me, getting up early. Shit happens. Shit happens once a year. No, Shit will happen every day from now on. Shit happens will turn to Reality happens during the whole journey. You wake up when workers go to work and the cars or motorcycles are passing by, but latest when sun ...
Due to having scheduled a meeting the day before, I had to get up very early in the morning. I mean, you know me, getting up early. Shit happens. Shit happens once a year. I packed up the car. I blew out the candle in front of the Buddha statue, which was mysteriously burning for ...
This is therefore to say that the transformation of Human Consciousness through meditation is frustrated so long as we think of it in terms as something that I myself can bring about, by some sort of wangle, by some sort of gimmick. Because you see, that leads to endless games of spiritual one-up-manship. And of guru ...