Spreading Andean wisdom

Origen

 

Origen took place at Learnlife Barcelona with a very special guest, Calixto Suarez, indigenous Arhuaco from the Sierra Nevada, Colombia. Calixto spoke to us at the “Origin to the Horizon” meeting about the development of education and individual growth in his community. Sharing that from the beginning the essence of learning goes hand in hand with respect for the environment, human connection and individual development as a tool for the entire community to live more in harmony with themselves and with The Mother Earth. You can find a translated transcript of Calixto's talk below.

Currently, the native communities of Colombia feel that their commitment is to take care of humans and the world, watching over nature, connection and harmony between all living beings. You can find more information about his projects, objectives and philosophy as a spokesperson for the Arhuacos on his website. Origen was a session that united contrasts of generations and ideologies, through reflection on knowledge and education. We also set a space of time for a sharing round to happen, so that everyone could listen to each other.

Calixto focused his talk on respect for ancient traditions, as part and center of the universe. Also about wisdom and respect for the elderly and our obligation to protect Mother Earth like a great house
— Pedro R. (89 years)
We must act and be congruent with the earth, without individual egos. May the education of boys and girls be in tune. This is how we guarantee synergetic growth with the environment
— Marcela M. (41 years)

Transcription

[eng]

They begin to tell about what information each world has, so there we talk to him about birds, animals, reptiles, sea animals, stones, all of this, but if they don't want to, we don't tell them anything, but respect, If so, then we teach them that the animals of the world do interesting work to harmonize the planet.

For example, the birds that migrate from one place to another do the rituals to harmonize the earth, where many birds from different parts come together in one place, that is the place of connection, so we respect, but after they do these rituals, we are going to see if they have left some feathers, if they have left feathers with that we use it as a material to thank life, we hardly even kill the animals for that reason, even the panthers do these exercises talking about biodiversity, so we teach them all these principles of values ​​of nature, but the most important is that the child is always with himself, the human value and respect the rest and also the values ​​of life, take care of this, take care of our minds, take care of myself.

Now in recent times we are very concerned about global warming, climate change, all of these we cannot talk about one thing but everything, we talk about the duties and rights, if the earth is giving me food that is a right that the earth has and my duty is, my duty is to care. take care of life, take care of water, at least feel that one is walking on the earth because we are connected and thank, thank life, those are the principles of values ​​that we still try to preserve, and that we continue in that way, but it's not easy, because in the sense that the system is in every corner, I'm not complaining, the communities on that scale, the spiritual leaders come together to comply with that natural law.

Natural law is to understand that the earth is the law of origin, the water is the law of origin, the wind is the law of origin, which has not transformed anything, the human is the law of origin, there is no transformation or anything, if not, there is , then comply that this is so, the law comply with the law of origin, and the trees too, the crops too, we don't have to transform or anything, but because it loses information when we feed are foods that come from that transformation we don't have to same information that feeds us the presence, we disconnect, how many things are important to us, and now when the mentality, the mind, the thought, if I begin to learn to build from the mind, I build very beautiful things, there is no need to fight with our mind but as he observed and how I use it in my mind, when there are fears, well, something is telling me and what I have to do with that fear, sit down to dialogue with fear and find how beautiful it is within fear, and to understand that then you I have to go to my value, to my essence, to my own essence that unites us to everything, I don't talk much about cultural forms, but the meaning of the forms that unites us to all humanity, the meaning of the forms is where the light or the creator, or God that is what unites us, I understand that evangelization did not speak to us before, evangelization is valuing what you have and valuing what I have this is evangelization then they colonized they colonized I mean you are worth nothing and they colonize , we do not want them to colonize or colonize us but from the value, the value that you have the value that I have, because from there to share that is what we seek and that is what the path is. Why? Because each person each individual has their own values ​​and potential to form us and transform the world and that is what we are asking for and that is important.

 
 

[cast]

Empiezan a hablarle que información tiene cada mundo, entonces ahí le hablamos de los pájaros, de los animales, de los reptiles, animales del mar, de las piedras, de todo esto, pero si no quieren no les decimos nada, pero respeta, es así, entonces les enseñamos que los animales del mundo hacen trabajos interesantes para armonizar el planeta.

Por ejemplo los pájaros que emigran de un lugar a otro ellos hacen los rituales para armonizar la tierra, donde se juntan muchos pájaros de diferentes partes en un sitio ese es el lugar de conexión, entonces respetamos, pero después de que ellos hacen estos rituales, nosotros vamos a ver si han dejado algunas plumas, si han dejado plumas con eso usamos como un material para agradecer la vida, casi ni matamos los animales por esa razón, incluso los pantera hacen estos ejercicios hablando de la biodiversidad, entonces le enseñamos todos estos principios de valores de la naturaleza, pero la más importante es que el niño siempre esté consigo mismo, el valor humano y respetar lo demas y tambien los valores de la vida cuidar esto, cuidar nuestras mentes, cuidarme a mí mismo.

Ahora en los últimos tiempos estamos muy preocupados por el calentamiento global, el cambio climàtico, todo estos no podemos hablar de una cosa sino de todo, hablamos de los deberes y derechos, si la tierra me esta dando alimentaciòn ese es un derecho que la tierra tiene y mi deber que es, mi deber es cuidar. cuidar a la vida, cuidar al agua, al menos sentir que uno està caminando encima de la tierra porque estamos conectados y agradecer, agradecer a la vida, esos son los principios de valores que todavía tratamos de conservar, y que sigamos de esa manera, pero no es fàcil, por que en el sentido que el sistema está en todos los rincones, no me estoy quejando, las comunidades en esa escala, los jefes espirituales reúnen para que cumplan esa ley natural.

Ley natural es entender que la tierra es ley de origen, el agua es ley de origen, el viento es ley de origen, que no ha transformado nada, el humano es ley de origen, no hay transformación ni nada, si no que es hay, entonces cumplir que esto es así, la ley cumplir la ley de origen, y los árboles también, los cultivos también, no hay que transformar ni nada, sino porque pierde la información cuando alimentamos son alimentos que provienen de esa transformaciòn no hay que la misma información que nos alimenta la presencia, nos desconectamos, cuantas cosas son importantes para nosotros, y ahora cuando la mentalidad, la mente, el pensamiento, si yo empiezo a aprender a construir desde la mente, construyo cosas muy bonitas, no hay que luchar con nuestra mente sino como observó y como lo uso en mi mente, cuando hay miedos pues algo me está diciendo y que tengo que hacer con ese miedo, sentarse a dialogar con el miedo y encontrar lo bonito que está dentro del miedo, y para entender eso pues tengo que irme a mi valor a mi esencia, a mi propia esencia que nos une a todo, yo no hablo mucho de las formas culturales sino el sentido de las formas que nos une a toda la humanidad el sentido de las formas es donde está la luz o el creador, o dios eso es lo que nos une, entiendo que antes no nos hablaba la evangelizacion, evangelizacion es valorar lo que tu tienes y valorar lo que yo tengo este es la evangelización entonces colonizaron colonizaron osea tu no vales nada y colonicen, nosotros no queremos que nos colonicen ni colonizar sino desde el valor, el valor que ustedes tienen el valor que yo tengo, pues desde hay a compartir eso es lo que nosotros buscamos y eso es lo que es el camino. Por qué? Porque cada persona cada individuo tiene sus propios valores y potencialidad para formarnos y transformar el mundo y eso es lo que estamos pidiendo y eso es importante.

[...] The animals of the world do an interesting job, to harmonize the planet.

— Calixto Surez