Two Wolves
When the white man reached Turtle Island, which people now call "The United States of America," he found people there who were different from himself. They only covered their nudity where it was of practical use, and otherwise had very different customs from those known to the white man. For example, the native people of Turtle Island made no distinction between "master" and "mastered" - they only killed what they ate and lived in grateful and humble union with the greater whole.
You Are Enough
You are enough
just the way you are -
you don't have to give me anything
you don't have to say anything,
you don't have to do anything...
because I see you.
And just the way I see you
I accept you -
evaluation creates separation,
creates our downfall.
So, only if you like,
take your masksfrom your face -
others might not like to see
your true nature,
but the others
are not me.
The Teachings of Pain
I wrote the following poem in 2015. It became an important guiding star of everything I create: Never looking to take away the pain, but rather embracing it, absorbing it completely, until it transforms itself from the ashes of the burned past into a beautiful phoenix of newfound insight. Today, in my Chi Sessions, I accompany people through this process.
The Me In Between
My name is Dada, and I have been in contact with the spiritual world and its inhabitants since I was reborn into physical reality in May of 1988. For decades, I was made believe that I am sick, that something is wrong with me - until I came into contact with plant medicines and they became my master teachers.
Weeds
Often I have to laugh heartily at human-shaped words – weeds is one of them. So a herb is not a herb, say a weed, only because it eludes human control. Because it does not do what we want, it becomes an absurdity. There are many things that have become preposterous because they are uncontrollable: Pain. Death. Disease. Most people would like to destroy all of them, like the weeds that stain their garden.
Perception
Perception. A word that we use very often without being aware of its meaning; it's origin is the latin word percipere, which means "to receive, understand". Nowadays we mostly use this word as a synonym for awareness. But awareness originates from old english "gewær", which means to be aware of something. Hence there is a massive difference between these two:
Intention
Isn’t it interesting how much our perception is subject to our focus? Like in a photograph, everything in the background blurs except the thing we focus on. Depending on what we hold in our focus, our reality feels very different. For example, if my focus is on all the things I do not have, but would like to have, I don’t feel that good. I feel as if I am missing something, although objectively speaking, that is not the case. I do not miss this object of desire – I just do not own it.
Structures
On closer inspection, structures are omnipresent in our lives. We do not perceive them because they are invisible – they are the grid that holds creation, the manifested reality, together. Everything in nature has a chemical signature, a code that defines its form in manifested reality. An embryo follows in its development exclusively the sequence genetically proclaimed in its DNA – not a millimeter is deviated from it. Each network follows solely the binary code that underlies it; a single mistake in this code makes the whole thing fail.
Unalome
The Unalome is a symbol from Buddhism and is often described as a sign of the path to enlightenment. Since the concept of enlightenment is a very abstract concept in the West, I usually say that it is the symbol of the path from separation to totality. The symbol begins at the center of the spiral; This point symbolizes our birth into the earthly sphere. Here we find separation; Separation from the maternal body; The experience that our body is our own and we are ‘alone’ in it.
Demons
“Perhaps the terrible is basically the helpless that wants help from us.” Today I stumbled upon this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, and it has caused a lot of Dadaistic thoughts in me. Not only that I fully agree with this statement, no, it also reminds me of a practice called Chöd, which was very common among the shamanic Tibetan healers.