{"id":736,"date":"2018-11-02T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T21:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/50voices\/?post_type=project&#038;p=736"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:48:06","slug":"aryavacin-y-manjugita-and-i-fell-in-love-with-the-order","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/50voices\/project\/aryavacin-y-manjugita-and-i-fell-in-love-with-the-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryavacin y Manjugita: &#8220;\u2026and I fell in love with the Order&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; disabled_on=&#8221;on||&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row column_structure=&#8221;1_2,1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_post_title author=&#8221;off&#8221; date=&#8221;off&#8221; comments=&#8221;off&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;off&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Quote Title (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; title_text_color=&#8221;#ee7600&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Order Name (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<a href=\"#annals\">Read speaker annals<\/a><br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Talk Description (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manjuguita leyendo, &#8216;El espejo mas preciado&#8217;, y comentando las met\u00e1foras en las que se deleita<\/li>\n<li>Nuestras ordenaciones &#8211; su impacto en la Sangha mexicana y para los venezolanos<\/li>\n<li>Nuestros nombres como miembros de la Orden<\/li>\n<li>El encuentro de Aryavachin con Amoghasiddhi durante su curso de Ordenaci\u00f3n<\/li>\n<li>Reflexionando sobre los pr\u00f3ximos 50 a\u00f1os de Triratna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track titles in English:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manjugita reading one of her poems \u2018The Mirror\u2019\u00a0(<em>El Espejo<\/em>) &#8211; 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text_font=&#8221;|||on|||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<span class=\"caps\">BIOGRAF\u00cdA<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">DE<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ARYAVACHIN:<\/span><br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;OM Annals (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<strong>En 1968<\/strong> no hab\u00eda nacido\u00a0a\u00fan.<\/p>\n<p>Nac\u00ed en 1978 en la ciudad de M\u00e9rida, en el coraz\u00f3n de los Andes venezolanos, tramo final de esa cadena monta\u00f1osa que viaja por Am\u00e9rica del Sur de cara al Oceano Pac\u00edfico y va a morir al mar Caribe. La terraza de mi ciudad tiene una altura de 1600 snm y en s\u00f3lo 50 min se pueden alcanzar las cumbres de las murallas azul verdosas coronadas de nieve que forman el valle del r\u00edo Chama, ayudados en la escalada por el sistema telef\u00e9rico Mukumbar\u00ed, el cual termina en Pico Espejo a m\u00e1s de 4700 metros de\u00a0altura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1988<\/strong> estudiaba el quinto grado de la escuela primaria. Soy el mayor de dos hermanos y a mam\u00e1 le toc\u00f3 criarnos sola. Nuestra familia viene del campo y mi ni\u00f1ez estuvo llena de cuentos sobre brujas, fantasmas y seres m\u00edticos que vagaban de noche y viv\u00edan en bosques, r\u00edos y monta\u00f1as. Mi dedicada madre nos llevaba a ver curanderos y sacerdotisas que pod\u00edan interceder invocando la fuerza de dioses, diosas y esp\u00edritus, en intentos muchas veces desesperados por aliviar el asma que nos aquejaba a mi hermano y a m\u00ed, y que los m\u00e9dicos alop\u00e1ticos no pod\u00edan\u00a0curar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1998<\/strong> estaba cursando estudios de inform\u00e1tica en un instituto universitario de M\u00e9rida. Ya para ese entonces hab\u00eda dejado de ser cat\u00f3lico y estaba en una b\u00fasqueda que me permiti\u00f3 conocer diferentes grupos (gn\u00f3sticos, iglesias evang\u00e9licas, clases de yoga) as\u00ed como tambi\u00e9n me despert\u00f3 el inter\u00e9s por aprender c\u00f3mo usar el poder total del cerebro, lo que finalmente me llev\u00f3 el siguiente a\u00f1o al Centro Budista de M\u00e9rida. All\u00ed conoc\u00ed a ex-Manjunatha, quien con los a\u00f1os se convirti\u00f3 en un buen amigo y que por ese entonces dirig\u00eda la tradicional clase de meditaci\u00f3n de los mi\u00e9rcoles al mediod\u00eda, mi punto de encuentro con el\u00a0Buda-Darma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2008<\/strong> viv\u00eda en Cambridge, trabajando en el equipo\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ADK<\/span>\u00a0de Windhorse:Evolution. El a\u00f1o anterior fue mi primera vez volando m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la zona del Caribe, experimentando as\u00ed muchas novedades: los dram\u00e1ticos cambios de las cuatro estaciones que caracterizan a un pa\u00eds septentrional como Inglaterra; sumergirme en su idioma y cultura, realmente desconocidos para m\u00ed; trabajar en una bodega abandonando ambiciones de tipo profesional y convertirme en padre a larga distancia, \u00a1todo al mismo tiempo! Mi hijo, Leandro Carsey, naci\u00f3 en Junio de 2008 y debido a mi situaci\u00f3n legal en el Reino Unido, la visa para estar presente durante el parto me fue negada en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Londres. Conoc\u00ed a Leandro por primera vez en Venezuela, en Diciembre de 2008, cuando era un beb\u00e9 de apenas 6\u00a0meses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2018<\/strong> vivo en Nottingham y trabajo para el Centro Budista de \u00e9sta ciudad como Convocador de Mitras para los hombres. Mi hijo Leandro ha cumplido 10 a\u00f1os y ya deja de ser un ni\u00f1o: empieza a asomarse el adolescente y a trav\u00e9s de \u00e9l, puedo ver rasgos del hombre que probablemente llegar\u00e1 a ser. Nos mantenemos en contacto regular a trav\u00e9s de v\u00eddeo llamadas y tantas visitas y encuentros como nos es posible. Tambi\u00e9n estoy muy involucrado con la Sanga venezolana, espec\u00edficamente como tesorero del Centro Budista de M\u00e9rida. Estoy igualmente explorando activamente el legado de William Blake a trav\u00e9s de la exposici\u00f3n que hace Bhante Sangharakshita del\u00a0Buda-Darma.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aryavacin\u2019s\u00a0Annals (English)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1978<\/strong> I was born in Merida, at the heart of the Venezuelan Andes, the last stretch of that continental mountain range which tours South America, facing the Pacific Ocean, and dies in the Caribbean sea. The city\u2019s terrace is at 1,600 meters above the sea level and in just 50 minutes, using the Mukumbari cable-car system, it\u2019s possible to climb one of the huge green-blue walls of the snow-crowned valley: a peak more than 4,700 meters of\u00a0altitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1988<\/strong> I was at fifth grade of primary school, being the older son to a single mother of two. Our family comes from the countryside and my childhood was full of stories about witches, ghosts and mythical beings who wandered overnight and inhabited woods, rivers and mountains. My caring mother sometimes took my brother and me to traditional healers and priestesses who channel the forces of gods, goddesses and spirits, in a desperate attempt to relief the asthma that doctors couldn\u2019t\u00a0cure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1998<\/strong> I was at Uni in Merida, studying Computer Science and had already stopped practising Catholicism. I was searching with different religious groups among them Gnostics, other Christian churches, yoga classes and learning about the underused capacities of the brain which eventually led to my first meditation class at the Merida Buddhist Centre the following year, on the traditional meditation class of Wednesdays lunch time, which my good friend ex-Manjunatha used to\u00a0lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2008<\/strong> I was living in Cambridge and working at the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ADK<\/span>\u00a0team of Windhorse:Evolution. It was my first time outside the Caribbean area, experiencing anew the dramatic transition between seasons in a four seasons country, a new language and culture, a totally new working experience and becoming a long distance father, all at once! My son, Leandro Carsey, was born on June 2008, and because of my legal status in the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>, I was denied a visa to be present during his birth. I met Leandro for first time in Venezuela, on December 2008, as a 6 months old\u00a0baby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2018<\/strong> I\u2019m living in Nottingham and working for the Nottingham Buddhist Centre as the men\u2019s Mitra Convenor. I keep in regular contact with my son Leandro through video calls and as many visits as we can accommodate. I\u2019m also very actively involve in the development of the Venezuelan Sangha, as the Merida Buddhist Centre\u2019s treasurer. I\u2019m actively engaged in exploring William Blake\u2019s legacy through Bhante\u2019s exposition of the\u00a0Dharma.<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Annals Title (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font=&#8221;|||on|||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<span class=\"caps\">BIOGRAF\u00cdA<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">DE<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">MANJUGITA:<\/span><br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;OM Annals (Desktop)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<strong>En 1968<\/strong> No hab\u00eda nacido\u00a0a\u00fan<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1978<\/strong> No hab\u00eda nacido\u00a0a\u00fan<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1988<\/strong> ten\u00eda seis a\u00f1os, estaba estudiando mi primer a\u00f1o en la escuela primaria. En los d\u00edas festivos, sol\u00eda ir con mi mam\u00e1 al campo para pasar tiempo con su maestro espiritual. Aprend\u00ed las bases de la atenci\u00f3n consciente y la importancia de ser honesta y sincera conmigo misma y los dem\u00e1s. En ese entonces mi mam\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n me estaba ense\u00f1ando la importancia de la vida espiritual y de no vivir apegada al mundo material. Disfrutaba mucho el contacto con la naturaleza y los cursos que tomaba de dibujo y escultura me permitieron conocer y expresar un mundo\u00a0interior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1998<\/strong> estaba en la escuela secundaria disfrutando de mis clases de literatura y fotograf\u00eda, tambi\u00e9n estaba coqueteando con los chicos y explorando el alcohol y el tabaco. A trav\u00e9s de la familia de mi novio, tuve la primera experiencia en la que me di cuenta de que lo que algunos hombres llaman religi\u00f3n puede ser algo totalmente distorsionado y opuesto a la sabidur\u00eda y la compasi\u00f3n. A esa edad, ten\u00eda mucha curiosidad por la frase \u201cCon\u00f3cete a ti mismo y conoceras el Universo\u00a8 \u00a1Realmente quer\u00eda conocer el Universo! Tambi\u00e9n escuch\u00e9 por primera vez que los sentidos eran una especie de filtros y quer\u00eda aprender m\u00e1s sobre ellos. Asist\u00eda a reuniones con mi madre y sus amigos donde sol\u00edan leer libros de Gurdjieff y Ouspensky. Desafortunadamente, el maestro de mi mam\u00e1 hab\u00eda muerto algunos a\u00f1os\u00a0atr\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2008<\/strong> estaba terminando mi licenciatura en cine. Ya hab\u00eda notado que mi vida era un patr\u00f3n doloroso, repetitivo y lo que quer\u00eda era liberarme de ese condicionamiento. Extra\u00f1aba mucho las experiencias que hab\u00eda tenido con el maestro de mi mam\u00e1 cuando era ni\u00f1a y decid\u00ed buscarlas en otro contexto y llevar una vida espiritual significativa. Entonces empec\u00e9 a buscar amigos que pudieran compartir conmigo el anhelo de la liberaci\u00f3n. Mi madre me recomend\u00f3 que explorara el budismo y algunos meses despu\u00e9s, siguiendo mi coraz\u00f3n, me encontr\u00e9 con Triratna. Al estudiar la rueda de la vida, practicar la meditaci\u00f3n y leer a Sangharakshita, descubr\u00ed que era\u00a0budista.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2018<\/strong>, despu\u00e9s de haber hecho algunos viajes a Inglaterra y Espa\u00f1a, de conocer a la Sangha en diferentes contextos y de haber hecho el Young women\u00b4s Dharma life Course en Adhisthana en 2014, comprend\u00ed lo que era la Sangha Internacional y me enamor\u00e9 de la Orden. Mi retiro de Ordenaci\u00f3n fue en abril de 2017 en M\u00e9xico, ahora estoy muy agradecida por la vida que llevo y por todos los amigos alrededor del mundo que han compartido su ir a refugio conmigo y que han sido parte de mi propio ir a refugio. Por el momento soy parte de un peque\u00f1o negocio de sustento \u00e9tico en la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico y ayudo en el Centro Budista con algunos talleres, puyas y meditaci\u00f3n. Mi primera Convenci\u00f3n de la Orden fue este a\u00f1o en India y me dio la oportunidad de conectarme de manera genuina con la sangha de la India y algunos de los proyectos sociales que llevan a cabo. Lo que m\u00e1s disfruto es escribir poemas y asistir a retiros largos. Mi esperanza para el futuro es explorar c\u00f3mo es la vida en un Centro de\u00a0Retiros.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manjugita\u2019s\u00a0Annals (English):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1968<\/strong> I was not\u00a0born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1978<\/strong> I was not\u00a0born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1988<\/strong> I was six years old, I was studying my first year in primary school. On holidays, I used to go with my mother to the countryside to spend time with her spiritual teacher. I learnt basic mindfulness and the importance of being honest and truthful to myself and others. My mother was also teaching me about the importance of the spiritual life and not to live attached to the material world. I was enjoying contact with nature very much, and I was delighted taking some drawing and sculpture courses and expressing an inner world through\u00a0arts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1998<\/strong> I was in high school enjoying my literature and photography lessons. I was flirting with boys and exploring alcohol and tobacco. Through my boyfriend\u2019s family, I had the first experience in which I realized that what some men call religion can be something totally distorted and opposed to wisdom and compassion. At that age, I was very curious about the phrase \u00b4Know yourself and you will know the Universe\u00b4 I really wanted to know the Universe! I also heard for the first time that the senses were a kind of filters and I wanted to learn more about it. I was attending meetings with my mother and her friends where they used to read books by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. Unfortunately, my mother\u2019s teacher had died many years\u00a0before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2008<\/strong> I was finishing my degree in filmmaking. I had noticed some time before that my life was a painful repetitive pattern and that I wanted to break free from such conditioning. I was missing so much the experiences I had with my mother\u2019s teacher when I was a child that I decided to have a full spiritual life. Then I started looking for friends who could share with me the longing for liberation. My mother recommended that I should explore Buddhism and some months later, by following my heart, I came across Triratna. Through studying the wheel of life, practicing meditation and by reading Sangharakshita, I discovered I was a\u00a0Buddhist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2018<\/strong>, after some trips to England and Spain, meeting the Sangha in different contexts and doing the Young Women\u00b4s Dharma life course at Adhisthana in 2014, I got a good sense of what the International Sangha was, and I fell in love with the Order. I got ordained in April 2017 in Mexico, now I\u2019m very happy and grateful for the life I have, and for all the friends around the world who have shared their going for refuge with me and who have been part of my own going for refuge. I run a small right livelihood business in Mexico City and help at The Buddhist Centre with some workshops, pujas and meditation. I had my first Order Convention in India this year and it gave me the opportunity to connect in a genuine way with the Indian sangha and the social projects they run. 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_builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manjuguita leyendo, &#8216;El espejo mas preciado&#8217;, y comentando las met\u00e1foras en las que se deleita<\/li>\n<li>Nuestras ordenaciones &#8211; su impacto en la Sangha mexicana y para los venezolanos<\/li>\n<li>Nuestros nombres como miembros de la Orden<\/li>\n<li>El encuentro de Aryavachin con Amoghasiddhi durante su curso de Ordenaci\u00f3n<\/li>\n<li>Reflexionando sobre los pr\u00f3ximos 50 a\u00f1os de Triratna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track titles in English:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manjugita reading one of her poems \u2018The Mirror\u2019\u00a0(<em>El Espejo<\/em>) &#8211; the metaphors she delights in<\/li>\n<li>Our ordinations \u2013 the impact on Sangha in Mexico and on Venezuelans<\/li>\n<li>Our Order names \u2013 the meaning given at ordination, how we responded at the time, how we connect with their meaning now<\/li>\n<li>Aryavacin\u2019s encounter with Amoghasiddhi during his Ordination course<\/li>\n<li>Reflecting on the next 50 years of Triratna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243; 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La terraza de mi ciudad tiene una altura de 1600 snm y en s\u00f3lo 50 min se pueden alcanzar las cumbres de las murallas azul verdosas coronadas de nieve que forman el valle del r\u00edo Chama, ayudados en la escalada por el sistema telef\u00e9rico Mukumbar\u00ed, el cual termina en Pico Espejo a m\u00e1s de 4700 metros de\u00a0altura.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1988<\/strong> estudiaba el quinto grado de la escuela primaria. Soy el mayor de dos hermanos y a mam\u00e1 le toc\u00f3 criarnos sola. Nuestra familia viene del campo y mi ni\u00f1ez estuvo llena de cuentos sobre brujas, fantasmas y seres m\u00edticos que vagaban de noche y viv\u00edan en bosques, r\u00edos y monta\u00f1as. Mi dedicada madre nos llevaba a ver curanderos y sacerdotisas que pod\u00edan interceder invocando la fuerza de dioses, diosas y esp\u00edritus, en intentos muchas veces desesperados por aliviar el asma que nos aquejaba a mi hermano y a m\u00ed, y que los m\u00e9dicos alop\u00e1ticos no pod\u00edan\u00a0curar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1998<\/strong> estaba cursando estudios de inform\u00e1tica en un instituto universitario de M\u00e9rida. Ya para ese entonces hab\u00eda dejado de ser cat\u00f3lico y estaba en una b\u00fasqueda que me permiti\u00f3 conocer diferentes grupos (gn\u00f3sticos, iglesias evang\u00e9licas, clases de yoga) as\u00ed como tambi\u00e9n me despert\u00f3 el inter\u00e9s por aprender c\u00f3mo usar el poder total del cerebro, lo que finalmente me llev\u00f3 el siguiente a\u00f1o al Centro Budista de M\u00e9rida. All\u00ed conoc\u00ed a ex-Manjunatha, quien con los a\u00f1os se convirti\u00f3 en un buen amigo y que por ese entonces dirig\u00eda la tradicional clase de meditaci\u00f3n de los mi\u00e9rcoles al mediod\u00eda, mi punto de encuentro con el\u00a0Buda-Darma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2008<\/strong> viv\u00eda en Cambridge, trabajando en el equipo\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ADK<\/span>\u00a0de Windhorse:Evolution. El a\u00f1o anterior fue mi primera vez volando m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la zona del Caribe, experimentando as\u00ed muchas novedades: los dram\u00e1ticos cambios de las cuatro estaciones que caracterizan a un pa\u00eds septentrional como Inglaterra; sumergirme en su idioma y cultura, realmente desconocidos para m\u00ed; trabajar en una bodega abandonando ambiciones de tipo profesional y convertirme en padre a larga distancia, \u00a1todo al mismo tiempo! Mi hijo, Leandro Carsey, naci\u00f3 en Junio de 2008 y debido a mi situaci\u00f3n legal en el Reino Unido, la visa para estar presente durante el parto me fue negada en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Londres. Conoc\u00ed a Leandro por primera vez en Venezuela, en Diciembre de 2008, cuando era un beb\u00e9 de apenas 6\u00a0meses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2018<\/strong> vivo en Nottingham y trabajo para el Centro Budista de \u00e9sta ciudad como Convocador de Mitras para los hombres. Mi hijo Leandro ha cumplido 10 a\u00f1os y ya deja de ser un ni\u00f1o: empieza a asomarse el adolescente y a trav\u00e9s de \u00e9l, puedo ver rasgos del hombre que probablemente llegar\u00e1 a ser. Nos mantenemos en contacto regular a trav\u00e9s de v\u00eddeo llamadas y tantas visitas y encuentros como nos es posible. Tambi\u00e9n estoy muy involucrado con la Sanga venezolana, espec\u00edficamente como tesorero del Centro Budista de M\u00e9rida. Estoy igualmente explorando activamente el legado de William Blake a trav\u00e9s de la exposici\u00f3n que hace Bhante Sangharakshita del\u00a0Buda-Darma.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aryavacin\u2019s\u00a0Annals (English)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1978<\/strong> I was born in Merida, at the heart of the Venezuelan Andes, the last stretch of that continental mountain range which tours South America, facing the Pacific Ocean, and dies in the Caribbean sea. The city\u2019s terrace is at 1,600 meters above the sea level and in just 50 minutes, using the Mukumbari cable-car system, it\u2019s possible to climb one of the huge green-blue walls of the snow-crowned valley: a peak more than 4,700 meters of\u00a0altitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1988<\/strong> I was at fifth grade of primary school, being the older son to a single mother of two. Our family comes from the countryside and my childhood was full of stories about witches, ghosts and mythical beings who wandered overnight and inhabited woods, rivers and mountains. My caring mother sometimes took my brother and me to traditional healers and priestesses who channel the forces of gods, goddesses and spirits, in a desperate attempt to relief the asthma that doctors couldn\u2019t\u00a0cure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1998<\/strong> I was at Uni in Merida, studying Computer Science and had already stopped practising Catholicism. I was searching with different religious groups among them Gnostics, other Christian churches, yoga classes and learning about the underused capacities of the brain which eventually led to my first meditation class at the Merida Buddhist Centre the following year, on the traditional meditation class of Wednesdays lunch time, which my good friend ex-Manjunatha used to\u00a0lead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2008<\/strong> I was living in Cambridge and working at the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ADK<\/span>\u00a0team of Windhorse:Evolution. It was my first time outside the Caribbean area, experiencing anew the dramatic transition between seasons in a four seasons country, a new language and culture, a totally new working experience and becoming a long distance father, all at once! My son, Leandro Carsey, was born on June 2008, and because of my legal status in the\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">UK<\/span>, I was denied a visa to be present during his birth. I met Leandro for first time in Venezuela, on December 2008, as a 6 months old\u00a0baby.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2018<\/strong> I\u2019m living in Nottingham and working for the Nottingham Buddhist Centre as the men\u2019s Mitra Convenor. I keep in regular contact with my son Leandro through video calls and as many visits as we can accommodate. I\u2019m also very actively involve in the development of the Venezuelan Sangha, as the Merida Buddhist Centre\u2019s treasurer. I\u2019m actively engaged in exploring William Blake\u2019s legacy through Bhante\u2019s exposition of the\u00a0Dharma.<br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Annals Title (Mobile)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; text_font=&#8221;|||on|||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<span class=\"caps\">BIOGRAF\u00cdA<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">DE<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">MANJUGITA:<\/span><br \/>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;OM Annals (Mobile)&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<strong>En 1968<\/strong> No hab\u00eda nacido\u00a0a\u00fan<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1978<\/strong> No hab\u00eda nacido\u00a0a\u00fan<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1988<\/strong> ten\u00eda seis a\u00f1os, estaba estudiando mi primer a\u00f1o en la escuela primaria. En los d\u00edas festivos, sol\u00eda ir con mi mam\u00e1 al campo para pasar tiempo con su maestro espiritual. Aprend\u00ed las bases de la atenci\u00f3n consciente y la importancia de ser honesta y sincera conmigo misma y los dem\u00e1s. En ese entonces mi mam\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n me estaba ense\u00f1ando la importancia de la vida espiritual y de no vivir apegada al mundo material. Disfrutaba mucho el contacto con la naturaleza y los cursos que tomaba de dibujo y escultura me permitieron conocer y expresar un mundo\u00a0interior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 1998<\/strong> estaba en la escuela secundaria disfrutando de mis clases de literatura y fotograf\u00eda, tambi\u00e9n estaba coqueteando con los chicos y explorando el alcohol y el tabaco. A trav\u00e9s de la familia de mi novio, tuve la primera experiencia en la que me di cuenta de que lo que algunos hombres llaman religi\u00f3n puede ser algo totalmente distorsionado y opuesto a la sabidur\u00eda y la compasi\u00f3n. A esa edad, ten\u00eda mucha curiosidad por la frase \u201cCon\u00f3cete a ti mismo y conoceras el Universo\u00a8 \u00a1Realmente quer\u00eda conocer el Universo! Tambi\u00e9n escuch\u00e9 por primera vez que los sentidos eran una especie de filtros y quer\u00eda aprender m\u00e1s sobre ellos. Asist\u00eda a reuniones con mi madre y sus amigos donde sol\u00edan leer libros de Gurdjieff y Ouspensky. Desafortunadamente, el maestro de mi mam\u00e1 hab\u00eda muerto algunos a\u00f1os\u00a0atr\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2008<\/strong> estaba terminando mi licenciatura en cine. Ya hab\u00eda notado que mi vida era un patr\u00f3n doloroso, repetitivo y lo que quer\u00eda era liberarme de ese condicionamiento. Extra\u00f1aba mucho las experiencias que hab\u00eda tenido con el maestro de mi mam\u00e1 cuando era ni\u00f1a y decid\u00ed buscarlas en otro contexto y llevar una vida espiritual significativa. Entonces empec\u00e9 a buscar amigos que pudieran compartir conmigo el anhelo de la liberaci\u00f3n. Mi madre me recomend\u00f3 que explorara el budismo y algunos meses despu\u00e9s, siguiendo mi coraz\u00f3n, me encontr\u00e9 con Triratna. Al estudiar la rueda de la vida, practicar la meditaci\u00f3n y leer a Sangharakshita, descubr\u00ed que era\u00a0budista.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En 2018<\/strong>, despu\u00e9s de haber hecho algunos viajes a Inglaterra y Espa\u00f1a, de conocer a la Sangha en diferentes contextos y de haber hecho el Young women\u00b4s Dharma life Course en Adhisthana en 2014, comprend\u00ed lo que era la Sangha Internacional y me enamor\u00e9 de la Orden. Mi retiro de Ordenaci\u00f3n fue en abril de 2017 en M\u00e9xico, ahora estoy muy agradecida por la vida que llevo y por todos los amigos alrededor del mundo que han compartido su ir a refugio conmigo y que han sido parte de mi propio ir a refugio. Por el momento soy parte de un peque\u00f1o negocio de sustento \u00e9tico en la Ciudad de M\u00e9xico y ayudo en el Centro Budista con algunos talleres, puyas y meditaci\u00f3n. Mi primera Convenci\u00f3n de la Orden fue este a\u00f1o en India y me dio la oportunidad de conectarme de manera genuina con la sangha de la India y algunos de los proyectos sociales que llevan a cabo. Lo que m\u00e1s disfruto es escribir poemas y asistir a retiros largos. Mi esperanza para el futuro es explorar c\u00f3mo es la vida en un Centro de\u00a0Retiros.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manjugita\u2019s\u00a0Annals (English):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1968<\/strong> I was not\u00a0born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1978<\/strong> I was not\u00a0born.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1988<\/strong> I was six years old, I was studying my first year in primary school. On holidays, I used to go with my mother to the countryside to spend time with her spiritual teacher. I learnt basic mindfulness and the importance of being honest and truthful to myself and others. My mother was also teaching me about the importance of the spiritual life and not to live attached to the material world. I was enjoying contact with nature very much, and I was delighted taking some drawing and sculpture courses and expressing an inner world through\u00a0arts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 1998<\/strong> I was in high school enjoying my literature and photography lessons. I was flirting with boys and exploring alcohol and tobacco. Through my boyfriend\u2019s family, I had the first experience in which I realized that what some men call religion can be something totally distorted and opposed to wisdom and compassion. At that age, I was very curious about the phrase \u00b4Know yourself and you will know the Universe\u00b4 I really wanted to know the Universe! I also heard for the first time that the senses were a kind of filters and I wanted to learn more about it. 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