"I hate travel and explorers, and now I'm talking about my expedition." [*1] At the beginning of, I agree with you. I don't want to entertain people with the fact that the natives of the Amazon jungle are drinking the strongest hallucinogenic plants on earth and engaging in magical battles.
The main character in this story is the accused, so here I would like to explain my background as briefly as possible.
Why did I, a genuine Japanese born and raised on the other side of the globe, head to South America? Please do not ask. I don't know why. It may have been called by the spirit of tea, but I don't know that either.
Pucallpa, Ucayali, Peru
Year 2000-2001, Buddhist calendar 2543-2544.
It was about 20 years ago that I was taken care of by the people of Sipivo-Conivo, the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon. I met Pablo Amaringo, a painter at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan, and visited his house in Pucallpa to learn painting. Then, we headed to the San Francisco community. Tourism was rapidly progressing.
While staying at a shaman's house, I don't know how many times it will be in total, but I attended a tea party. I'll write about what kind of experience you will have when you drink tea, only twice later.
According to the Sipivo shaman (curanderos / as), each plant has its own spirit. It is said that when you take a plant into your body and sleep, the spirit of the plant will appear in your dream and will teach you the song of the spirit, Icaro.
The plant called Ayahuasca contains the spirit of Ayahuasca, and the plant called Chakruna contains the spirit of Chakruna. Ayahuasca tea is made by combining two spirits into tea.
According to scientists, it's indigenous animism, the plant Ayahuasca contains hamine (a monoamine oxidase inhibitor), and the plant Chakluna contains DMT (dimethyltryptamine), both When taken, it will act as an agonist of the 5-HT 2A receptor.
Both explanations are the same. Ordinary humans cannot see spirits in plants, nor can they see molecules in plants. I just look at the structural formulas in the chemistry textbooks and believe that they look like that.
Drinking tea means ingesting the spirits of plants into the body. The molecule itself, DMT, is a lifeless substance. By binding to serotonin receptors in the brain, consciousness is transformed and consciousness is released from the substance of the brain. It is not the molecule DMT that causes it, but the "act" of drinking tea that contains DMT, harmaline, and many other types of molecules. The tea ceremony is a communion with the spirits.
A young female shaman visits the house where she was living. This is to hold a tea party. She looked at me and told me to be my son. Get permission from the spirits at the tea party tonight. She said she would tell you your name if the spirit gave you permission. It was annoying, but when the shaman begins to see his disciples, he seems to nominate him instantly.
At the tea party that night, I had a near-death experience. In the world of light, I heard the voice of the spirit of the plant.
"It's too early to come here. Go home."
"Do you call me this far and return to the ground again?"
"Yes. Go back to the earth and hold an Ayahuasca tea ceremony to tell the people of the earth about this world."
"Do you mean to be a shaman?"
"That is your mission. You have been chosen."
Be careful if you hear the voice of a spirit and start saying something like this. The world is at stake by evil powers, you are the chosen being, you have a mission to save the world. Gives special power.
You should check to see if you have too much dopamine in your brain. Paranoia, positive symptoms of schizophrenia, when shared in a group, becomes elective thought, conspiracy theory, and apocalyptic theory.
"I can't give ayahuasca tea to others."
"You don't guide humans, tea guides humans. Tea masters just let guests drink tea."
"I can't do it. I'm full of worldly desires."
"That's why I give you a special power."
Don't get on this kind of solicitation. A spirit is a projection of one's mind. Even if you feel that the spirits give you a mysterious power, it's nothing more than discovering the abilities you originally had.
"It's a mission"
"that is impossible"
Not to be confused with so-called addictive drugs, but psychogenic drugs also have harmful side effects.
The sweet temptation of drugs, the courage to cut off.
"It's a mission"
"that is impossible"
After asking and answering, the spirit said.
"The job of making ayahuasca tea on the ground looks for another suitable person."
"Please let me go back to the ground"
"Rikyu was judged for tea tea, but caffeine is ultimately similar to catecholamines."
"I held a Chinese tea ceremony"
"That's at most cannabinoid levels, and you've been warned by the Ministry of Health."
"I just helped a friend who was stopped in quarantine."
"Still, the people on earth didn't listen to the spirits of the plants. That's why it's ayahuasca tea. Ayahuasca tea is the queen of indoleamine."
"The most difficult"
"Yes. Ayahuasca is a last resort. Find the right person. That person is the last and greatest tea master and will be judged."
"So let me go back to the ground."
"You can be a few on the ground. At best, you can help in the half east of the tea ceremony held by the right person."
The voice of the spirit is gone.
Anyone can make tea. It's Isshu's work [trabalho]. The tea master is a human being, not a transcendent. Make tea and serve tea. Tea teaches what customers need. So the tea master doesn't have to say anything extra. What is needed is to make tea with respect for the plants and to act in good faith to the guests. That alone requires a pottery with a decent personality.
The next day, my mind was clear, but my body was lazy. I was swayed by the hammock in the garden until after noon, and thought while dozing. Who is the other qualified person?
The footsteps of people are approaching. Looking back, the young female shaman appeared and came to the hammock. And he said in a traumatic Spanish. Make you my son. It is said that he received the name "ininsui" from the spirits last night. I wrote down the name in a hurry.
But I didn't become a shaman.
I returned to Japan and got a job at a university in Tokyo, where I started teaching anthropology. That became a job.
Curitiba, State of Parana, Brazil
Year 2003-2004, Buddhist calendar 2546-2547.
He stayed as a visiting researcher at the Campus Universitário Bezerra de Menezes and the Institute of Psychological and Biophysics (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Psicobiofísicas.) In Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. It was a Caldecian university, but at the same time, he was invited because he needed an experimental psychological approach.
In the suburbs of Curitiba, there is the Paraná State Branch Church (Seu de Parana) in Santo Daimi, where worship services are held every month on the night of the new moon and the night of the full moon. I was interested and decided to go. I also hit the UDV gate twice, but was refused twice. It seems that ridicule was useless.
To attend the first worship service in Seu de Parana, it was necessary to write a pledge in advance.
The policy was to accept even heathens. In the first place, there were many people in this branch church who were interested in Indian religions.
I didn't know what to answer to the questions in the pledge, "What is your religion?" And "What is your purpose in attending this service?" I'm not a Christian, but that doesn't mean I believe in any other religion. The average Japanese-unusual in the world-are few who believe in a systematic religion. The Japanese accepted Buddhism from India from China, but nature worship is alive in the underlying culture. There is no need to confront a monotheistic god like Westerners do.
The indigenous people of the Amazon accepted Christianity, but the base layer has nature worship. It's the same. The Japanese have a similar face to Indihena. The people of Sipivo think that humans are either themselves indigenous or Gringo from the outside. Even though I came from outside, my face was indigenous, so I had a strange sense of intimacy.
I wrote "Zen Buddhism" in the "What Buddhism do you believe in?" Column of the pledge. Indeed, because I am Japanese, it is Zen Buddhism, because it is easy for people to understand. But more than that, I felt that the ideas of Santo Daime and the ideas of Zen Buddhism had something to do with them.
In the column "What is the purpose of participating in worship?", I wrote "to know myself."
Dogen said, "Learn Buddhism means knowing yourself." "Knowing yourself means forgetting yourself" [*2]
Seu de Parana was in the mountains, away from the city of Curitiba. Worship was held every month on the night of the new moon and the night of the full moon.
One new moon night. During the worship service (trabalho), I couldn't stand the nausea that came up.
When I raised my hand silently, the staff in white suits walked up quietly. "Water (Água)?" "No, in the bathroom (Não. Banho.)"
He took my hand, opened the door and took me out of the building. I even had him accompany me to the bathroom.
Ayahuasca tea is legal in Brazil. However, there is a restriction that it is limited to worship within the facilities of a designated religious corporation.
I went to the bathroom, but I didn't vomit anything. I've been fasting for 24 hours and I understand well that this is the effect of MAOI.
When the nausea subsided, I got out of the bathroom.
When I raised my head, there was no moon. Wow, full of stars [*3] .
In my brain, Richard Strauss's symphonic poem "Zaratustra Talks" was played. The conductor is probably Karajan.
Immediately I understood. The universe is infinite, and the self is infinitesimal. The numinous [*4] was quite scary and sublime (aweful and awsome). Rather than immediately understanding, it was always a feeling of remembering the truth that had already been given (always and already).
Humans are single-stem reeds, the weakest in the world. The entire universe does not have to be armed to crush him. I was crushed by the unfortunate universe and scared to suffocate forever. I clung to the clerk in the white suit.
However, humans are reeds to think about. The poverty of the universe envelops humans, and human thoughts envelop the universe [*5] . The structure of the universe is recursive.
I made a big discovery. The structure of the universe is recursive! It's recursive! It's recursive! Screaming in my heart, but it was scary, and I walked, walked, and walked, holding my arm by the staff. You must immediately return to the building and inform everyone of the great discovery that the truth of the universe is recursive. However, the chant was over and the worship was over without being able to talk to anyone.
At the Shipibo tea party, the shaman drinks Ayahuasca, but after that, they go home and go to bed without discussing myths.
At Santo Daime's worship service, good men and women gather, drink tea, sing, dance, hug each other, go home, and sleep. Since it was a church service, I was wondering if we would all talk about what we had experienced and compare it with the words of the Bible, but that was not the case.
When asked why, "Dai Me" means "give me." In other words, if you take a break from "tea" with the heart of "tell me," "tea" will teach you everything that the person needs.
This is similar to the idea of Buddhism. Zen, in particular, does not value learning the scriptures. In Buddhism, all human beings have "Buddha-nature" inside. Zazen is a physical technique for searching for the Buddha-nature inside.
The old Zen master is silent. If you ask the old master to teach you, you don't need to reason, you just sit down. Alternatively, you are advised to just drink tea. Drinking tea means taking in DMT from outside the body, and doing zazen means producing DMT inside the body.
Ikkyu Sojun, a crazy Zen priest who lived in the 15th century, wrote, "Dharma --the truth is in a cup of tea" [( (Yamanoue Soji (1544-1590) "Yamanoue Soji"))] , and his disciple Murata Juko summarized it into the term "tea zen gang." And Rikyu compiles the tea ceremony.
There is truth (Dharma) in "tea".
Therefore, human beings cannot judge "tea". If you do that, humans will be judged by "tea" [*6] .
(This text is under construction.)
*1:Je hais les voyages et) les explorateurs. Et voici que je m'apprête à raconter mes expéditions. Levi-Strauss Junzo Kawada (Translation) "Sad Tropical (I)" Chuokoronsha, 4.
*2:" Shobogenzo 1" (current Koan) Iwanami Shoten. 54.
*3:"My God! Full of stars!") (The last words of Captain Bowman in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". [asin: B003EVW6BI: detail]
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*5:[asin: B00LMB2SI8: detail]] https://www.ub.uni-freiburg .de / fileadmin / ub / referate / 04 / pascal / pensees.pdf: title = Pensées].
*6:https://www.amazon.co.jp/Holy-Bible-Testament) -Greek-english-Dictionary / dp / 3438051605 /: title]
