Hello everyone ! I haven’t used Tumblr in a while so I don’t know if any of you is still active but I’m posting this just in case.
I recently started giving language classes online as well as in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I’m giving French and English lessons and my boyfriend is giving Quechua lessons. We’re just getting started so we don’t have a lot of clients yet.
I created a Facebook page and an Instagram account in order to reach more people. If any of you would like to follow us to help us build an audience this would be awesome ! I will post language tips and vocabulary lists like I used to do on Tumblr a few years ago when I was an active langblr haha
Also if any of you is interested in French, English, Spanish or Quechua lessons online, I will give you a 25% discount if you come from Tumblr. Our prices are already quite low as we live in Bolivia and charge bolivian prices. Please send me a message if you’re interested !
Quiero dormir y no despertar, quiero entrar al mar y la superficie no alcanzar, quiero saltar como un ave en su primer vuelo y fallar, quiero la paz eternamente alcanzar.
¿Cómo querían que no cambiará en un mundo donde un buen corazón es centro de atracción del circo, tomado por raro y débil, en está vida insensible que ya no sabe lo que es amar de verdad?
Hi it’s werelivingarts and I’m back with some unique tips on learning foreign languages. I love learning Mandarin and Korean, and my foreign friends absolutely love it when I try to speak with them. ✨
Learning languages is tough but really fun. Remember that you need to set goals, such as by the end of today, I will finish studying the alphabet, not the simple “getting fluent” goal. It’s okay when things you first say are gibberish because you will certainly get better by learning your mistakes.
Here are just some extra weird ways to help you learn: ● Use region-specfic social media (Weibo for Chinese, Kakao Talk for Korean, etc) ● Narrate in other languages as you commute (e.g. the mysterious man who wears brown cap-toe Oxfords just get his cats turn left and is now entering the supermarket) ● Read newspaper and magazine ● Change your phone language ● Get help from your native speaker friends ● Take notes in other languages
P/s: Do you have any useful methods to learn foreign languages? If yes, please share it down here ⬇️
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
La herida es el lugar por donde entra la luz.
~ Rumi
So many of us are currently experiencing what Jack Kornfield calls “The Pain of the World.” It’s not my personal pain or yours; it’s just part of life, and all beings experience it. I struggle with accepting Rumi’s truth: growth, blessings, and wisdom are most likely to develop as a result of our painful, difficult, and challenging seasons. I wish this wasn’t the truth, but it is. I pray with all my heart that liberating growth, surprising blessings and mature wisdom are germinating and blossoming in all of us right now ❤️
Muchos de nosotros estamos experimentando lo que Jack Kornfield llama “El dolor del mundo”. No es mi dolor personal ni el tuyo; es solo parte de la vida y todos los seres la experimentan. Me costa mucho aceptar la verdad de Rumi: es más probable que el crecimiento, las bendiciones y la sabiduría se desarrollen como resultado de nuestras temporadas dolorosas, difíciles y desafiantes. Ojalá no fuera la verdad, pero así es. Oro con todo mi corazón para que el crecimiento liberador, las bendiciones sorprendentes y la sabiduría madura estén germinando y floreciendo en todos nosotros ahora mismo. ❤️
Just as physical pain alerts us to troubles in our body, mental pain alerts us to where we need to be more conscious. In other words, our frustrations, anger, delusions, and so on become our greatest helpers in freeing ourselves from suffering. They point to where the “Ego” is trapped, and they remind us to begin to shift our identity to the “Soul” level. They show us where we are resisting change and where we need to grow beyond past conditioning.
~ Ram Dass (from Still Here)
Así como el dolor físico nos alerta sobre problemas en nuestro cuerpo, el dolor mental nos advierte dónde debemos estar más conscientes. En otras palabras, nuestras frustraciones, ira, engaños, etc. se convierten en nuestros mayores ayudantes para liberarnos del sufrimiento. Señalan dónde está atrapado el “Ego” y nos recuerdan que debemos comenzar a cambiar nuestra identidad al nivel del “Alma”. Nos muestran dónde nos resistimos al cambio y dónde debemos crecer más allá del condicionamiento pasado.
I thought the whole COVID-19 quarantine thing would be over in 2 or 3 months, and when I realized in late July that it was going to continue indefinitely, I went through about 6 weeks of pretty bad depression until I started realizing that I needed to pay attention to what I was feeling in a different way. I made an effort to meditate more (which, by the way, is the answer to almost EVERYTHING) and to make my yoga sessions more meditative, and I learned that Ram Dass is right: it is possible to let mental pain show us what is really going on underneath the surface, which in turn allows us to make shifts in thinking and perceptions. This kind of awareness is 75% of the battle, because it’s now much easier to make decisions, take action if necessary, and stay in a more positive mindset. For me personally, I learned that the depression was really about resistance to change and being even more out of control than usual. I didn’t like how different my life had become. I was struggling with and resisting things I couldn’t control, such as not being able to see people I love and not being able to go to very many places. Through mindfulness and meditation, I was able to relax around the resistance and desire to be in control, and they lost their power over me. I have been able to let go a little better and allow things I can’t change or control to be as they are. I still have days of depression, of course, because this all really sucks for all of us, but I’m doing a better job of taking things one day at a time and looking for things to enjoy and appreciate each day. May all of us be able to find joy in the present moment.
Pensé que todo el asunto de la cuarentena de COVID-19 terminaría en 2 o 3 meses, y cuando me di cuenta a fines de julio de que iba a continuar indefinidamente, pasé por aproximadamente 6 semanas de depresión bastante fuerte hasta que comencé a darme cuenta de que necesitaba prestar atención a lo que estaba sintiendo de una manera diferente. Hice un esfuerzo por meditar más (que, por cierto, es la respuesta a casi TODO) y por hacer mis sesiones de yoga más meditativas, y aprendí que Ram Dass tiene razón: es posible dejar que el dolor mental nos muestre lo que realmente está sucediendo debajo de la superficie, lo que a su vez nos permite hacer cambios en el pensamiento y las percepciones. Este tipo de conciencia es el 75% de la batalla, porque ahora es mucho más fácil tomar decisiones, actuar si es necesario y mantener una mentalidad más positiva. Para mí, personalmente, aprendí que la depresión se trataba en realidad de resistencia al cambio y de estar aún más fuera de control de lo habitual. No me gustó lo diferente que se había vuelto mi vida. Luchaba y resistía cosas que no podía controlar, como no poder ver a las personas que amo y no poder ir a muchos lugares. A través de la atención plena y la meditación, pude relajarme en torno a la resistencia y el deseo de tener el control, y estas cosas perdieron su poder sobre mí. He podido dejar ir un poco mejor y permitir que las cosas que no puedo cambiar o controlar sean como son. Todavía tengo días de depresión, por supuesto, porque todo esto realmente apesta para todos nosotros, pero estoy haciendo un mejor trabajo tomando las cosas un día a la vez y buscando cosas para disfrutar y apreciar cada día. Que todos podamos encontrar alegría en el momento presente.
No necesitas saber con precisión lo que está sucediendo, o exactamente hacia dónde va todo. Lo que tienes que hacer es reconocer las posibilidades y desafíos que ofrece el momento presente y abrazarlos con valentía, fe y esperanza.
¿Qué pasaría si pudieras amarte por completo, incluidas tus imperfecciones? ¿Y si pudieras amar a los demás de la misma manera? Con la consciencia plena, puedes convertirte en el amor que has buscado. Y con este amor también vuelves a ti mismo.
Buddhist psychology teaches that these are all ways you cause yourself suffering:
1. Wanting to control everything (and everyone) around you and thinking that it’s possible to do so. When you relinquish the illusion of control, you ease your suffering.
2. Wishing that things and circumstances were the way you want them to be, rather than allowing them to be just as they are in reality. This kind of struggling and resisting hurts your mind, spirit and body.
3. Clinging to anything. You might be clinging to good things, wanting them to never change. You might be clinging to people, wanting them to never leave you. Or you might be clinging on to your ideas of how things should be. Clinging causes suffering.
4. Wishing that the past had been different than it was. You cannot change or undo an event that has already occurred, and the time you spend ruminating and longing for a different reality is painful.
5. Wishing that others were the way you want them to be, rather than allowing them to be exactly as they are. It’s a terrible burden to go through life wanting others to think, believe, act and speak the way you want them to. This desire often causes others to suffer too.
6. Not accepting yourself exactly as you are in any given moment. It’s OK to want to evolve and grow, but you can’t bring about true, lasting change unless you first learn to love and accept yourself just as you are.
We spend a lot of time looking for happiness when the world right around us is full of wonder. To be alive and walk on the Earth is a miracle, and yet most of us are running as if there were some better place to get to. There is beauty calling to us every day, every hour, but we are rarely in a position to listen.
The basic condition for us to be able to hear the call of beauty and respond to it is silence. If we don’t have silence in ourselves - if our mind, our body, are full of noise - then we can’t hear beauty’s call.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Pasamos mucho tiempo buscando la felicidad mientras el mundo que nos rodea está lleno de maravillas. Estar vivo y caminar sobre la Tierra es un milagro, y sin embargo, la mayoría de nosotros estamos corriendo como si hubiera un lugar mejor para llegar. Hay belleza que nos llama todos los días, cada hora, pero rara vez estamos en condiciones de escuchar.
La condición básica para que podamos escuchar el llamado de la belleza y responder a él es el silencio. Si no tenemos silencio en nosotros mismos, si nuestra mente, nuestro cuerpo, están llenos de ruido, entonces no podemos escuchar el llamado de la belleza.
