:: 5 Principles ::

“It is said that when the student is ready the master appears. It took me the greater part of my life to be ready. However, when I was, I found the teachings, ancient beyond belief, were right in front of me. It only required a code to access it. Like a living book, once I comprehended the principles behind what my physical senses revealed, I discovered the ways of the shamans. What was once a process so mysterious as to incomprehensible became understandable. In time, I found that a profound, intelligent, and compassionate ordering principle exists just beneath the surface of normal consciousness.”

- The Andean Codex

"Harmony and peace come when our feelings, thoughts, and actions are in balance."

With the stones and mountains as their classroom, the ancient spiritual teachers of the Andes, called Amauta, taught the principles of life to the Incas. Distilled over thousands of years, the Q’ero Indians of Peru, the ancestors of the Incas, retain the essence of these teachings and embody them in a way of life. These five principles, explained in detail inThe Andean Codex, constitute the eco-spiritual template for our times.

1- Munay – the way of love and beauty – means feelings and emotions. Its most refined character is loving-kindness and its outer expression is the loveliness of nature.

2- Yachay – the way of knowledge – represents thought and logic, and means to learn, know, and remember.

3- Llanka’y – the way of action – means to work at right livelihood that is ecologically sound, benefits the welfare of others, and encourages community service

4- Kawsay – the way of life – includes the matrix of energy that makes up the web of life and that links all things on Earth.

5- Ayni – the way of reciprocity – means the interchange of love, knowledge, and work. It represents the law of universal responsibility.

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