The house
Visão Pura
To recognise the perfection of our primordial nature, to recognise it in all beings and to experience it in every area of life: this is what we call pure vision.
A house where different ways of inquiring into experience can meet.
Visão Pura is the shared home of Paulo Borges and Daniela Velho. Here we bring together the programme, registrations, the pathways we lead together and access to Espaço Visão Pura. Each of us continues our own work in our own places; what this house offers is the meeting.
Philosophy and practice meet the lived body and contemplative experience. It is this companionship that sets the tone of the house.
Foundation
Five energies, five fundamental experiences
Being, knowing, loving, abounding, creating. The five qualities of presence (open, aware, loving, abundant and creative) run through all the pathways of Visão Pura, although each offering may give more room to some of them.
SpaceBeing · open presence
Space is the energy of Being, where the pure vision of reality naturally reveals itself: being born, dying, passing through.
WaterKnowing · aware presence
Water is the energy of Knowing, where the aspiration to inquire and to go deeper naturally comes forth.
FireLoving · loving presence
Fire is the energy of Loving, where the possibility of an unconditional passion for life is unveiled.
EarthAbounding · abundant presence
Earth is the energy of Abounding, where diversity and fullness free us from all sense of lack.
AirCreating · creative presence
Air is the energy of Creating, where infinite possibilities for the world and for life emerge from the natural space of being.
What we offer
Courses and year-long pathways
Study and practice over time, with live and recorded sessions in Espaço Visão Pura.
Retreats and gatherings
Seasonal retreats, walks, celebrations and evenings of conversation, mostly at Santuário Dewachen.
Communities
Groups that sustain themselves month by month, where transformation can ripen.
Retreat journeys
Journeys away from home, somewhere between pilgrimage and retreat.
A physical place
Santuário Dewachen was born in the grounds of our home.
It grew as we discovered new ways of caring and co-creating in biodiversity and abundance. Today it is an independent project that hosts many of the Visão Pura retreats as well as activities run by other people and organisations.
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