“It touched me in a way that I’m still tearing up, and I’m not entirely sure why.”
It’s been three years since Griffin Colapinto was crowned the Gandhi of surfing for his search for meaning amid the chaos of a port surfing life and two years since he fell under the spell of charismatic faith healer Joe Dispenza.
The almost twenty-seven-year-old Colapinto, you’ll recall, pivoted to Sādhanā, an ego-transcending spiritual practice from India, a move that was quickly dismissed by Kolohe Andino, a believer in the Christian doctrine, who advised, “No false idols.”
According to Colapinto,
We are all part of a web, each and every one of us is connected to it. A change or healing in just one person affects the web and Change creates new possibilities. Your personality creates your personal reality!
Clearly our world is not in its best state right now. But don’t worry because there’s a higher consciousness emerging! I saw it and felt it.
But if you were to think that Griffin Colapinto was the only pro surfer to seek higher truths, a desire to examine the machinations of the universe and so on, you would be very wrong.
For today, it was Italo Ferreira’s turn to find magic in the most unexpected corner. In the Olympic gold medallist’s case, it was a pudding salesman that showed him the god within us all.
Today, I witnessed something truly special and was struck by the humility and strength of this couple as they shared their work. They were selling pudding, and when I looked at the man for a moment, I could clearly see the happiness on his face, just from selling pudding alongside his partner. It touched me in a way that I’m still tearing up, and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe it was their simplicity, their determination to make it work, or the powerful connection between them. I found that moment so beautiful, and I truly believe I was meant to be there to experience it.
I’ve found profundity in many varied places: at a shiatsu joint in Padang, in a back street in Kuala Lumpur, on the deck of a catamaran during the early-ish days in the Ments, in a carpark around the side of Bondi and, three times, in a birthing suite.
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“…Padang, in a back street in Kuala Lumpur, on the deck of a catamaran during the early-ish days in the Ments, frolicking with mermaids who tended to be on the young side at Epstein Island, in a carpark around the side of Bondi and, three times, in a birthing suite.”
I don’t want to know about Colapinto’s sticky sordid webs.
Botox is a hell of a drug
Anglosaxonic cultura doesn’t know shit about it. Champ and gold medal but good soul. World title is just a símbolo of what he is…..Slater won’t never be closest to Toledo, Medina and Italo….and their humbless acts.
Humble from those three? You picked the least humble Brazilians there mate
Italo learned how to surf on a styrofoam cooler lid. He’s from one of the most humble areas of Brazil you could ever visit. I’ve been to that town and surfed the break. You have no idea.
I think coming from a humble background/being humble two different things no? Maybe it is a cultural thing but those three do come across as showy and a bit self centred
I agree with you, their acts are humbless and Slater won’t never.
I hope the ingredients for the pudding were organic
any one know the history of Dreamland??
Working with your partner….yeah…thats gonna be a hard no from me thanks.
Cunts?
His eyes are too close together…
I don’t trust him
Its posts like these that tell me he has a 0% chance of winning the world title this year.
Just pudding it out there…for Likes.
Cactus juice..
Exactly the opposite feeling I get watching Italo’s over amped surfing (poo)style.