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| Teachings of the Pale One | |
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| Topic Started: May 8 2006, 12:23 PM (170 Views) | |
| Loveandbeloved | May 8 2006, 12:23 PM Post #1 |
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An excerpt from Voices of our Ancestors, by Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo "The Pale One reminded the people how to live in harmony with these fundamental truths of creation. He instructed them in the five sacred rituals shared by all Native American peoples, means to maintain most pure mind. Smoke offerings clarify mind and environment; on the smoke one's prayers and action are dedicated to the good of all, and the smoke carries the prayer to all realms. The Pale One particularly instructed the people in the use of tobacco and cedar as offerings. Rituals of fasting and sweating are offerings made to purify body and mind and to relieve the ignorance and sufferings of the people. Through sacred vigil one tends the wisdom fire, crying for vision, for the courage and compassion to walk the Beauty Path to benefit all beings. The religious practices of Native peoples are practices of sacred relationship; they involve prayerful communion with the natural elements and powers, including the Adawees, those angelic beings who are guardians of the directions, gateways of consciousness; and communal ceremonies based on the cycles of sun and moon and the movements of the stars. " Practice of sacred relationship is practice of good relations with all in the family of life. Thus the Pale One gave seven reminders to the people, that all might recall and honor the unity of the hoop: 1. What walks, swims, flies, or creeps is in relationship; the mountains, streams, and valleys and all things are related to your thought and action. 2. What occurs around you and within you reflects your own mind and shows you the dream you are weaving. 3. Three principles of awakened mind guide enlightened action: will to see the Mystery as it is; intention to manifest one's purpose for the benefit of all; courage to do what must be done. 4. Generosity of heart and action brings peace and abundance for all in the circle. 5. Respect for elders, clan, land, and nation inspires acts in harmony with the sacred law, good caretaking of the gifts received. 6. Action to benefit the land and the people unto seven generations shapes the consciousness of the Planetary Caretaker, dreaming those yet unborn, ever mindful of life's unfolding. 7. To be in good relation, transforming patterns of separation, pacifying conflicting emotions, is to experience the wisdom within, still lake of Mystery. Arising from these teachings are the nine precepts in the Code of Right Relationship: 1. Speak only words of truth. 2. Speak only of the good qualities of others. 3. Be a confidant and carry no tales. 4. Turn aside the veil of anger to release the beauty inherent in all. 5. Waste not the bounty, and want not. 6. Honor the light in all. Compare nothing; see all for its suchness. 7. Respect all life; cut away ignorance from one's own heart. 8. Neither kill nor harbor thoughts of angry nature, which destroy peace like an arrow. 9. Do it now; if you see what needs doing, do it. |
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