Thursday 1 april 2010
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"Vacuity cannot be explained (...) Nor can "I am nothing, or nobody" be
explained, it is an experience. It is a switch of identity from " being somebody, with a limited identity, to being nobody, which is unlimited identity ."
Amma (found on http://terra-nostra.over-blog.fr)
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Monday 29 march 2010
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The mole is a fairly blind animal, and has a very long nose, so it can feel
around and sense things.
It is comfortable beneath the earth, which gives it a lot of symbolism around
being at one with the earth and with feeling, an ability that is very important to all First Nations. For instance, I remember Sun Bear telling me that when he was young, he would practice
“feeling” with his brother, as a very precise method of perception. They would take turns holding up a log, with one hand above the head, while the other one would shoot the log with a
twenty-two rifle, blind-folded, just by feeling where the log was. Since the brother was beneath that and was holding the log it had to be precise.
Feeling is a very precise mode of perception that most people don't use to their fullest, but the mole really exemplifies this, because he hardly sees anything, yet he finds his way around very
comfortably. He can find the food he needs, and borrows into the earth, where it is really comfortable and warm, and gets along really fine even if he can hardly see anything.
So, there are other ways and means of perception, and this is the main message of the mole.
By Blue Eagle
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Thursday 25 march 2010
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"We are like a great lake, and our thoughts are like waves that touch many beings, reaching the shore, and coming back to us. Thus, if we think good or bad thoughts about
someone this thought will affect that person, and come back to us with the corresponding vibration."
Translated from Le cristal et la santé, Blue Eagle
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Monday 22 march 2010
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The rattle, another very significant
instrument in Native American culture, is that power that unties the knots of suffering on our different levels of being. It will shake loose the cobwebs of past traumas or delusions and let the
light of being fill us with energy.
The rattle is called "the life force shaker", because it strengthens our vitality. The life force shaker opens the pathways of energy in our bodies, making clear the ways for the light to
circulate. The light here means the life force, also called "orneïda". The light is on a higher faster octave than sound. Like sound, it is a vibration. Like music, it can carry life force and
many other things. We receive light from the sun, stars and moon and also from the earth. We can learn to open the doors in our bodies so the light can strengthen us.
The rattle also teaches us something through its symbolism: if you don't agitate it, it will give no sound; similarly, if you don't practice it regularly, your spirituality will remain
useless.
By Blue Eagle
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Thursday 18 march 2010
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"Listening with empathy means that you listen in such a way that the other
person feels you are really listening, really understanding, hearing with your whole being - with your heart (...) Deep listening, compassionate listening is not listening with the purpose of
analyzing or even uncovering what has happened in the past. You listen first of all in order to give the other person relief, a chance to speak out, to feel that someone finally understands him
or her (...) During this time you have in mind only one idea, one desire: to listen in order to give the other person the chance to speak out and suffer less."
Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger (Chapter 5, Compassionate
communication)
By Blue Eagle
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