Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 25

[Ghost in the Machine]

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 25


"the Creator was responsible for the existence of everything, a part of the Creator's spirit exists in everything and thus all things are connected."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA


The Creator designed nature, people, and all things as an interconnected system. Everything is connected to each other. This connection exists in the Unseen World. The same way our body parts are all part of the body-the parts are separate but also connected. If a part of our body is in pain, the rest of the body recognizes this pain as its own. In other words, the pain of one is the pain of all. This is also true of every interconnected system. Because we are connected, we should respect and take care of our Earth and each other.


Great Spirit, let me treat everyone, today, as if they were You.

http://www.whitebison.org/meditation/index.php

[NightWatcher]

1. Mitakuye Oyasin

we are all related

Thank you for posting these

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. I'm glad you enjoyed it, NightWatcher..

Peace to you and yours...


Ghost

[Sal Minella]

2. Thank you.

[Ghost in the Machine]

7. My pleasure...

Peace,


Ghost

[MedleyMisty]

3. Why have the creator bit?

Everything is connected to everything else. But it's perfectly possible to have that without some intelligence that somehow came before everything else having magically created it. You don't have to have any imaginary supernatural stuff to feel empathy for all life.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. The man you quote in your sig line believed in a creator...

We do not want schools....
they will teach us to have churches.
We do not want churches....
they will teach us to quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.
We may quarrel with men sometimes
about things on this earth,
but we never quarrel about God.
We do not want to learn that.

Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader

[Bluerthanblue]

4. wow-

this kind of post makes all the silly ones worth wading through.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to post this.

you grounded me- and i'm grateful

:grouphug:

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. The True Peace

The True Peace

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Taka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.

Black Elk, Oglala Sioux & Spiritual Leader (1863 - 1950)

[seemslikeadream]

5. and thus all things are connected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTNYH-LQQmU

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. ......

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves.

When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth.

We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society.

John (Fire) Lame Deer
Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976