When Tiokasin Ghosthorse speaks of human's apathy for Mother Earth
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I know that it has been proven scientifically that when you give without expecting anything back - your whole body instantly assumes a healthy path, your whole blood or DNA, if you will, changes... and every molecule is effectively positive including a clearing attitude. I feel those who have not given back what was taken away from those who gave freely are at an unhealthy risk that is why the land - Unci Maka is being treated this way. It has become an individual right to apathy and not a relationship to all the land and to the people who are still connected to the land. I think its the worse thing to do to the people who are at peace with Mother Earth, it is the worse thing to do is to disturb Mother Earth's peace. Apathy is just another form of recycled greed."
.....it touches the core and essence of my feminine-ness....and touches upon my inability to fully rationalize from my mind, or give words to the insanity of violence toward the Love which is freely given from the Essence and Nature of our Mother Earth.
Is apathy a symptom of spiritual immaturity?
Does apathy condone the rape, robbing and pillaging of
our Mother Earth? or Her children?
How does apathy treat our People's when we are the voice of Mother Earth, a voice some still can not hear?
Is this voice of Love for our Mother and her children, disregarded, ignored, discriminated against?
Does apathy proliferate the notion that it is a natural state of being for humans to be brutal, objectify and attempt to completely subjugate Her and All Life? .... because this Love is freely given by our Mother, do we have no responsibility to give freely to Her and each other?
If giving freely to each other is the "new economy", what happens when more than one needs is taken without giving ...oh yeah, Great Mystery will take of it?...is this another apathetic way of not taking responsibility for our own actions, of disrespecting that each of us have different skills and gifts that make the hoop of community healthy?
Does apathy keep us in bondage to money and milking resources?
Apathy may be another word for why the Kogi call the western culture "Little Brother" who is not spiritually mature yet.
I read a Sutra written by Shakyamuni Buddha. I tell it to you here in my own words.
In this sutra the Buddha was Tara who is the feminine aspect of the enlightened Buddha Nature. Tara is walking through the beautiful lands of the Ganges. A hoard of drunken slovenly men on horseback, riding fast and belligerently surround Her and capture Her.... The 'leader' says to Her: "Ahh you are a beautiful thing, good to satisfy me and my hungry and lusty men."
Tara says, "do as you choose".
The hoard of men, jump off their horses and make camp. They light a fire, drink more liquor and become rowdier and more foul mouthed toward Her. Then the 'leader' says, " We will have our way with you, and you will satisfy all my men."
From Tara's satchel she pulls a silk blanket and lays it down upon the earth. She then says " Come, do as as you will" and proceeds to lie down. She gives herself to each and every man, the grace and essence of her Love permeating all around, flowers bloom, birds sing, the grasses that were scorched by the men's campfire turned green again. The Nature and Essence of Her Being, Her Love, profoundly touches these men.
The karma of each man that took which she gave freely, became her devotees for ALL eternity. The teaching of the Sutra is that these men's karma is to become enlightened because one can not do harm or take from the Buddha/Tara Nature which is Free. Instead of the law of "cause and effect" being that if you do harm, you will receive harm.... rather if you do harm to another, you do harm to your Self and your true Nature is to become enlightened...therefore you have to grow up and become responsible for who you are....you will become devotees to that which you harm.....there is no way out of having to wake up, it is your Nature.
Another way to say this is that "medicine" needs no protection, it's very Nature is far more powerful, infinite, mysterious, than anyone...we are specks of sand, fractals of sentient light... and it is for this reason we walk with awe, respect, honesty, devotion, humility, courage....etc.
When I contemplate what Tawahongva said to me when I asked him why he could not help the man who was being driven crazy and depressed ... He said, "The man must set right what he has done and set right his relationship within his Self. Healing can only be received by the capacity to receive it for healing is free and comes from Massau, not me the man."
and when I contemplate the Lakota version of this, about White Buffalo Calf Woman who turns the lusty greedy men who did not recognize her Wakan Nature to dust....what is the Wakan Nature that has the power to do this? This is the icke wicasa Nature, the original instructions, it is how mi abuela says we are made, the Way all of us to be able to walk, be, do ..this that is our birthlife....of Mitakuye Oyas'in - this Love that is the Sentience of All Life. When we know our true Nature, all the aspects of our true Nature...Truth, Love, Honesty, Courage, Humility, Wisdom, Healing, Responsibility, Compassion, Generosity, etc are naturally embodied.... like what Albert White Hat said in reference to the Canupa: "If I had known what it was when I picked it up, I would not have, but now that I have, I can not live without it."
Consider that Mother Earth's Sentient Love will have her Way with us, stay true to Her, we are Her children. She is Sentient, alive and has Her own Dream and Reality.
Thank you for listening to my muses this morning.
~ Alis Itlatol
Thank you Tiokasin Ghosthorse
