On an isle there is a mountain of life beyond what you can see. Do a complete circle around your self, then take a journey of your own. Never go to the top alone, or to the bottom by yourself. Always stay at the center of life, then your balance in life will be your own and then you’ll gain more purpose through life in that balance.
CONTENTMENT When you think of a mountain and an ant, find a place that you're in contentment, not a place you're happy. Happiness comes natural, contentment you have to find. Sit by a creek and listen to the silence of the ripples. It will speak to you. When you find that place you’ll know. Fast in silence .Contentment will appear.
KNOWLEDGE Knowledge is our grandmothers and grandfathers and you learn all through you life time. Sometime in life you have to go back, to find out who you are. Your ancestors will help you, when you find out who you are, and then you can go ahead in life. Finding your bloodline is knowledge, because that’s you. Living that line is a task and must take example from Respected Elders of you Communities or Clan.
WISDOM Wisdom is our grandmothers and grandfathers of tomorrow, which is our youth of today. We ,as ELDERS, hold trust for them so they can be stronger in culture than we are. Now our ELDER is fading away. Take time for them to speak to you. They are the metal stories of our survival/wisdom.
PATH Your path in life is of saying and doing, but you have to control of your body, mind, and spirit, a journey that is not hard to accept. Think of the turtle, how slowly he moves on earth, but he or she lives over 300 years old sometimes.
HONOR When you speak with honor, you will receive respect. Spiritual strength you will receive because the people have power. We have none. All ways honor elders, leaders, your community, and yourself. Then you will receive HONOR.
HAPPINESS Small and simple events in life make people happy, but happiness is only for a short time. Why not find what’s in the spirit of those events. It will come to your surprise that you are the spirit of happiness at events. Then the whole event becomes a circle of happiness.
HEALING Healing is not a mission. Don’t attempt to heel another person, if you yourself are laid in illness. Find the path of illness. Most sickness is natural in stages of life. You can heal yourself in that case. Only for illness enter your body, nine spirits will harm you, Then medicine from your birthplace will heal you. But that is the final healing path.
TASK. I have been instructed by the CREATOR to do a task. I have to reach out, smell, touch, hear, see and be present, and then you yourself are that task.
TRACKS When an EAGLE flies he leaves no tracks for his predators to harm him. We can do the same, only be gentile when walking MOTHER EARTH, and no harm will comet you. When an EAGLE flies, he is not only looking for prey, he is watching over the earth to protect and search its path. Our Path is theirs but they cannot see it, so we ,as humans, are the path of natural being. That is a start.
Material Some people say “I worked all my life and have nothing”. That’s because material things are nothing, only to look at, and a need. Your visions in life are what makes life, and then follow your dreams. Life is no bed of roses but I smell them all the time. Pray this way and you dreams will become a reality..
Courage I thought I accomplished everything in life, but first I had to conquer my biggest enemy, MYSELF. Now I can go on living.
WORK An ant does not stop tolling and working all day long, yet he is one of the smallest creature on earth. No mountain stands in their way. Be content when you work, or shift to another job. We are not ants.
DIRECTIONS There are seven secret directions, on our secret pipe, seven stages in life, seven gifts, seven teachings, seven secret medicines. When searching in life always start to the east, and with yourself first.
Symbols There are signs and symbols on earth for us to follow. CLOSE YOUR EYES. In life use all senses, make them work together. Nature will react to your senses, faster than man made signs.
YOUTH When a robin leaves its nest they do not return to their mothers. When a child leaves their mother they draw closer together. When a child wants to fly allow them to explore life.
CONFEDERATION My uncle told me, not to cut a tree to cross to the other side of the creek ..."Why?" I asked. "Your son may need that tree to shelter and to breed among his children’s children."
SMUDGING Sweetgrass is a secret plant, the hair of mother earth. When you smudge to purify your body, mind, spirit, you pray for all creation, to continue is what people forgets.
LEARNING There are certain things women and man can learn in a life span. Don’t try to learn every subject there is. It’s going to take a long time to learn one subject of life. Itself.
OFFERING When we take from MOTHER EARTH, make an offering back, with what ever substance you have. To give is better than receiving. MOTHER EARTH preserves food and shelter. These gifts are all free. And we are only the fourth to be here on earth. The animals were third, the plants were seconds, and the rocks were here first, our grandfathers.
FEAR Fear is our biggest foe which hides in you. Breath fresh air and get rid of fear. While there is air, there should be no fear.
DEATH Old Joe told me he was worried about life, not the death. He said "But there may be no one to carry the secret medicine after I leave because it’s dangerous to mix medicine together, unless you're brought up from a young child. Knowing your plants on earth is one’s life.
VISION Believe in your VISIONS, but a real vision is only those that become a reality.
TALKING I asked an ELDER, when I was only young man. How will I speak to a Group of people? She said "Speak from your heart, but don’t disrespect your self, and know their caliber of their education before you begin and those people's culture which is their language." We INDIANS are not educators. We are teacher of WISDOM. TOHO!
PRAY When I pray to the rocks, our GRANDFATHERS and the DRUM, teachers of the cycle of life, to give me strength, to respect our leaders of yesterday, leaders of today, and leaders of tomorrow and for our youth to have silence. Our wars among men and women, nation to nation, country to country, like the ripples of the creeks in the world , please bandage the wounds of our forefathers.
Pray this way and you have paid respect to all creation.
PIKTO'L SA'KE'J MUISE,
( ANCIENT SPIRIT OF THE WHITE WOLF)
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