Meditations on Wisdom
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Meditations on Wisdom
Meditations on Wisdom Wednesday 28 February 2024
Wholeness can only Emerge
within a Gaian Nature-Centric world view!
A Gaian Nature-Centric world view
is at the heart of the
Tz’utujiil Maya Way of Living
This next cycle of 2024 “Meditations on Wisdom” will begin a more direct focus on exploring the differences between learning and living from a Human-Centric world view versus learning and living from our Inner Nature. Which is always fully weaved within our Wholeness assisting us to express a Gaian Nature-Centric world view.
A Human-Centric world view is the primary focus behind the ways learning exists within our current form of education.
A Gaian Nature-Centric world view has been the primary focus of learning behind the wisdom of the Indigenous Ways.
Human-Centric is taught.
Gaian Nature-Centric is experienced.
Allowing me to emerge into a “More than Human World View.”
I wrote this piece flying home from my visit in the Tikal Biosphere in the Peten area of Guatemala on 14 August 2023. Today this same piece is experienced within me as my opening into a Gaian Nature-Centric world view!
My Inner Nature allows me to live life within the “More than Human World.”
For I and all of Life dances within the web of interconnectivity.
When I consciously chooses to say “Yes” to Living Life
I add my Living Light to the Light of All That Exists!”
Life that is Seen
Life that is below the surface of the Seen
Life that is Unseen
Through my body’s Inner Nature I enter into my Beingness.
I am at One within the communication of Living Light
A Living Light within Everything - Anything - Everyone of the Unseen
Supporting the Emergence of Life behind Everything - Anything - Everyone that is Visible!
As I am weaved within my participation within a More than Human World We emerge as One
We are at the moment of our Beingness
We are within our Wholeness of the Flow of Living Light
Weaved within the Dance between Seen and Unseen
Supporting the Emergence of our weaved Inner Nature within the Presence of the Living Light as One
For all Unknown Possibilities can Flourish
For All Living Life to Be!
Blessings Love Conrad
Holder of the Light of the Nab’eysiil within the Light of the Tz’utujiil Maya
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Inner Silence :
Weaving Energy Intelligence Behind Everyday Life
First read the Cinquain Poem on the Tree of Life, then Press Play to Experience the Calling of the Tree of Life Force into your Body or Copy and Paste the link into your Browser to DropBox to play it there.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/eo91fhjf0nb2a9x/Tree%20%26%20Drum%20San%20Juan.mp4?dl=0
A cinquain poem is an unrhymed five line poetic form defined by words to express what you are sensing about each Daily Tree of Life Photo
The Heart of the Wisdom Teachings of the Tz’utujiil Maya Tree of Life in didactic Cinquain form:
“Tree
Fragile Essence
Sprouting Growing Flowering
Unique Unknown Potentials Possibilities
Creation”
Wholeness can only Emerge
within Living within a Gaian Nature-Centric world view!
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Various ways to experience the inner shifting landscape from a Human-Centric into a Gaian Nature-Centric World View
From the Book from Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
How do I show my girls I love them on a morning in June? I pick them wild strawberries. On a February afternoon we build snowmen and
then sit by the fire. In March we make maple syrup.
We pick violets in May and go swimming in July. On an August night
we lay out blankets and watch meteor showers. In November, that
great teacher the woodpile comes into our lives.
That’s just the beginning. How do we show our children our love?
Each in our own way by a shower of gifts and a heavy rain of lessons.
Maybe it was the smell of ripe tomatoes, or the oriole singing, or that certain slant of light on a yellow afternoon and the beans hanging
thick around me. It just came to me in a wash of happiness that made
me laugh out loud, startling the chickadees who were picking at the
sunflowers, raining black and white hulls on the ground. I knew it with
a certainty as warm and clear as the September sunshine.
The land loves us back. She loves us with beans and tomatoes, with
roasting ears and blackberries and birdsongs. By a shower of gifts
and a heavy rain of lessons. She provides for us and teaches us to
provide for ourselves. That’s what good mothers do.
I looked around at the garden and could feel her delight in giving us
these beautiful raspberries, squash, basil, potatoes, asparagus,
lettuce, kale and beets, broccoli, peppers, brussels sprouts,
carrots, dill, onions, leeks, spinach. It reminded me of my little girls’
answer to “How much do I Love you?” “Thiiiiiiiis much,” with arms
stretched wide, they replied.
This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden— so they
would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.
The epiphany in the beans. I spend a lot of time thinking about our
relationships with land, how we are given so much and what we might give back. I try to work through the equations of reciprocity and
responsibility, the whys and wherefores of building sustainable
relationships with ecosystems. All in my head. But suddenly there was
no intellectualizing, no rationalizing, just the pure sensation of
baskets full of mother love. The ultimate reciprocity, loving and being
loved in return.
Now, the plant scientist who sits at my desk and wears my clothes
and sometimes borrows my car— she might cringe to hear me assert
that a garden is a way that the land says, “I love you.”
Isn’t it supposed to be just a matter of increasing net primary
productivity of the artificially selected domesticated genotypes,
manipulating environmental conditions through input of labor
and materials to enhance yield? Adaptive cultural behaviors that
produce a nutritious diet and increase individual fitness are selected
for. What’s love got to do with it? If a garden thrives, it loves you? If a
garden fails, do you attribute potato blight to a withdrawal of
affection? Do unripe peppers signal a rift in the relationship?
I have to explain things to her sometimes. Gardens are simultaneously
a material and a spiritual undertaking. That’s hard for scientists, so
fully brainwashed by Cartesian dualism, to grasp.
“Well, how would you know it’s love and not just good soil?” she asks.
“Where’s the evidence?
What are the key elements for detecting loving behavior?” That’s easy.
No one would doubt that I love my children, and even a quantitative
social psychologist would find no fault with my list of loving behaviors:
nurturing health and well-being
protection from harm
encouraging individual growth and development
desire to be together
generous sharing of resources
working together for a common goal
celebration of shared values
interdependence
sacrifice by one for the other
creation of beauty
If we observed these behaviors between humans, we would say, “She
loves that person.” You might also observe these actions between a person and a bit of carefully tended ground and say, “She loves that garden.”
Why then, seeing this list, would you not make the leap to say that the garden loves her back?
The exchange between plants and people has shaped the
evolutionary history of both. Farms, orchards, and vineyards are
stocked with species we have domesticated. Our appetite for their
fruits leads us to till, prune, irrigate, fertilize, and weed on their behalf.
Perhaps they have domesticated us. Wild plants have changed to
stand in well-behaved rows and wild humans have changed to settle
alongside the fields and care for the plants— a kind of mutual taming.
We are linked in a co-evolutionary circle. The sweeter the peach, the
more frequently we disperse its seeds, nurture its young, and protect
them from harm. Food plants and people act as selective forces on
each other’s evolution— the thriving of one in the best interest of the
other.
This, to me, sounds a bit like love.
I sat once in a graduate writing workshop on relationships to the land.
The students all demonstrated a deep respect and affection for
nature. They said that nature was the place where they experienced
the greatest sense of belonging and well-being. They professed
without reservation that they loved the earth.
And then I asked them, “Do you think that the earth loves you back?”
No one was willing to answer that. It was as if I had brought a two-
headed porcupine into the classroom. Unexpected.
Prickly. They backed slowly away. Here was a room full of writers,
passionately wallowing in unrequited love of nature.
So I made it hypothetical and asked, “What do you suppose would
happen if people believed this crazy notion that the earth loved them
back?” The floodgates opened. They all wanted to talk at once. We
were suddenly off the deep end, heading for world peace and perfect
harmony.
One student summed it up: “You wouldn’t harm what gives you love.”
Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend
and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you
in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way
street into a sacred bond.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall (2013-09-16). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous
Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (pp.
124-125). Milkweed Editions. Kindle Edition.
This book “Braiding Sweetgrass” is a clear example of the shifting paradigm from a Human Centric Way of perceiving into a Gaian Nature Centric Way of perceiving our relationship within Nature from an Indigenous Way of perceiving.
Here, Robin Wall Kimmerer will explore with you the “Gifts of the Land – Guided Nature Tour” 20:49
Also, this short video 2:13 where she talks personally about why she is the storyteller for this Wisdom.
If you like to explore deeper through a longer video, then this one is 1:24:00 where she talks more directly about her book “Braiding Sweetgrass”
The way I experience writing about Gratitude is honoring the way I perceive gratitude from my Human Centric Way:
Conrad: “I feel the Gratitude for the way my body has learned to change and function in the living world today.”
From my Gaian Nature Centric Way, I experience and writer about Gratitude:
Conrad: “I experience the living light of gratitude supporting my body in the ways we engage living life together. My body is always in the act of allowing the rewearing and the relearning to occur as we together explore new ways of experiencing the weaving of my inner Nature weaved within the shared collaboration within the inner nature around me. Together are exploring a living system of wholeness.”
Which writing appears to be more alive and experienced?
Can you begin too choose writing from a Gaian Nature Centric Way?
When I woke up this morning, I wrote these two perspectives on having Gratitude for my body.
As I was ready for bed this evening, in my YouTube feed this piece “Indigenous Knowledges and the Teachings of Plants 20:30
- after Robin Wall Kimmerer 2021 was in my feed.
Reading and listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer already feels like a gift, and it reminded us to hold deep gratitude for this Earth. In turn, we wanted to give thanks by sharing her ideas, the Teachings of Plants, her ways of looking at mosses, and mingling Indigenous Knowledges and Wisdoms with Western Science. This video follows her ideas from her online speeches and her two books, “Braiding Sweetgrass” and “Gathering Moss”, with the hope of spreading the seeds of gratitude further.
Here is the link for this 20:30 video:
https://youtu.be/rGBORWc2rEY?si=eUFRnCPevcW84G6p
Here is the link for a transcript of this video:
https://mayanbrothers.box.com/s/azpnduiarg67ooadilzinuuyd5v9su1h
I would like to complete todays Blog with this short walking contemplation “Walking the Green Labyrinth” 3:27
Blessings Love Conrad
Holder of the Light of the Nab’eysiil within the Light of the Tz’utujiil Maya