Inquiry/Racism/Atsila?

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In a message dated 10/16/1999 1:00:16 AM Atlantic Daylight Time,

ZEN2WRK writes:

 

<< ZEN2WRK

 

In a message dated 10/14/99 3:13:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

hluthar writes:

 

<< The Great Spirit showed us that things always change. Accepting it, we

felt

contented. Sometimes we cried and sometimes we laughed as the Great Spirit

moved us. We prayed to the Great Spirit and asked for mercy. We asked to be

spared from pain. We prayed that others be spared pain. We prayed that our

Heart would grow big and embrace the whole universe and wipe away all tears

of all living beings. Then we saw the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit

swallowed us. Now We Saw that We were the Great Spirit.

 

Chief Harsha 1999

>>

Hau! The Braves and Squaws erect their totems to you and paint their

wigwams with your paint of many colors. Your wisdom is like that of the

rain, which falls on all things...your love like the clouds, that shields us

from the brightest sun and gives birth to the rain; your compassion like the

wind, that is felt throughout the land. We will follow even if the trail is

marked with tears and even if we must live in Canada. I have climbed the

seven moon mountain in your honor and carved your sacred signs above the

highest claw marks left by the tallest grizzly...it simply says "Harsha is

One with Us."

 

-Medicine Man Leaping Zenbob 1999 or so... >>

 

Thanks Zenbob. I understood everything that you said (other than the living

in Canada part). I was moved by your climbing the seven moon mountains also

to carve my sacred sign above the highest claw marks left by the tallest

grizzly. I don't know what to say to that (because I never knew I had a

sacred sign) so I will let Mira, Dan, Rainbo, Gloria, Aleks, Janpa, Bruce, or

anyone who pleases comment on that. I am sure that the sign you put up there

Zenbob was the right one as you have unerring intuition it seems. The Great

Spirit has moved you to speak, inspired your art, filled your heart, perhaps

so you could share you wisdom in an entertaining way. This is important in

this dark age (Kali Yuga) as people have short attention spans. So humor is

needed. And you make an art of it and so you are the acknowledged master

here.

 

I also wanted to say that I was concerned about the following comment from a

new member, Atsila Aktahi that came to the list after you posted. She wrote

"that was very sad, even racist,........... atsila aktahi". I don't know if

that referred to your comments given above or not. I would not want Atsila or

anyone else to feel this way at all as I do not think that was the intent

here. This Satsangha has value because we respect each other and Ahimsa

(nonviolence) is the underlying theme and the fabric of our interactions. As

human beings we make mistakes and as we recognize them we do our best to make

up for them. Your post was not clear to me Atsila, except that I felt you

were hurt by some words that someone said and I am sorry about that. In a

way, this is life I guess. Perhaps we are all so utterly desperate in our

loneliness that comes from the need to be understood exactly in the way we

want to be. And perhaps not many have the capacity or the inclination to

understand us in the way we want or the way we are. Perhaps that is our pain.

And perhaps there is no other solution but to love each other despite that

pain.

 

Love to all

Harsha