Transcribed from the recording of the Sunray Basic Meditation Practice
by
Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo
This is a practice of mindfulness coming from the tradition of the Tslagi
people, the Cherokee people. Mindfulness that one may ever be in good relation
with oneself and others and the understanding that each of us is weaving a dream
and determining our reality.
By calling upon the power of chant, the power of affirmation, the energy of visualization the mind is brought to stability. One is able to perceive the stream of thought and be in good relation.
Yourself, you are a calm lake and your thoughts, they are ripples in that lake and those ripples go out and touch many others and those ripples return to you. Or you may be weaving a rug with your thought your intention, your desire to act. And your actions they are determining the warp and woof of your reality. Let that rug be a rug of beauty a beauty road. Let the lake ever be placid reflecting the clear mind within.
So this practice, it is very
old, it is over a 100 thousand years old. In the long long time ago this
practice came with the people from the stars to Elohi Mona, the
So that one can overcome the impediments to that clarity of thought and right relationship, let anger be transformed to compassion, jealousy to care, greed to sharing, pain to no shame no blame, dishonestly to truth. All of these things can separate one from the essential truth within. Even though acting in ignorance we can always come again to that pure mind within through discipline of the mind and awakening the heart to the spirit of generosity. Thru acting in consideration of how it will be for the people seven generations from now.
So you see, your thinking, it is a sacred trust, your action and deeds let them be deeds of future good relations with the earth and the people. Let what you do now bring forth what is good for people. May the attitudes which obscure clear mind many they be transmuted by this practice.
It is passed by Nellie
Yawhoo, Eonah Fisher and Eli Ywahoo.
For over 27 generations this mystery has been passed along.