I recently asked a friend of mine to facilitate a meeting of a group of marketing professionals on the topic, "The Native American Concept of Self and Community and What Businesses Could Learn from our Native Brothers and Sisters." My friend is Lakota Healer Gene Thin Elk; and his response to my request that he join our wisdom circle for a few days is worth sharing. In an eloquent way he was saying he would join us; but did not know for how long.
Since the concept of time is arbitrary, yet it is claimed to be a precise scientific measurement. When “times passes” nothing has truly been lost or gained. The essence of our memories, dreams, visions and our relation with them, through the act of free will give birth to reality. The condition of one’s spirit, in relation to one’s state of mind, is the eternal gift. When we understand cycles of dreams, visions, insights, memory, thoughts, their emergence, dissipation and re-emergence we will understand our eternal self that comes from the Wakan (Sacred/God).
Our privilege is to enter, learn, harmonize, give life to and move through Mother Earth and her (woope’) laws. Condition of our Spirit and the conditions in which our Spirit interplays are the eternal joys paramount to focusing on the temporal limiting conditions. Enjoy the moment for it is totally new and it is unfathomably old and yet it is neither, because we are the real expression of the Wakan and the relationships we have with all of creation are the REALity!
In the Lakota culture there are no elderly only Wisdom people called Elders.
What a wonderful message. With all of our technology and advancement, we left behind our respect for the elders of Society. As we become a nation dominated by older adults, we can only hope to end ageism and embrace all that the Wisdom People have to offer.
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