Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 8

[Ghost in the Machine]

Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 8


"Balance is implicit in the Red Road. When you're on the Red Road, you are in the center. Yet, you do not go to either extreme, and you allow both sides to exist. This is accomplished by continually postponing surrendering to temptation, whatever it may be. It is saying `later' instead of `no.'"
--Dr. A.C. Ross (Ehanamani), LAKOTA



The Sacred Path of life has a middle, a left side, and a right side. As human beings, we are designed to walk this middle path as much as we can. As we walk, we will stray to the left and to the right and come back to the middle. Straying to the left or right side is as sacred as being in the middle. Sometimes we call this straying our mistakes. We are designed by the Creator to walk to Sacred Path of life, and realize that our mistakes are the source of lessons. These lessons give us our wisdom. It is not wrong that we are tempted. What matters is what we do with the temptation.



Great Spirit, today, let me enjoy the Sacred Path of Life.

http://www.whitebison.org/meditation/index.php

[knowbody0]

1. walk on, my friend

[Gin]

2. thank you!

[MedleyMisty]

3. Hmm - again, I was reading it and feeling it and agreeing with it

until it got to "Creator".

I promise I won't reply to any more of these with my questions about why that word has to be in there. I'm just going to go and ponder why that word bothers me when I totally get and agree with the rest of these messages. I imagine some of it is cultural conditioning - I've grown up in a culture where people who refer to a supreme being are ignorant and hateful and want to impose their strict dogmatic external structure on me.

[knowbody0]

4. try this:

imagine a life with out air. now think of this "air" as life force. we share this with all creatures and plant life. in the laws of the universe, there is contraction and expansion, movement, but always a force with an opposing force. in that chaos there is a beautiful order and balance. when asked, I often advise substituting "creator" with "universe". that is much more acceptable for many.