Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 10

[Ghost in the Machine]

Elder's Meditation of the Day - March 10

"I know Grandpa told me that to smoke is wakan (holy). The smoke you inhale represents the spirits of everything you put into the pipe. When you breathe in the smoke, you are asking to become one with everything or to become whole."
--Dr. A.C. Ross (Enhanamani), LAKOTA


The smoke allows us to go from the Seen World to the Spirit World. It is in the Spirit World where we are all connected. In this way, we can become one with all things. Our pipe is sacred. We need to be respectful of our medicine. When we smoke the pipe, we need to have good thoughts because these thoughts are shared with the Spirit World. The pipe, the smoke, the spirits, our thoughts-these things are Wakan.


Great Spirit, today, let my thoughts be Wakan.

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

[Warpy]

1. My tribal friends tell me, "In exchange for the horse, we

could almost forgive you for whiskey."

My reply is, "In exchange for potatoes, squash, corn, and tomatoes, we could almost forgive you for tobacco."

If only they had used cannabis instead of tobacco!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Not all use tobacco in the pipe

In the Lakota tradition my husband follows, the sacred tobacco is made from the inner bark of the red willow. Totally different taste and texture than tobacco.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Wakan

In one of the sweatlodge songs, we sing of the Sacred Pipe, and how it is sacred--but in the fourth found, we say all things are sacred.

I breathe the smoke and know it is true. Ho Metaquiatsun!

[Ghost in the Machine]

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