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Core Belief Re-affirmation as per HB's request...

Posted by dj on June 11, 2000, at 17:59:47

In reply to Re: Stone Games... » dj, posted by harry b. on June 7, 2000, at 16:51:58

>
> dj- I'd like to read your reaffirmation of
> core beliefs. It would be of great interest to
> me right now.
>
> hb

Here it is, Harry. I hope it is of some benefit to you.

Many of the folks and thoughts I've quoted are ones that have moved me and stirred my spirits when they have been lagging or seeminly lacking.

One quote I now have pasted on my computer pays tribute to the power of the human spirit. It is from a wonderful, small but powerful book by Carl Hammerschlag, MD: "The Theft of the Spirit - A Journey to Spiritual Healing" and it goes:

"It doesn't matter how long your spirit lies dormant and unused. One day you hear a song, look at an object, or see a vision, and you feel
its presence. It can't be bought, traded, or annihilated, because its power comes from its story. No one can steal your spirit; you have to give it away. You can always take it back. Find yours."

Sante!

DJ

P.S. - The following is what I had sent to Dr. Bob as well as a variety of kin and kith whom I know off-line. Some of the on-line exchanges here in Babbleland had led me to these and other re-reflections. And now I am off to do more off-line re-organizing and re-alignment...


Some of you have seen this before, most of you haven't. It's an affirmation
of my core beliefs, which I am taking this occasion to publicly re-affirm a
year and a bit later, having strayed on occasion from them. And a
challenging year it has been. As a friend of mine would put it AFLO --
Another f****ng learning opportunity.

The best to you all! If you are open to all options, all options are open to
you.

Namaste!

DJ


----- Original Message -----
Date sent: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 13:25:19 -0800

The following is what I have been working on this morning, and for
the past 43 + years . You have all been my mentors, in your own
unique ways. We build our world on each others shoulders and that
of our ancestors. I was asked to write this piece as part of a
anthology called Whispering Reflections which is a tribute to the
work and spirit of John Denver. The proceeds from the book will go
to various charities. Others who have contributed pieces include
David Suzuki and Ric Careless who are both leading Canadian and
international conservations -- the true conservatives and radicals of
our times. For to be radical means only to go back to our roots...

Towards an Ecology of Spirit..

It's Xmas Day, 1999. The clay which is my body is on fire. It's
transforming. Becoming more resilient? I have faith that it is so.

Seemingly I am alone as I type this, however like all of us I am
surrounded by ghosts. The ghosts of my ancestors and yours.
As Chief Seattle spoke in the mid-1800's: "In all the earth there
is no place dedicated to solitude. At night, when the streets of
your cities and villages shall be silent, and you think them
deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once
filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never
be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the
dead are not altogether powerless."

Nor are the living, if they are truly alive.

Seattle's kith and kin surround me, as do mine and yours. In
what form you ask? Spirit, pure spirit!! The spirit of the land.
The spirit of nature. The spirit of our nature. Can you hear it?
Close your eyes and listen deeply. Listen to your heart beat.
Experience your own seismic shifts.

When we truly connect with Nature and our own nature we
fully realize our impermanence and our inter-connection with
all. That is the source of being, true doing and transformation.
A deep realization that we are but one with the clay that forms
and informs us.

The tide rolls in and the tide rolls out. And sometimes we are
washed clean and sometimes we are washed out. And often
times we miss it all, because we are not connected to the rhythm
of our souls to what the Buddha called our basic goodness.
These themes are explored and elaborated on in Buddha's
Nature by Wes Nisker where he quotes the authors' of What is
Life? who wrote: "We share more than 98 percent of our genes
with chimpanzees, sweat fluids reminiscent of seawater...We
carry our past with us."

So what does it all mean? That we are mean, petty and evil
when we do not connect with our basic goodness. That the root
of all evil against self, others and Nature is based in a dis-
connection with that from which we sprang -- clay. That when
we sin against Nature, we sin against our selves, our ancestors
and our offspring. That it is not yet to late to begin again.

As Tennyson wrote in 1833 in his epic poem Ulysses:
"Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world...
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Pay attention. Show up. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the
results. That's how Angeles Arrien summed up native wisdom in
The Fourfold Path. The Buddha would agree. So would Christ
and a holy host of other spiritual leaders. Join them. Join
yourself. Embrace your clay and your basic goodness and then
we can change our world, together. Global change, so we must
change. Join me. Embrace your spirit and our common Nature.
From here we can do no wrong.

------- End of forwarded message -------

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The mere athlete is brutal and philistine, the mere
intellectual unstable and spiritless. The right
education must tune the strings of the body and
mind to perfect spiritual harmony. -- Plato
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