The Chalice of Wisdom - Part 1

Lakota Instructions for Living

Friend do it this way - that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.

And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.

If you do it that way - that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One - whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going To Be.

passed down from White Buffalo Calf Woman

Prayer of The EarthBirdSkySong

I am the bead on her wrist
the prays
to the mountain
that sings to the Sky
arching above every morning
like an Angel’s
paradise messenger

I am the bird you have all been waiting for
I mark return
I mark the closing of cycles
the preparation for crossing
world-bridging dimensions
I am the bird that flies in all 7 directions,
its wings igniting your heart to remember
Why you are here -

I am the bird that calls you to ask Who you are?
Do you know your star ancestors?
Do you know your true face of light
codes ancient stone
light ancient love
love ancient being

I am the bird siren of stars
seer of planetary cycles
I am the moonsunbird, the bird of spiral flight
that governs the art of synchronicity
I am the bird who breathes dreams
woven, we can dream ourselves wounded or whole

I am the bird flying the banner of redemption
I am the bird who eats pain with the light of forgiveness
I am the bird who dries your tears with its feathered shawls

I am the bead
on the wrist
of her hand
that prays
to the mystery of night
dark sky dreamtime
death of light
mudra of surrender
like a butterfly dying in flight

On her hand that prays for the courage to be
What is asked of us to be?
Are her hands really there? Are they just the dream of the bead?

The only true ground is emptiness
so let us pave life with laughter
born of invincible trust in the divine love
that vigilantly accompanies us
through this world of illusion

On her hands that pray to the self-illuminating flower
dancing in the womb of the soul

I am the bird that cries out waterfalls and volcanoes
flowing and erupting,
screeching to purify
shattering the weak foundations of pretense

I am the bird that is calling you
to learn how to keep your sails up in the winds of Great Spirit

I am the bird carrying roses, carrying omens,
carrying comfort, carrying signals,
carrying transitions
carrying justice through fire
peace through water

I am the bird who brings swords
I am the bird who brings scrolls
I am the bird who brings smoke
I am the Dakini bird who brings the mandala of space
and all timeless time

I speak wind, I speak fire
I speak water, I speak earth
I speak ether, I am pure
As a creature, as a starbeing

I am the bead on the hand that prays
to the bird in her heart’s eye
that soars to the song of the mountain’s tears,
cascading winds blowing in the space of her soul

I am the bird that dances to the naked, raw
immaculate law of life
as it is

I am the bird who brings the
Rainbow Protection Belt around the World
holding hands with the Generations to come

I am the bird sitting on the highest branch
of the tree of living prophecy
I am the snake, I am the fruit
I am the feathered-star, primal-star merged
I am the bird singing Return
I am the EarthBirdSkySongMoonSunHeartofNow

I am here * now * as the bead on your hand that prays
to the one beating heart of life
whose golden flowers
breathe inside of us.

Eden Sky
http://galacticculture.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/prayer-of-the-earthbirdskysong/


Love Always
mudra

THE WARRIOR’S PRAYER

I am what I am.

In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.

In softness I have strength.

In silence I walk with the gods.

In peace I understand myself and the world.

In conflict I walk away.

In detachment I am free.

In respecting all living things, I respect myself.

In dedication I honor the courage within me.

In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.

In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.

In freedom I have power.

In my individuality, I express the God-Force within me.

In service I give of what I have become.

I am what I am:
Eternal, immortal, universal, and infinite.

And so be it.

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by Stuart Wilde