RedWolf Remarks

Elder's Meditation of the Day - September 10

2010-09-10T20:18:00.000-04:00

"One of the first things Seneca children learned was that they might create their own world, their own environment, by visualizing actions and desires in prayer. The Senecas believed that everything that made life important came from within. Prayer assisted in developing a guideline toward discipline and self control."

--Twylah Nitcsh, SENECA

All permanent and lasting change starts first on the inside and works its way out. Having constant prayer and Creator directed visions helps us to live in harmony. This is the best way to grow strong and become a Warrior. No matter what is going on outside of ourselves, it is our projection that makes it so. It is our projections that even give it any meaning. Another way is each day to turn our life and our will over to the care of the Great Spirit. Then He will show us His desire for us. When we are in alignment to His desire, we become very joyful and very happy.

Our Teacher, Earth Mother

2010-05-06T13:44:00.000-04:00

"But I have learned a lot from trees: sometimes about the weather, sometimes about animals, sometimes about the Great Spirit."

--Walking Buffalo, STONEY

Nature is the greatest teacher on the Earth. Nature produces many different plants, animals, trees, rocks, birds, insects, and weather patterns. Nature designed all these various things to grow and multiply while at the same time live in harmony with each other. We can learn a lot of we observe and study Nature's system of harmony and balance. Today, go sit on a rock and quietly observe and ask to be shown the lessons.

ZEN - Daily Darhma

2010-04-11T13:52:00.000-04:00

There is no way set up for us. Moment after moment we have to find our own
way. Some idea of perfection, or some perfect way which is set up by
someone else, is not the true way for us.

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will
express the universal way. This is the mystery. When you understand one
thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to
understand everything, you will not understand anything.

--Shunryu Suzuki
-Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Elder's Meditation of the Day

2010-04-11T12:46:00.000-04:00

"Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them."

--Thomas Yellowtail, CROW

To know something we must become one with it. We cannot know what a flower smells like until we actually smell it. Close your eyes and experience the fragrance. The Elders say there are two worlds, the Seen World and the Unseen World. To experience the Seen World we need to physically pick the flower and smell it. To experience the Unseen World we need to know about principles, laws and values; and no matter what our mind or our physical senses tell us, we must decide and act on these principles. If someone does wrong to us, we must pray for that person or persons to have peace, happiness and joy in their life. We must not get even or retaliate in any way. Only by doing this can we understand spiritual matters.

Great Spirit, give me your power whenever my weakness shows so I can live by spiritual decisions.

Oneness

2009-08-15T19:26:00.001-04:00

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which
comes within the souls of the people when they realize their relationship,
their oneness with the Universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere,
it is within each of us."

Awareness

2009-08-15T17:54:00.003-04:00

Greetings! Or as my Dear One would say in Blackfoot -Oki! It has been a few months since I have written, and the Good Captain reminded me to post so here it is.

Well its been an interesting year to say the least. Separation, breakdown, rebirth, love, and awareness. It is the beginning of the awareness stage in which I am at on my walk. It is an amazing feeling. Not only to experience the surroundings of nature, but the self surroundings as well. To be aware that emotional pain and suffering is only the ego fighting and manifesting itself to secure what it wants. The insecurities of the self that loves to come out and acknowledging why this is. The quest for enlightenment may not be easy, and may never come to me. But I know to just keep putting one foot in front of the other and being aware on my walk through this life is what I must do.

Just picked up a book "Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior" by Dan Millman. If you have not read "The Way fo the Peaceful Warrior", I Highly suggest it and the rest of the series. The Wisdom is a companion book to The Way. I will be sharing my thoughts on this book on future posts.

Be Well and Safe to you all!

Teachings by Long Standing Bear Chief, Blackfoot

2009-05-13T14:50:00.000-04:00

Believe in the beauty and strength our your own being. Forget the foolish belief that you and your fellow human beings were born evil. Those who would control you all the days of your life on earth perpetuate the belief iihtsipaitapiiyo?pa (Source of Life) made things to have a bad spirit.

Live a life of truth and honesty. This makes you a person of quality and dignity. Truth and honesty are the kind of leadership qualities that attracts others.

Give honor and respect to others regardless of age and situation in life. This quality makes you and others worthy of honor and respect, which makes others, feel worthwhile and fulfilled. Honor and respect empowers others so they can win the day. They will return it to you fourfold.

Honor the earth and all that exists. Be strong in this belief and practice it throughout your life because it makes for a world of kindness that binds all the good things of life together in a circle of harmony.

Be humble but not timid. To be humble is to connect yourself to the stars and the entire universe and makes you aware there is something unique about life that is to be enjoyed without fear. We are people from the stars and because of it we are sacred.

Help others realize that life is a dream . . . . A beautiful dream. Dreamers are the butterflies of life and help others to realize their dreams.

Be humorous and help others to enjoy life and the life of others. Humor makes you attractive. The humorous person has many guests and the one who is invited everywhere because of the joy they bring to the gathering.

Never be afraid to talk matters over with those you disagree with or those you love. The gift of language is a miracle and it is meant to be used to live a life of harmony, joy, love, and respect. Use it well and use it often.

What is described here is leadership and happiness in the broadest sense. These are the qualities that make for a great father, grandmother, mother, teacher, grandfather, lover, traditional leader, friend and a great human being. Best of all you can add to this list.

I give these to you in honor and respect: Long Standing Bear Chief, Blackfoot

What have we learned today about Honor and Respect

2009-04-16T23:34:00.003-04:00

I want to first take a quote from 'A Few Good Men' ..."you don't have to wear a Uniform to have Honor".

On that note here is one way to EARN Respect and have Honor in my mind.
You put yourself out there and take one for the team without caring of the consequences that may happen to you. You go to bat for something that you don't have to do and really doesn't effect you, But you do it to protect those who can't, and to do it, not for glory or recognition, but for what is Right.
That my friends earns respect from others and is Honorable.

Learning from past Mistakes

2009-03-13T10:57:00.004-04:00

You would think that I would have learned by now from many past experiences of doing the same damn thing over and over. It always comes to the same conclusion. And its nobodies fault but my own. Its just like fishing. Hoping for the big one, the best fish, but usually you get nothing or something that you have to throw back. Or you think you got the big one only to realize that its just weeds. And when you finally get the best one on your line and fight and fight to keep it....Snap! There goes the line and the dream of getting the big one. Yet I keep going back for more, again and again.

Tonights Remark

2009-03-10T22:55:00.002-04:00

Given the fact that us two legged are so out of touch with reality, and so disconnected from Mother Earth, Which do you think we are riding.....a Bullet train going 120mph into a side of a Mountain or an F-18 going mach 2 into a fireball?

Anyway trying to figure out what Brother Wolf would do in a situation of losing his pack and left to wander Mother Earth by himself. What would he feel? What would his first response be other than just survive?

Just something to think about

2009-02-26T08:32:00.004-05:00

Oki All!
Something to think about if you have the time to watch it. Make up your own mind about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kHhc67GopM&feature=related

Full Circle

2009-02-23T19:25:00.001-05:00

We cannot all sit on the same side of the Fire. A Council Fire forms a circle, not a line or a square. When we move to the side, we still sit at the Fire with our Brothers and Sisters, but as we move away from one we move toward another. The circle, like the Dream Hoop, brings us ever back to where we start. Any time words of respect and love are spoken, they will return as given. A harsh word runs forever in the circle, eventually vanishing from the wear against itself. Love settles within the Circle, embracing it and thereby lasting forever, turning within itself. The Medicine Wheel is the circle of life, starting with birth and continuing through out our life's until death, when we have gone full circle. The Medicine wheel has four Direction, each direction offering it's own lessons, color, and animal guide. There are two paths shown which cross in the center, at which point for me is the heart. (for when you work from your heart, you can reach all directions.) The path from East to West is the path of spirits, (the Blue Road) the path from South to North is our physical Walk (the Red Road ).

East - beginnings, purity, family, innocence, amazement of Life
South - youth - passions of life, friendships, self-control
West - Adulthood - solitude, stillness, going inside oneself, reflection
North - Place of the Ancient Ones who have gone over - place of wisdom
Above - Freedom of mind, body, spirit
Below - Nurturing, Mother, life

- Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux

Retort to previous remark

2009-02-15T13:30:00.001-05:00

I guess its up to each individual whether its in the Seneca Nation or other to keep the old ways, traditions, languages etc... going.

A Quick little remark............

2009-02-15T12:00:00.001-05:00

I find it complete Bullshit that there are less than 100 people on this planet that can speak The Seneca Language, yet in schools or anywhere else Spanish, French whatever... is being driven down everyone's throats.

Remark of the day

2009-01-29T11:23:00.004-05:00

Greetings to you all! Ok to the 2 or 3 people that actually read this blog. Just wanted to write some of the random thoughts as of late. Its amazing how the Great Spirit works. Everything happens for a reason. Each path taken, a series of lessons to learn. Each person that crosses your path, even for a moment, having an effect on your life. Each friend that you have made, even if you are no longer in contact with, helping shape who you are. But it is those friends that have made a difference in your life, that have touched your heart and soul in some way that I hold dear and will never forget for as long as I live. Thank you to my dearest friends for helping me on my path and for being there when I needed you most. And in reference to my previous post, that is love.

Love and Attachment

2009-01-25T00:54:00.001-05:00

Something I've had for awhile and never posted....

LOVE AND ATTACHMENT

"...there is a difference between loving-kindness in the sense of wishing
beings to be happy, and being personally attached to someone. When we are
attached to someone, they can seem very close, and the kind of involvement
that is based on attachment is what we use the word "love" to mean. This
type of love is very different in nature from the type of love that is based
on altruistic concern. In the type of love that is based upon attachment,
you may have thoughts like, "Oh, I would die for you," and so on. This
seems very altruistic, but is all fundamentally based upon attachment to
that person as a part of your world.

The love that is based on attachment is not really love at all, because it
is fundamentally self-serving. The sign of this is that as long as that
person or those persons serve the function that you want them to have in
your world, as long as they do for you what you want, then you seem to love
them so much. Then as soon as they stop being what you want them to be, the
love vanishes. This means it was not love at all, it was attachment. What
we mean by actual love here is a concern for the welfare of other beings
that is completely devoid of any kind of "payback" personally, and that has
nothing whatsoever to do with hoping that that person will act a certain way
toward you and fearing that they will not."

-- "Living in Compassion" by Ven. Bardor Tulku Rinpoche

Note: - Take it from me - this kind of love is incredibly damaging and fraught with danger and despair and failure. One cannot survive this type of non-love love. You are leaving yourself open to failure and disappointment and heartache if you are in this type of relationship. There is no healthy way out of this attachment so when you find yourself at the threshold of loss, it is best that you do not fight it but let it happen and learn from it.
I have lived my whole life fighting the principals of attachment calling it love when really what it was a desperate connection to non-life. All of the many women in my life except one were facilitators of this attachment and the causation of such incredible pain that I would have rather suffered the incredible torture meted out by Hitler and his henchmen in the years of War that were a direct result of attachment.
You cannot live in this type of attachment calling it love. It is not Love it is a slow death that never leaves you alone and will eventually destroy you unless you learn and bring yourself out of that life to one full of a few friends who know the difference between attachment and love.
I am now where I sought to be for more than fifty years and I can tell all that this is an incredible fate that not everyone is allowed to encounter. I know I run long here but this is not something to take lightly and if you want Truth in your life come visit me and I will help you to see it before it is too late. ( If indeed you are ready to see it and make the change happen that will be required for full freedom from the suffering that makes up this samsara.) -Aho- Two Feathers

Sands of Time

2009-01-17T09:50:00.001-05:00

Time goes by
Like a bolt of lightning
A flash of brilliance only lasting for a moment
In a blink of an eye
Watching you grow passes by so fast
Wishing every moment would last forever

Chorus:
Sands of time
Flowing through the hour glass
Wish I could stop the flow
To make every moment last
Watching you grow
Growing up so fast
I wish every moment would last and last

Like a clear blue sky
Warm rays of the sun
You light up my soul and warm my heart
The midnight sky
Stars shining bright
Always watching over us
As I will always watch over you

Chorus:

The universe
So many wonderful things it holds
The wonder of you in my life
Makes my heart and soul
Want to cry with everlasting joy.

‘RedWolf’

My Mind

2009-01-16T01:06:00.001-05:00

Look into my mind
What will you see?
At first only pitch black
Searching further you may find the real me

Wading in the darkness
A slight glimpse of light
You walk through the darkness
To see what you will find – (in me)

Further and further you go
As visions pass you by
Memories long gone
To the back of my mind

Through space and time in my head
Leading to the light that you see
All of the experiences and memories
That came together to create me

Now you stand
In the light of my mind
In amazement of what you see
You are staring at you
You stare at you
Inside of me.

‘RedWolf’

Lakota Prayer

2009-01-15T13:57:00.002-05:00

It is true that many of the old ways have been lost. But just as the rains restore the Earth after a drought, so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the Way and give it new life.
We ask that this happen not just for the Red People but for all the people, that they all might live.

Sometime you just have to...

2009-01-15T13:11:00.001-05:00

I just have to say that even if its 9 degrees outside, it is worth every minute to go out on the deck with a handful of sunflower seeds and have the Chickadees feed from my hand. Its the little things in life like that which make it all worth while.

Choices

2009-01-15T12:08:00.000-05:00

Gone through it a thousand times in my head
And I’m so damned confused
All I want is to be happy in life
And I don’t think I can make it there with you.

The choices I’ve made, second-guessing myself
All I want to do is break down and cry
In this indecision I’m losing myself
I need to be true to myself and not live a lie

Every choice, a cause and effect
Every step, a ripple in the ocean
I can’t take any of it back
Everything already set in motion
Only time will tell were the choice may lead
Which path will be set before me
It’s the choices that I’ve made that defines who I am
Mistake or not, their apart of me

Mistakes that are made are a part of life
And people around us may feel the pain
The greatest mistake is not learning from them
Without it we will never grow inside, just go insane.

So I need to get off my ass and start walking the path
Just sitting here, I will die
Continuing on and starting my life anew
So if I must I leave you behind, so life doesn’t pass me by

‘RedWolf’

I've been gone for awhile dealing with life. So to Start back..a poem

2008-11-29T20:13:00.001-05:00

A Letter to my Son

A letter to my son
With all of my heart
You are one of two things
That keeps me from falling apart

Giving meaning to my life
You and your sister have done
Take care of her always
Especially after I’m gone

Follow your own path
And become the man you were born to be
Keep in your heart and soul always
My love for you and the memory of me

I will always be here for you
I will never be too far away
Just say the word
And I will rush to you
Nothing ever keep me away

To my Son I Love You
See you in your dreams.

‘Daddy’
‘RedWolf’

10/24/08

I Will Never Forget!

2008-09-11T20:15:00.002-04:00

Seven Philosophies for the Native American Man - 7th

2008-09-11T20:13:00.000-04:00

Seventh Philosophy TO MYSELF

I will think about what kind of person I want to be when I am an Elder.
I will start developing myself now to be this person.
I will walk with the Great Spirit and the grandfathers at my side. I will develop myself to remain positive. I will develop a good mind.
I will examine myself daily to see what I did good and what I need to improve. I will examine my strength and weaknesses, then I will ask the Creator to guide me. I will develop a good mind.
Each day, I will listen to the Creators voice in the wind. I will watch nature and ask to be shown a lesson which will occur on my path.
I will seek out the guiding principles, which guided my ancestors. I will walk in dignity, honor and humility, conducting myself as a warrior.
I will seek the guidance of the Elders so that I may maintain the knowledge of culture, ceremonies, and songs, and so that I may pass these on to the future generations.
I choose to do all these things myself, because no one else can do them for me.
I know I cannot give away what I don't have, so I will need to walk the talk.

Seven Philosophies for the Native American Man - 6th

2008-08-30T08:59:00.001-04:00

Sixth Philosophy TO THE CREATOR

As an Indian man, I realize we make no gains without the Great Spirit being in our lives. Neither I nor anything I attempt to do, will work without the Creator. Being Indian and being spiritual has the same meaning. Spirituality is out gift from the Great One. This day, I vow to walk the Red Road. As an Indian man, I will return to the traditional and spiritual values which have guided my ancestors for the past generations. I will look with new eyes on the powers of our ceremonies and religious ways, for they are important to the very survival of our people. We have survived and are going to grow and flourish spiritually. We will fulfill our teachings and the purpose that the Creator has given us with dignity. Each day, I will pray and ask for guidance. I will commit to walk the Red Road, or whatever the spiritual way is called in my own culture. If I am Christian, I will be a good one. If I am traditional, I will walk this road with dedication. If each if us can do these things then others will follow. From this day forward, I will reserve time and energy for spirituality, seeking to know the Creators will.