Actualizing our
Life
Purpose
by Dhyani
Ywahoo
 How to
establish the priorities in your life, to make the right order? The first
priority in life is to be true to the creative principle within yourself -- to
recognize that you have the gift of life and to be a caretaker of that gift.
Second is the responsibility to your parents, your family, and your friends --
to see the best within them. To call forth the best within others, to understand
your special purpose and reason for life, and not to give away what you know
until you are certain it will grow -- that is important.
How to be sure of your purpose?
Look at what comes easily. What are the gifts that most easily manifest in your
life in this present moment? What are the areas that you feel called to work in?
Are the skills there or not? When do you feel the most clear flow of energy?
What part of the Earth are you comfortable upon? As we analyze that energy, as
we analyze the sense of fullness and relaxation in the heart and the sense of
feeling strong or weak, we are more able to make a clear determination of what
our particular skills are and what areas we are to develop further in this
lifetime.
Sometimes we have four or five
purposes in one life. Some people flower swiftly and realize many
accomplishments. Others are like some very rare orchid, slowly developing and
blossoming, almost in secret, and then years and years later, when people have
forgotten that the seed was planted there, it flowers. So we needn't be
concerned about when or how we recognize ourselves to please others. We
understand our true entity in accordance with our life purpose and the
unfoldment of our own vision and the accumulations of thought force around us
from this and other lifetimes. The wise person goes to the heart of the matter,
examining the heart of his or her own nature.
First responsibility: to know
yourself, understand your own mind. Knowledge of self is knowledge of will, the
clear intention to be, seeing its threads as it weaves through all aspects of
life. And it is each one's responsibility to understand one's family, one's
relatives.
Understanding of your family is
recognition of the lunar and solar energy within yourself, the positive, the
negative, the mother, the father -- and how within the center of your spine
there is emptiness and the potential of the childlike wisdom body coming forth.
Your relationship with your co-workers and your clan is also very important, and
the land you live in, and the nation.
As you more finely tune your
concentration of mind upon manifesting your potential in a creative and
harmonious way, there is the reciprocity of the universe saying, "That is good".
For the young college student, it is the unexpected grant; for the business
person, it may be people saying, "I want that product". Always the universe is
responding to our question, "This is good, this is correct", or perhaps, "Wait
upon that". So we don't make a decision alone. We make our decision in
relationship to the world around us. How is my duty as an individual, how are my
gifts as an individual benefiting the world? How is it coming back? Can I write
something that will help the people?
Sometimes we are aware of our
gifts and wonder what we will need to bring them clear. How to turn aside what
obscures our great potential? This is very important. Here you may call upon the
creative power of ritual. Make a special place, a shrine area, a praying place,
a studying place, observing your own nature and all of the world from that
place. Make offerings of sage and sweetgrass or frankincense and myrrh, whatever
is good for you, to clarify the space. In the mind's eye, in the heart's eye,
surround the area with light, that you may have clear direction, clear
connection with the seed of your perfect mind. Then look and see if there are
certain attitudes of mind that stand in the way. Sometimes people are afraid of
success; that is a common fear. How to overcome this fear of success, of
accomplishing your goal? That is laziness, actually, because you know you can
accomplish, but all these little ifs and what-nots come up.
How to overcome those ifs and
what-nots? How is it that we have lost our self-empowerment? How is it that we
have lost the essential peace that is within each of us? What are the attitudes
and thoughts that stand in the way of our seeing clearly that which we are? In
the Native American way of understanding, the first illusion we are faced with
is the illusion of pride, of superior and inferior. In the circle all things are
related, neither up nor down. Nothing is alone; everything is together. We are
in the family of life. Each of us is carrying that spark of will, that spark of
clear mind. We each have a special purpose and reason for being here in this
time. To uncover that sacred purpose we take a vision quest, a journey within.
In a journey to the Temple of Understanding we can clarify our understanding and
come to true knowing of our gift and purpose in this time.
The Temple of Understanding is
within us and all around. Within this temple there is a great library where the
records of all things are kept. The library is a study room for each and every
one of us, in which we have stored away all the programs of our expression in
this life and the other lives that are coexisting. As you look, you want first
to affirm the purpose of being here, to do good, and then to look at the
patterns of living that have been moving you through this life, to see if they
are in harmony with your primary purpose in this lifetime. If they are not,
there is a fire that always burns and never smokes, there within the temple.
This fire is where the old patterns are to be thrown as we write out a new model
of consciousness, a very clear affirmation of our purpose.
If we sense fear in ourselves
about meeting our divine qualities and the power of our being, the creative
force, we want to take that script and burn it and write a new one, a script
that says, "I will be all that I am to be and will manifest all of my gifts." It
is also good to look at relationships, to see how we share with other people.
Where are the points of least resistance and clearest communication? Affirm
those bridges, those fibers of life. And the obstructions, the attitudes and
patterns of relationship that stand in the way of your fully manifesting your
potential, they are to be taken down, released, offered to the
fire.
Basically, there are seven kinds
of human beings, that is how the Tsalagi people have said. There is the person
who is moving along the line of will; that may be the timekeeper, the drummer.
There is the Peacekeeper, the White Chief who never sheds blood; that is the
person along the compassionate way, the one who always seeks to bring peace and
turn aside anger through prayer and generous actions. There is the one who
builds through envisioning, the one who sees along the golden light of clear
mind and brings forth with hand and word and action what is beneficial to all.
Then there are the builders of lovely places, who bring the dream into solid
formation for the benefit of all and who have a way of understanding and
communicating along the entire stream of the clan mind, the group mind. And
there are the scientists, the ones who have looked at the particulars, who have
watched very carefully to see, "Oh, this and this together has a certain effect
upon the environment, this and this together brings forth the wisdom of
bioresonance; the mountain man has lofty thoughts, and the man by the shore has
the wisdom of the waves." This is the science of bioresonance, seeing the
particular wisdom within each one and recognizing that it is all one. And there
is the person who understands the wisdom of the heart, one who is devoted to the
ideal, to bringing forth for the benefit of all beings what is good. This one is
concerned, not with science, not with the how, but just with being and doing,
complete devotion for the benefit of all the people. Then there is the shaker,
the transformer, the lifeforce maker. That is one who shakes aside old thought
forms, turning aside what needs to be turned aside. That is the person who wears
the amethyst; that is the person who glows with the violet flame.
Each of us at some point in our
life is radiating and resonating according to those different rays. As we come
to complete integration we make a decision: Will we continue our work for just
our own enlightenment alone, or will we continue to work for the benefit of all
beings? Will we continue on Earth, or shall we become the seed of a future life,
a future planet? These islands in times of confusion, these beings who decide to
make a way station for the expanding mind, they are very wondrous teachers. My
teacher, my grandmother Nellie, she has become a planet. Her heart was so big,
her prayers were so pure. Always she brought people home to eat with her, and
sometimes her children and others would say, "Why is this?" And she would look
and smile and say, "Have you enough, my dear?" She was reminding us of the
abundant universe and the power of compassion. The gift of giving is the gift of
receiving. So it was her path to carry her way beyond this time to create a
resting place for those minds that have expanded beyond the learning of the
Earth. And others decide to stay on Earth until the last person, the last being,
recognizes and understands the Mystery of life.
Be aware of the power of mind,
remember that we are all in process, unfolding, and let yourself know freedom
from the suffering of doubt. We can choose, we can weave; we hold the form, we
dance it, and the moment comes when it is recalled in each of us. We are human
beings. We can live in harmony and dignity. We can make peace, we empower
ourselves to be peaceful. That is an affirmation, that is a hope, that is a
vision. By the power of its sound it is a reality.
May our hearts ever recognize the
clear light of mind. Let us affirm our wholeness as human beings. Let us affirm
the mode of complementary resolution in ourselves and in all our relationships.
Let us honor the light of clear mind in each one we meet. The Beauty Path, the
Great Peace, is the meeting of ourselves, the perception of our minds, and the
cessation of those waves and thought forms that create discord. Let us sow the
seed of peace in all our actions, thoughts, and words. Let us renew the sacred
hoop.
 This article was excerpted from:
Voices of Our Ancestors
by Dhyahi Ywahoo.
Reprinted
by arrangement (©) with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston. www.shambhala.com.
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Dhyani Ywahoo is a member of the traditional Etowah
Band of the Eastern Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation and the twenty-seventh generation
to caretake the Ywahoo lineage. She is also founder and director of Sunray
Meditation Society, an international spiritual society dedicated to planetary
peace. Sunray meditation groups meet regularly in many cities in the United
States and Canada. The practice is open to all; instruction is provided. Sunray
Tapes and Literature offers audio and video cassettes and written materials on
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portion of the proceeds of all Sunray activities supports selected Native
American projects. For more information, please write: Sunray Meditation
Society, P.O. Box 308, Bristol, VT 05443 or visit www.sunray.org
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