Posts Tagged ‘river’

Message from the Hopi Elders

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

 

Our wisdom matures through life's opportunities!

Our wisdom matures through life

Greeting!

 

I have shared the message to humanity from the  

 

Hopi Elders before, but I would like to expand upon the message from my perspective to give us clarity about our future and empower an attitude of flexibility in how we navigate through these times. 
I’ll begin by pulling certain lines from the letter and expanding on the meaning.

One of the opening lines is:  

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

This is the hour.  I have been saying for years that we require building the foundation of our inner world as the external world becomes less predictable.

The you, who you have always dreamed you would become, must emerge.  This is the hour for you to arrive back to yourself and let the wisdom you have gained throughout your life guide you.  These are the times where your learning’s and your life wisdoms are tested. 

Ask yourself:

1.     What am I really attached too?

2.     What is ultimately important to me?

 The thought I’d like to share with you is a message from the master in India I studied with.  He would say to us: “At the end of our lives we will be asked to separate from the one thing we are most attached to, our bodies.  Practice detachment while in the body and know you will take nothing of the illusion of this world to the other side.”  

We become more of what we think about most often.  Chose what you focus on and dwell upon regularly most carefully because within this choice, you will find yourself creating your heaven or your hell.  Be congruent in your thought word and action.

 The next paragraph I’ll share with you is another powerful statement by the elders:

“This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

See who is there with you and celebrate.”

 When the elders said: this could be a good time”  I know that  no matter what the circumstances we find ourselves in, we can chose our attitude as we navigate our way through the unpredictable.  Our attitude is the only thing we absolutely have control over.

The next statement is perhaps the most dramatic in the letter:

“There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.”

The river is the river of change and yes we are witnessing amazing change in every section of the globe from Obama being elected to the complete decline of the automotive industry as if overnight.  Things that seemed impossible are now possible and things that seemed solid are now fluid.  We cannot hold onto the shore or the things that we have always thought was solid because it is now changing very fast.  If we attempt to hold onto false values and hollow desires we will suffer greatly because this is an intense time of spiritual revolution.      

The next profound sentence from the elders:

“Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

  See who is there with you and celebrate.”

We require letting go of the shore, or what we have always thought was secure and stable and go to the middle of life’s experiences.  I believe going to the middle of the river simply means to go to the middle of your perception and judge neither good nor bad.  Be attached to whatever you consider sacred for you and strengthen your resolve to focus your mind there and KNOW the river has a destination. 

Either there is random chaos or perfect order and I choose to believe that there is perfect order.  As the elders say the river has a destination.  So the falling apart is a birth of what is to come and a dismantling of the dream we have all been living in. There has never been a birth without labor. The world is birthing forth something very new and the labor has begun.

See who is there with you and celebrate.” Be in community with others and know that you are known by the way you treat others. Chose joy in the middle of change and put a smile on your face, evaluating daily what is really important to you.  We are called upon to simplify, center, be in joy and pay it forward to others in our lives because the day of the lone wolf is over.  Be in community with others and gather likeminded people around you.

The last lines from this letter are the most impactful to me personally:

“Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.”

Harness the power of your word because our language choices directs our thinking and we cannot afford the lazy luxury of negative thoughts.  Choose to be in joy with charismatic optimism.  Whatever is sacred to you, live it more, speak it more, act it more and be a shining example of the highest thoughts you can think, but most importantly demonstrate what you believe in your actions toward others.

It is not in the times of prosperity that tests and polishes who we believe ourselves to be, but the times of uncertainty that offer us the opportunities to shine and prove that we have become the ones we have been waiting for.

These are powerful times of change, use them as a vehicle to shine forward into your world and relationships the holy relationship you have with yourself and be the one to hold up the light for others when they have drop there on.

As we do this, others will hold the light up for us when we have forgotten and together in the river we will celebrate each other.      

  

A Message from the Hopi Elders

You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.

Here are the things that must be considered:

Where are you living? 
What are you doing? 
What are your relationships? 
Are you in right relation? 
Where is your water? 
 Know our garden. 
 It is time to speak your Truth. 
 Create your community. 
 Be good to each other.       

 And do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel like they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off toward the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

See who is there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves!
For the moment we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lonely wolf is over.

Gather yourselves!

Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

 

Love & Light
Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Healing Humanity Means Winning the War Within

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

Are You Awake?

Are You Awake?

Are you awake to what is possible?

The world is calling out for humanity to awaken to the great gifts it has been given, to awaken to the knowledge of the divine order inherent in our family systems. If we would take the time to understand them, the triumphs and tragedies of our ancestors are incredibly revealing. They reveal our soul purpose and help us to know we are made in the image and likeness of the Divine. By nurturing, studying and recreating our internal circumstances-our inner emotional world-we can empower ourselves to positively and permanently impact what is happening around us.

 Let this be the moment in history that you decided to stand up and be the most beautiful human being possible.

  • Let this be the moment in history that you let go of that which you were attached to.
  • Let this be the moment in history that you halted your obsessions with the mundane and with the things you could not change.
  • And finally, let this be the moment in history that you decided to STOP WASTING TIME.

 How can we ever attempt to understand and overcome the conflicts and wars that exist on this planet until we each become accountable for winning the mini wars that exist within our own minds? People that operate from a place of pain, suffering, lack or any other unresolved emotion will not perpetuate success. They cannot create a real, lasting shift in culture or the dynamic between themselves and others.

When we understand the river of time which we are traveling, we will know that all things change constantly, and change is the only consistency we have. It is not the events that occur in time within our lives that cause the pain. It is the meaning we have assigned to those events that creates our Heaven or our Hell. It is the focus of our minds that either releases us or imprisons us. Time is like a river, and events in our lives are like leaves passing by us in the current. Which leaves do we choose to pick up and examine? For how long to we hold each leaf in our grasp? And which ones do we choose to let quietly float by?

What if you spend your time obsessing on the story of how it has been, yet the way it has been contains the exact circumstances that created and evolved you? What if you spend your life blaming, regretting and condemning the people and the secret teachers who have arrived to show you the way? What if it all happened out of a loving intention to evolve your spiritual wisdom and maturity?

Be the Love you are. Remain in the new story of your outcome. Create different internal representations-different pictures, sounds, dialogs and feelings-by imagining vividly enough to where you feel them deeply. Recreate your past with the power to redefine what has occurred, and distill the wisdom from your experiences with a blessing upon your lips for the ancestral teachers you have had and the order and perfection that is moving us all back to a state of Oneness.

If we can begin to re-language and re-imagine our experiences, we will think and feel differently about our lives and the human condition in general. We will remain in a more optimal and consistent emotional state that allows us the freedom to open and direct our imagination and focused mind toward what we truly desire to create in our world. We can then become the men and women we have always known we could be. We can then master the art of living in this world of seeming victimization as people who expect and direct the quantum field of possibility into existence based upon our freedom to cease the endless story of what did and did not happen. We will be free to create our future with compassion and fulfill what our ancestors could not. We will live with a blessing on our lips for all who went before us in our ancient ancestral lineage.

While existing within the density of our bodies in a world full of fear, all our experiences can culminate in the awakening to our divine inheritance.

Love & Light

Love & Light

Gary De Rodriguez