Guest guest Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 Dearest brother Temba, My heart too has been very heavy for a long time because of how our ancestors chose to use and abuse the indigenous peoples and the very land. I am part Cherokee, and of course, White. Yet, I may also have some black blood because my great great and great grandparents owned slaves. I remember how shocked I was when I learned of this. I also remember being taken out the back porch to look across the field to the stand of trees in the distance. This was, I was told, a " slave ditch, " where the black people fleeing slavery would hide in their journey on the underground railroad. I was horrified, yet I could not tell anyone my feelings. I was happy they had a place to hide on their escape route. I remember going to church there, in Tidewater Virginia, and it was before the Civil Rights Era, so the black people had to sit in the balcony, as far away from the whites as possible. This hurt my young heart. Dear brother, you have done so much for so many; you yourself have likely been the target or subject of racism, and it isn't just racism. A lot of what " looks like " racism is really or is also classism. The upper and middle classes not accepting those who were and are lower on the economic rung. I should beg your forgiveness for what my family did. But Temba, please, please do not take this pain on. You can in gather so many people to help in whatever ways may be possible, and you do so much. Please keep your strength in Amma. If you make yourself part of the cause, it may be harder to be part of the solution because your grief, perhaps, might get in your way. I say this as someone who has strongly felt this grief. When my mother took me to a new high school to look it over, the Principal apologized to her because there were so many blacks. I was shocked. Why would he do such a thing. But in the area where I lived, there were only whites in the schools. When I was very little I found someone to play with in my (paternal) grandparent's neighborhood. We had such a good time; I was so happy that I came home and told my grandmother and my aunt about it. Then I was really in trouble, getting yelled at, and even the next day, my aunt saying what would be the all to familiar punch line, " Well, if you love them so much, why don't you marry one? " !!!!!!!! I was just a child. I didn't understand. I don't know how I escaped having the racist attitudes of my family passed down to me; I never identified at all with what they said and did, but only continued to feel shocked, horrified, and then as I grew older, very sad for them ... to be trapped in these vicious untruths. And these were people, please understand, who were Christian and who were very serious about their religion. To me it just never made sense. During my working years, in my own way I did what I could. In one peace group I worked for, I helped create a multicultural info/action " kit " for teachers to use with school children. Later as I began to get more into my Native American roots, I created something called the " Earth Blessing Ceremony. " This was very much experiential, not just me getting up in front of a group and singing, but instead getting the group in a circle and having them directly participate in all aspects, from saging the group to singing the chants. I was very blessed to be able to do this in a variety of settings with a variety of age groups, from small children to adults. I have been saddened by the loss of my voice because I miss this. Yet, even in my art, there is that influence. My latest work has been 4 " Medicine Sheilds, " each with a different animal. These are my Animal Totems, but I feel others could identify with them. I still have two to complete. You are doing good, important work/seva, dear Temba. Please don't fall on your sword. We all need you. Jai Jai Ma ~ Linda P.S. If there is a central group or agency that I could donate to I might be able to make a small contribution periodically that way. To physically help is beyond my means, and the other thing I can also do is pray. But please understand Temba that your work is valued; you stand for many of us. Let them know their sister Linda cares. The link made me very sad, but I saw a lot of this with my own eyes when I lived in New Mexico. On the one hand the commercialization of Native American culture by white people for white consumers, and, on the other hand, the devastating poverty. Temba wrote: dear beloved family and darling children of AMMA.if there is anyone out there who has a little spare time, an open heart and would like to serve the poorest community in this nation,please call AMMAs sun temba @ 641-233-8255. the spiritual masters have said that until the native american sitution is worked out in this country,lo to this country.it is so sad to me that this country is the suppossed richest country on the planet ,yet we have third world poverty right here in good ole n.america and to make it so sad,it is the indiginous people of this land.the same people that welcomed us into this country with open hearts and hands are now starving and freezing to death. only AMMA and those beings with love awareness could look into this dark situation and bring light to it.if no one can help in a physical sense.can you all just please help the AWARENESS of this situation increase.that is all i ask.let people know so their hearts can make the decision in how they can help **************Play online games for FREE at Games.com! 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Guest guest Posted October 26, 2008 Report Share Posted October 26, 2008 dear beloved sister and darling daughter of AMMA.you are very precious and dear to this heart and have a home in this heart forever,for indeed that is where our beloved AMMA LIVES!SHE LIVES beloved sister!as long as this body has breath in it,it will seek to please HER through serving HER forgotten children,which i am one. a couple of weeks ago ,it was friday and this child was engulfed in service and so out of touch with time , that he thought that it was tuesday. its like i am going crazy in a good way.i can not stop serving!this is proof to temba,that it is not him that is doing anything!SHE fills my heart and compells it to serve in the way that it does.temba does not have any strength on his own.this is reality!SHE does what SHE does through all of HER children for HER own reasons.SHE alone loves us all so much. i am nothing.temba has no control,he is compelled.AMMA has given this child a gift through allowing him to serve.it is through HER love that this happens.HER love will never cease in this LIFE or any of our lives.for temba to stop serving, would mean that HER love has ceased in his life and that could never happen beloved sister.HER WILL IS PERFECT AND ALSO UNSTOPPABLE!it is by way of HER WILL that we do what we do,not ours. dear beloved linda,AMMAs sun is not afraid to feel anyones pain.how can a mother be told,not to feal the pain ,or take on the pain of HER children?what mother would not accept the torments of hell if she could free her child from it?fortunately this is not what AMMA has asked this child to do.SHE knows that he could not handle that as of yet.SHE gives us all what we can endure. what SHE ask of this child is to simply share what SHE gives him with everyone that he can,exspecially those that our currently suffering.that in this day and time,just happens to be the majority of the planet.many of you are in tremendous pain right now. this heart willingly shares that with all of you and i offer it to the LOTUS FEET of our beloved AMMA in tears of compassion.sorrow is indeed the greatest GURU!when we cry tears of compassion for one,we cry for ALL.a little love is all we have,but my heart believes to AMMA that it is everything. i beleive that if we all share this pain with one another , it will reduce it for everyone .on the other side of pain is COMPASSION.when we are willing to share anothers burdens,it is called COMPASSION.this is what Christ meant when he said,to pick up your cross and follow me! here is something AMMA taught this heart.when we are in pain,if we immediately think of the pain of others and pray that they experience HER LOVE AND BLISS in its fullness,we ourselves will experience HER bliss. BE A SPIRITUAL SPONGE!ABSORB THE PAIN OF THE WORLD AND THEN LET HER SQUEEZE THE SPONGE OF YOUR HEART OUT!WHEN SHE SQUEEZES THE SPONGE OF YOUR HEART OUT,u WILL EXPERIENCE BLISS.AMMA says that the tears of the devotee are the light of the world.SHE also says that when a devotee crys devotional tears of compassion ,it is the same as when a yogi is in SAHMADI. sorrow and pain and the praying from your heart that ALL BEINGS be released from their suffering is the sure road to this experience.this happens by way of HER GRACE alone,but dont seek this experience,just long for HER love to be shared with all. once this happens to you,beloved sister,SHE gives you a vision,which we may call a glimpse into HER WILL.it was after crying tears to HER in a prison cell that AMMA showed me HER vision to build homes for HER forgotten children in n.america.now dear sister,three years later,this is happening! so dear linda ,if temba wanted to stop what his body does for HER,he could not!no one can OUT WILL GODS WILL for your life.it is a BIG ego trip to think that anything could stop AMMAs will!how could this little ego of mine,or my issues stop HER WILL for this LIFE beloved sister! this child has come to discover that anything he asked someone else to do ,he should be willing to do himself.the reason AMMA told this heart to initiate the apology to the Indiginous people of this land and the african americans of this land ,as well as the white americans of this land is to begin the process of healing for humanity on a deeper level.some may say , " who is he to think he can do this? " my response would be simply that i am someone who longs for the liberation of every heart.someone who knows that until we face life fearlessly,we as a whole humanity, will not live inside of each others hearts in the way that all of our hearts truly long to. dear linda,a lot of people have stuffed these things way down and until someone brings it up,it never gets dealt with.this is what has happened dear sister.we have all stuffed these things way down and have come to a place of being comfortable with living in denial. this is way it takes courage to bring it up and COMPASSIONATELY FACE IT.to look it in the face with the infinite courage of love and to see it as an oppurtunity to grow,heal and evolve into humanity's next stage of spiritual evolution.dear beloved linda,this child accepst his dharma,what he said was from the heart,AMMA with his heart love all. Ammachi: nierika: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:37:35 -0400 Re: to Temba about the forgotten ones Dearest brother Temba,My heart too has been very heavy for a long time because of how our ancestors chose to use and abuse the indigenous peoples and the very land. I am part Cherokee, and of course, White. Yet, I may also have some black blood because my great great and great grandparents owned slaves. I remember how shocked I was when I learned of this. I also remember being taken out the back porch to look across the field to the stand of trees in the distance. This was, I was told, a " slave ditch, " where the black people fleeing slavery would hide in their journey on the underground railroad. I was horrified, yet I could not tell anyone my feelings. I was happy they had a place to hide on their escape route. I remember going to church there, in Tidewater Virginia, and it was before the Civil Rights Era, so the black people had to sit in the balcony, as far away from the whites as possible. This hurt my young heart.Dear brother, you have done so much for so many; you yourself have likely been the target or subject of racism, and it isn't just racism. A lot of what " looks like " racism is really or is also classism. The upper and middle classes not accepting those who were and are lower on the economic rung. I should beg your forgiveness for what my family did. But Temba, please, please do not take this pain on. You can in gather so many people to help in whatever ways may be possible, and you do so much. Please keep your strength in Amma. If you make yourself part of the cause, it may be harder to be part of the solution because your grief, perhaps, might get in your way. I say this as someone who has strongly felt this grief. When my mother took me to a new high school to look it over, the Principal apologized to her because there were so many blacks. I was shocked. Why would he do such a thing. But in the area where I lived, there were only whites in the schools. When I was very little I found someone to play with in my (paternal) grandparent's neighborhood. We had such a good time; I was so happy that I came home and told my grandmother and my aunt about it. Then I was really in trouble, getting yelled at, and even the next day, my aunt saying what would be the all to familiar punch line, " Well, if you love them so much, why don't you marry one? " !!!!!!!! I was just a child. I didn't understand. I don't know how I escaped having the racist attitudes of my family passed down to me; I never identified at all with what they said and did, but only continued to feel shocked, horrified, and then as I grew older, very sad for them ... to be trapped in these vicious untruths. And these were people, please understand, who were Christian and who were very serious about their religion.To me it just never made sense.During my working years, in my own way I did what I could. In one peace group I worked for, I helped create a multicultural info/action " kit " for teachers to use with school children. Later as I began to get more into my Native American roots, I created something called the " Earth Blessing Ceremony. " This was very much experiential, not just me getting up in front of a group and singing, but instead getting the group in a circle and having them directly participate in all aspects, from saging the group to singing the chants. I was very blessed to be able to do this in a variety of settings with a variety of age groups, from small children to adults. I have been saddened by the loss of my voice because I miss this. Yet, even in my art, there is that influence. My latest work has been 4 " Medicine Sheilds, " each with a different animal. These are my Animal Totems, but I feel others could identify with them. I still have two to complete.You are doing good, important work/seva, dear Temba. Please don't fall on your sword. We all need you. Jai Jai Ma ~ LindaP.S. If there is a central group or agency that I could donate to I might be able to make a small contribution periodically that way. To physically help is beyond my means, and the other thing I can also do is pray. But please understand Temba that your work is valued; you stand for many of us. Let them know their sister Linda cares. The link made me very sad, but I saw a lot of this with my own eyes when I lived in New Mexico. On the one hand the commercialization of Native American culture by white people for white consumers, and, on the other hand, the devastating poverty. Temba wrote:dear beloved family and darling children of AMMA.if there is anyone out there who has a little spare time, an open heart and would like to serve the poorest community in this nation,please call AMMAs sun temba @ 641-233-8255.the spiritual masters have said that until the native american sitution is worked out in this country,lo to this country.it is so sad to me that this country is the suppossed richest country on the planet ,yet we have third world poverty right here in good ole n.america and to make it so sad,it is the indiginous people of this land.the same people that welcomed us into this country with open hearts and hands are now starving and freezing to death.only AMMA and those beings with love awareness could look into this dark situation and bring light to it.if no one can help in a physical sense.can you all just please help the AWARENESS of this situation increase.that is all i ask.let people know so their hearts can make the decision in how they can help**************Play online games for FREE at Games.com! 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Guest guest Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 thanks linda and temba for these moving stories which move us into the heart and put us in touch with the collective sufferings and help us to repent for so many mistakes based on ignorance, fear and selfishness as our tears flow, let us offer our divine apologies for our own shortcomings and lack of courage amma bless, amarnath Ammachi , temba spirits <tembaspirits wrote: > > > dear beloved sister and darling daughter of AMMA.you are very precious and dear to this heart and have a home in this heart forever,for indeed that is where our beloved AMMA LIVES!SHE LIVES beloved sister!as long as this body has breath in it,it will seek to please HER through serving HER forgotten children,which i am one. > > a couple of weeks ago ,it was friday and this child was engulfed in service and so out of touch with time , that he thought that it was tuesday. its like i am going crazy in a good way.i can not stop serving!this is proof to temba,that it is not him that is doing anything!SHE fills my heart and compells it to serve in the way that it does.temba does not have any strength on his own.this is reality!SHE does what SHE does through all of HER children for HER own reasons.SHE alone loves us all so much. i am nothing.temba has no control,he is compelled.AMMA has given this child a gift through allowing him to serve.it is through HER love that this happens.HER love will never cease in this LIFE or any of our lives.for temba to stop serving, would mean that HER love has ceased in his life and that could never happen beloved sister.HER WILL IS PERFECT AND ALSO UNSTOPPABLE!it is by way of HER WILL that we do what we do,not ours. > > dear beloved linda,AMMAs sun is not afraid to feel anyones pain.how can a mother be told,not to feal the pain ,or take on the pain of HER children?what mother would not accept the torments of hell if she could free her child from it?fortunately this is not what AMMA has asked this child to do.SHE knows that he could not handle that as of yet.SHE gives us all what we can endure. > > what SHE ask of this child is to simply share what SHE gives him with everyone that he can,exspecially those that our currently suffering.that in this day and time,just happens to be the majority of the planet.many of you are in tremendous pain right now. this heart willingly shares that with all of you and i offer it to the LOTUS FEET of our beloved AMMA in tears of compassion.sorrow is indeed the greatest GURU!when we cry tears of compassion for one,we cry for ALL.a little love is all we have,but my heart believes to AMMA that it is everything. > > i beleive that if we all share this pain with one another , it will reduce it for everyone .on the other side of pain is COMPASSION.when we are willing to share anothers burdens,it is called COMPASSION.this is what Christ meant when he said,to pick up your cross and follow me! > > here is something AMMA taught this heart.when we are in pain,if we immediately think of the pain of others and pray that they experience HER LOVE AND BLISS in its fullness,we ourselves will experience HER bliss. > > BE A SPIRITUAL SPONGE!ABSORB THE PAIN OF THE WORLD AND THEN LET HER SQUEEZE THE SPONGE OF YOUR HEART OUT!WHEN SHE SQUEEZES THE SPONGE OF YOUR HEART OUT,u WILL EXPERIENCE BLISS.AMMA says that the tears of the devotee are the light of the world.SHE also says that when a devotee crys devotional tears of compassion ,it is the same as when a yogi is in SAHMADI. > > sorrow and pain and the praying from your heart that ALL BEINGS be released from their suffering is the sure road to this experience.this happens by way of HER GRACE alone,but dont seek this experience,just long for HER love to be shared with all. > > once this happens to you,beloved sister,SHE gives you a vision,which we may call a glimpse into HER WILL.it was after crying tears to HER in a prison cell that AMMA showed me HER vision to build homes for HER forgotten children in n.america.now dear sister,three years later,this is happening! > > so dear linda ,if temba wanted to stop what his body does for HER,he could not!no one can OUT WILL GODS WILL for your life.it is a BIG ego trip to think that anything could stop AMMAs will!how could this little ego of mine,or my issues stop HER WILL for this LIFE beloved sister! > > this child has come to discover that anything he asked someone else to do ,he should be willing to do himself.the reason AMMA told this heart to initiate the apology to the Indiginous people of this land and the african americans of this land ,as well as the white americans of this land is to begin the process of healing for humanity on a deeper level.some may say , " who is he to think he can do this? " > > my response would be simply that i am someone who longs for the liberation of every heart.someone who knows that until we face life fearlessly,we as a whole humanity, will not live inside of each others hearts in the way that all of our hearts truly long to. > > dear linda,a lot of people have stuffed these things way down and until someone brings it up,it never gets dealt with.this is what has happened dear sister.we have all stuffed these things way down and have come to a place of being comfortable with living in denial. > > this is way it takes courage to bring it up and COMPASSIONATELY FACE IT.to look it in the face with the infinite courage of love and to see it as an oppurtunity to grow,heal and evolve into humanity's next stage of spiritual evolution.dear beloved linda,this child accepst his dharma,what he said was from the heart,AMMA with his heart love all. > > > > > Ammachi: nierika: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:37:35 -0400 Re: to Temba about the forgotten ones > > > > > Dearest brother Temba,My heart too has been very heavy for a long time because of how our ancestors chose to use and abuse the indigenous peoples and the very land. I am part Cherokee, and of course, White. Yet, I may also have some black blood because my great great and great grandparents owned slaves. I remember how shocked I was when I learned of this. I also remember being taken out the back porch to look across the field to the stand of trees in the distance. This was, I was told, a " slave ditch, " where the black people fleeing slavery would hide in their journey on the underground railroad. I was horrified, yet I could not tell anyone my feelings. I was happy they had a place to hide on their escape route. I remember going to church there, in Tidewater Virginia, and it was before the Civil Rights Era, so the black people had to sit in the balcony, as far away from the whites as possible. This hurt my young heart.Dear brother, you have done so much for so many; you yourself have likely been the target or subject of racism, and it isn't just racism. A lot of what " looks like " racism is really or is also classism. The upper and middle classes not accepting those who were and are lower on the economic rung. I should beg your forgiveness for what my family did. But Temba, please, please do not take this pain on. You can in gather so many people to help in whatever ways may be possible, and you do so much. Please keep your strength in Amma. If you make yourself part of the cause, it may be harder to be part of the solution because your grief, perhaps, might get in your way. I say this as someone who has strongly felt this grief. When my mother took me to a new high school to look it over, the Principal apologized to her because there were so many blacks. I was shocked. Why would he do such a thing. But in the area where I lived, there were only whites in the schools. When I was very little I found someone to play with in my (paternal) grandparent's neighborhood. We had such a good time; I was so happy that I came home and told my grandmother and my aunt about it. Then I was really in trouble, getting yelled at, and even the next day, my aunt saying what would be the all to familiar punch line, " Well, if you love them so much, why don't you marry one? " !!!!!!!! I was just a child. I didn't understand. I don't know how I escaped having the racist attitudes of my family passed down to me; I never identified at all with what they said and did, but only continued to feel shocked, horrified, and then as I grew older, very sad for them ... to be trapped in these vicious untruths. And these were people, please understand, who were Christian and who were very serious about their religion.To me it just never made sense.During my working years, in my own way I did what I could. In one peace group I worked for, I helped create a multicultural info/action " kit " for teachers to use with school children. Later as I began to get more into my Native American roots, I created something called the " Earth Blessing Ceremony. " This was very much experiential, not just me getting up in front of a group and singing, but instead getting the group in a circle and having them directly participate in all aspects, from saging the group to singing the chants. I was very blessed to be able to do this in a variety of settings with a variety of age groups, from small children to adults. I have been saddened by the loss of my voice because I miss this. Yet, even in my art, there is that influence. My latest work has been 4 " Medicine Sheilds, " each with a different animal. These are my Animal Totems, but I feel others could identify with them. I still have two to complete.You are doing good, important work/seva, dear Temba. Please don't fall on your sword. We all need you. Jai Jai Ma ~ LindaP.S. If there is a central group or agency that I could donate to I might be able to make a small contribution periodically that way. To physically help is beyond my means, and the other thing I can also do is pray. But please understand Temba that your work is valued; you stand for many of us. Let them know their sister Linda cares. The link made me very sad, but I saw a lot of this with my own eyes when I lived in New Mexico. On the one hand the commercialization of Native American culture by white people for white consumers, and, on the other hand, the devastating poverty. Temba wrote:dear beloved family and darling children of AMMA.if there is anyone out there who has a little spare time, an open heart and would like to serve the poorest community in this nation,please call AMMAs sun temba @ 641-233-8255.the spiritual masters have said that until the native american sitution is worked out in this country,lo to this country.it is so sad to me that this country is the suppossed richest country on the planet ,yet we have third world poverty right here in good ole n.america and to make it so sad,it is the indiginous people of this land.the same people that welcomed us into this country with open hearts and hands are now starving and freezing to death.only AMMA and those beings with love awareness could look into this dark situation and bring light to it.if no one can help in a physical sense.can you all just please help the AWARENESS of this situation increase.that is all i ask.let people know so their hearts can make the decision in how they can help**************Play online games for FREE at Games.com! 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Guest guest Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 dear beloved family and darling children of AMMA.in the book of luke in the bible ,it says that the ANGELS in heaven CELEBARATE when one heart turns from his ,or her unhealthy behaviors and seeks the LORD. it is not for us to begin " morbidly reflecting " on how bad we are.this is not our path.ours is the path of acceptance and facing life with the strength that AMMA has given us all if we would just have faith in HER POWER! we can CELEBRATE any oppurtunity that AMMA gives us all to grow spiritually! thankyou beloved brother armanath for embracing the courage and strengh that AMMA has given you and being a part of this healing process for all of us. AMMAs sun CELEBRATE's you and lindas courage!JAI MA! AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA IS FEARLESSNESS! Ammachi: anatol_zinc: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:49:25 +0000 Re: to Temba about the forgotten ones thanks linda and temba for these moving storieswhich move us into the heartand put us in touch with the collective sufferingsand help us to repent for so many mistakes based on ignorance, fear and selfishnessas our tears flow,let us offer our divine apologiesfor our own shortcomingsand lack of courageamma bless,amarnathAmmachi , temba spirits <tembaspirits wrote:>> > dear beloved sister and darling daughter of AMMA.you are veryprecious and dear to this heart and have a home in this heartforever,for indeed that is where our beloved AMMA LIVES!SHE LIVESbeloved sister!as long as this body has breath in it,it will seek toplease HER through serving HER forgotten children,which i am one.> > a couple of weeks ago ,it was friday and this child was engulfedin service and so out of touch with time , that he thought that it wastuesday. its like i am going crazy in a good way.i can not stopserving!this is proof to temba,that it is not him that is doinganything!SHE fills my heart and compells it to serve in the way thatit does.temba does not have any strength on his own.this isreality!SHE does what SHE does through all of HER children for HER ownreasons.SHE alone loves us all so much. i am nothing.temba has nocontrol,he is compelled.AMMA has given this child a gift throughallowing him to serve.it is through HER love that this happens.HERlove will never cease in this LIFE or any of our lives.for temba tostop serving, would mean that HER love has ceased in his life and thatcould never happen beloved sister.HER WILL IS PERFECT AND ALSOUNSTOPPABLE!it is by way of HER WILL that we do what we do,not ours.> > dear beloved linda,AMMAs sun is not afraid to feel anyonespain.how can a mother be told,not to feal the pain ,or take on thepain of HER children?what mother would not accept the torments of hellif she could free her child from it?fortunately this is not what AMMAhas asked this child to do.SHE knows that he could not handle that asof yet.SHE gives us all what we can endure.> > what SHE ask of this child is to simply share what SHE gives himwith everyone that he can,exspecially those that our currentlysuffering.that in this day and time,just happens to be the majority ofthe planet.many of you are in tremendous pain right now. this heartwillingly shares that with all of you and i offer it to the LOTUS FEETof our beloved AMMA in tears of compassion.sorrow is indeed thegreatest GURU!when we cry tears of compassion for one,we cry for ALL.alittle love is all we have,but my heart believes to AMMA that it iseverything.> > i beleive that if we all share this pain with one another , itwill reduce it for everyone .on the other side of pain isCOMPASSION.when we are willing to share anothers burdens,it is calledCOMPASSION.this is what Christ meant when he said,to pick up yourcross and follow me!> > here is something AMMA taught this heart.when we are in pain,if weimmediately think of the pain of others and pray that they experienceHER LOVE AND BLISS in its fullness,we ourselves will experience HER bliss.> > BE A SPIRITUAL SPONGE!ABSORB THE PAIN OF THE WORLD AND THEN LETHER SQUEEZE THE SPONGE OF YOUR HEART OUT!WHEN SHE SQUEEZES THE SPONGEOF YOUR HEART OUT,u WILL EXPERIENCE BLISS.AMMA says that the tears ofthe devotee are the light of the world.SHE also says that when adevotee crys devotional tears of compassion ,it is the same as when ayogi is in SAHMADI.> > sorrow and pain and the praying from your heart that ALL BEINGSbe released from their suffering is the sure road to thisexperience.this happens by way of HER GRACE alone,but dont seek thisexperience,just long for HER love to be shared with all.> > once this happens to you,beloved sister,SHE gives you avision,which we may call a glimpse into HER WILL.it was after cryingtears to HER in a prison cell that AMMA showed me HER vision to buildhomes for HER forgotten children in n.america.now dear sister,threeyears later,this is happening!> > so dear linda ,if temba wanted to stop what his body does forHER,he could not!no one can OUT WILL GODS WILL for your life.it is aBIG ego trip to think that anything could stop AMMAs will!how couldthis little ego of mine,or my issues stop HER WILL for this LIFEbeloved sister!> > this child has come to discover that anything he asked someoneelse to do ,he should be willing to do himself.the reason AMMA toldthis heart to initiate the apology to the Indiginous people of thisland and the african americans of this land ,as well as the whiteamericans of this land is to begin the process of healing for humanityon a deeper level.some may say , " who is he to think he can do this? " > > my response would be simply that i am someone who longs for theliberation of every heart.someone who knows that until we face lifefearlessly,we as a whole humanity, will not live inside of each othershearts in the way that all of our hearts truly long to.> > dear linda,a lot of people have stuffed these things waydown and until someone brings it up,it never gets dealt with.this iswhat has happened dear sister.we have all stuffed these things waydown and have come to a place of being comfortable with living in denial.> > this is way it takes courage to bring it up and COMPASSIONATELYFACE IT.to look it in the face with the infinite courage of love andto see it as an oppurtunity to grow,heal and evolve into humanity'snext stage of spiritual evolution.dear beloved linda,this childaccepst his dharma,what he said was from the heart,AMMA with his heartlove all.> > > > > Ammachi: nierika: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:37:35-0400 Re: to Temba about the forgotten ones> > > > > Dearest brother Temba,My heart too has been very heavy for a longtime because of how our ancestors chose to use and abuse theindigenous peoples and the very land. I am part Cherokee, and ofcourse, White. Yet, I may also have some black blood because my greatgreat and great grandparents owned slaves. I remember how shocked Iwas when I learned of this. I also remember being taken out the backporch to look across the field to the stand of trees in the distance.This was, I was told, a " slave ditch, " where the black people fleeingslavery would hide in their journey on the underground railroad. I washorrified, yet I could not tell anyone my feelings. I was happy theyhad a place to hide on their escape route. I remember going to churchthere, in Tidewater Virginia, and it was before the Civil Rights Era,so the black people had to sit in the balcony, as far away from thewhites as possible. This hurt my young heart.Dear brother, you havedone so much for so many; you yourself have likely been the target orsubject of racism, and it isn't just racism. A lot of what " lookslike " racism is really or is also classism. The upper and middleclasses not accepting those who were and are lower on the economicrung. I should beg your forgiveness for what my family did. But Temba,please, please do not take this pain on. You can in gather so manypeople to help in whatever ways may be possible, and you do so much.Please keep your strength in Amma. If you make yourself part of thecause, it may be harder to be part of the solution because your grief,perhaps, might get in your way. I say this as someone who has stronglyfelt this grief. When my mother took me to a new high school to lookit over, the Principal apologized to her because there were so manyblacks. I was shocked. Why would he do such a thing. But in the areawhere I lived, there were only whites in the schools. When I was verylittle I found someone to play with in my (paternal) grandparent'sneighborhood. We had such a good time; I was so happy that I came homeand told my grandmother and my aunt about it. Then I was really introuble, getting yelled at, and even the next day, my aunt saying whatwould be the all to familiar punch line, " Well, if you love them somuch, why don't you marry one? " !!!!!!!! I was just a child. I didn'tunderstand. I don't know how I escaped having the racist attitudes ofmy family passed down to me; I never identified at all with what theysaid and did, but only continued to feel shocked, horrified, and thenas I grew older, very sad for them ... to be trapped in these viciousuntruths. And these were people, please understand, who were Christianand who were very serious about their religion.To me it just nevermade sense.During my working years, in my own way I did what I could.In one peace group I worked for, I helped create a multiculturalinfo/action " kit " for teachers to use with school children. Later as Ibegan to get more into my Native American roots, I created somethingcalled the " Earth Blessing Ceremony. " This was very much experiential,not just me getting up in front of a group and singing, but insteadgetting the group in a circle and having them directly participate inall aspects, from saging the group to singing the chants. I was veryblessed to be able to do this in a variety of settings with a varietyof age groups, from small children to adults. I have been saddened bythe loss of my voice because I miss this. Yet, even in my art, thereis that influence. My latest work has been 4 " Medicine Sheilds, " eachwith a different animal. These are my Animal Totems, but I feel otherscould identify with them. I still have two to complete.You are doinggood, important work/seva, dear Temba. Please don't fall on yoursword. We all need you. Jai Jai Ma ~ LindaP.S. If there is a centralgroup or agency that I could donate to I might be able to make a smallcontribution periodically that way. To physically help is beyond mymeans, and the other thing I can also do is pray. But pleaseunderstand Temba that your work is valued; you stand for many of us.Let them know their sister Linda cares. The link made me very sad, butI saw a lot of this with my own eyes when I lived in New Mexico. Onthe one hand the commercialization of Native American culture by whitepeople for white consumers, and, on the other hand, the devastatingpoverty. Temba wrote:dear beloved family and darling children ofAMMA.if there is anyone out there who has a little spare time, an openheart and would like to serve the poorest community in thisnation,please call AMMAs sun temba @ 641-233-8255.the spiritualmasters have said that until the native american sitution is workedout in this country,lo to this country.it is so sad to me that thiscountry is the suppossed richest country on the planet ,yet we havethird world poverty right here in good ole n.america and to make it sosad,it is the indiginous people of this land.the same people thatwelcomed us into this country with open hearts and hands are nowstarving and freezing to death.only AMMA and those beings with loveawareness could look into this dark situation and bring light to it.ifno one can help in a physical sense.can you all just please help theAWARENESS of this situation increase.that is all i ask.let people knowso their hearts can make the decision in how they canhelp**************Play online games for FREE at Games.com! 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