Simplifying complexity. So, click on the links below, and you will go to a page with some recommended books by indigenous philosophers who are coming up with brilliant ways to speak to us in our language, English, about the wisdom that has been passed down through generations of people living a natural life. One of them is “Sand Talk,” and the author is Tyson Yunkaporta. It’s brilliant. You’ve got to read it; it’ll blow your mind, hopefully change the way you allow your perceptions to teach you.
One of the things he talks about is how did the modern mind go so bad? How did we get so confused so that we started fighting with each other all the time and are currently destroying the environment that we live in? He says that one of the things that our so-called religions and philosophies have done for us is to try to make us simplify complexity.
The native way of interfacing with the world and with each other is all about connections and relationships between things, not just between people but with the way that the natural world works and how everything is connected to everything else. Once we try to simplify that and put ourselves into a place where we believe we’re above it and out of it, then the interior landscape of a human being becomes very difficult because safety becomes our immediate concern, and that’s why we try to simplify this complexity.
But the problem is, once we step out of it, then the feeling of not being safe arises because you’re not part of the whole flow that happens.
So, one of our goals, hopefully with non-duality, is to get our consciousness, our conditioned mind, to the place where we can start letting complexity and inner connections enter into our worldview again. Because we have to see this full complexity before we can start creating solutions of how to live with each other and with the natural world that we are part of.
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Aboriginal Wisdom: Sand Talk Native American Wisdom: Sweetgrass and Tink