I’ve been running across a lot of Native American stories lately that show an advanced understanding of living in the non-dual state.
I’m not going to tell the story myself because you can hear it directly from a Navajo Elder.
The Truth About Prayer… A Native American (Navajo) Perspective.
This story is deeply interesting because it’s talking about one of their creation stories. They have the Holy people who are organizing the world. He is very specific to say that they’re not creating the world, because you can’t create anything out of nothing. So they were organizing the world and they did it with words.
Then the Holy People allowed the five-fingered beings (humans), to have words and the people started abusing the power that the words gave them. So the holy people were going to take words away from the people.
They went through this whole process where they went to the holy people and finally it was agreed that that human beings, the five-fingered beings, could keep words if they prayed and if they prayed properly.
What’s so interesting about this is that in non-dual teachings what we’re talking about is words. We are trying to deal with the fact that the language in our minds goes wrong. We get addicted to the language in our heads and we start thinking that we’re separate. And then, because human beings are so powerful when we work together, we’re able to create too much. Out of that creation can come destruction.
Out of that creation has come destruction.
In this story the Holy People have said that the way to deal with this mind, with these words, with the way that we get addicted to words in our minds, is to pray. That’s fascinating because when we pray we are actually using words. The words in a prayer seem to access this different side of our consciousness. This enhances the side of us that doesn’t put words together and turn them into destruction.
So watch this story. Hopefully you can see how this kind teaching, this way of pointing at the words, is a way to bring the human brain into balance. A balance between the side of us that sees words, knows words, uses words, gets addicted to words, and then the side of us that is just silent and knowing. Both of these sides are extremely important to be human beings.