The Creation of Love | Traditional Diné Story
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2024
- The conclusion of the Anthony Lee series, closes out with the origins of the meaning of love. What does love really mean and is it meant for everyone to share with anyone? Are we using it properly in our daily lives? Join us in this final episode of discovering new meaning of the word: Love.
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Previous Series with Anthony Lee:
Dine' Historian: ruclips.net/video/UupOQux9ljE/видео.html
Entering the Disappearing Age: ruclips.net/video/rS9iG3QJvEs/видео.html
Visit Anthony in person at: The Healing Center (Shiprock): healingcircledropin.org
I love how he explains the word "love" from the beginning of life , his teaching is tearsome and beautiful calm feeling...I wish he could continue ...Thank you for sharing now I just want to cry
Ahe' hee for sharing your thoughts on the story of love. Editing that section took the longest due to how we wanted to deliver it and glad you felt that. We felt it when cutting that section. Ahe' hee for all your support!
Cool video. Just got to finally watch it after my seminar in Vegas. Hey you know what my little sister was very cool couple years back. She graduated college and she somehow turned Karen. Once in a while she’s her back to her old self and it feels good. I really love the part about Navajo Gods and the love woman have. Woman are powerful! That’s why when my wife stays take out the trash I make sure it gets done.
NIZHONI NIZHONI we appreciate the love of you sharing traditional sweat lodge stories and what love is of a woman ❤❤
Ahe' hee, glad you enjoyed the story. We still encourage everyone to experience this song during a sweat. It's a much more fulfilling experience. Ahe' hee for your support!
Thank you both
Aoh' ahe' hee for your support!
Respect
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Nizhoni shi k'ei. I've been wanting a sweatlodge for a while. I don't know all the details but I help build one years ago. Being a woman what is healthy and unhealthy is different from a man. All I know is this will help me heal in mind and spirit.
Thanks for the clarification of the sweat, many don’t know this and just claim women aren’t allowed. Ahxéhee’
Amazing teachcings!!! His style and method of teaching reminds me of the old times! Nizhonii! Thank you so much for this!
Aoh' agreed. A straight forward guy and doesn't have any filters, just like older generation Diné 🤙🏾
Thank you guys, great teaching and singing.. Very appreciative
Aoh' anytime, take care and have a great week
"It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the person. As such, the teaching of love should be the central core of all early childhood curriculum with all other subjects growing naturally out of such teaching. For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value."
Ashley Montagu
"Love is nature's psychotherapy." ~ Eric Berne
#MMIW
"In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists. Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn’t killed our hearts. It’s killed men’s hearts. It’s silenced them, it’s cut them off.
Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.
We have no idea how many women were raped in wars - because no one ever asked. So sometimes when people say statistics have escalated, I wonder if, that is true or are we just hearing about things now that we didn't hear about before.
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue. When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet. Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls."
Eve Ensler
"Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood."
Lucy Ellmann
"The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength.
Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81% Hindu), the United States (76% Christian), and Indonesia (87% Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers.
There is a similar system of discrimination, extending far beyond a small geographical region to the entire globe; it touches every nation, perpetuating and expanding the trafficking in human slaves, body mutilation, and even legitimized murder on a massive scale.
This system is based on the presumption that men and boys are superior to women and girls, and it is supported by some male religious leaders who distort the Holy Bible, the Koran, and other sacred texts to perpetuate their claim that females are, in some basic ways, inferior to them, unqualified to serve God on equal terms.
Many men disagree but remain quiet in order to enjoy the benefits of their dominant status. This false premise provides a justification for sexual discrimination in almost every realm of secular and religious life.
During our recent Human Rights Defenders Forum at The Carter Center, it was reported that between two hundred and three hundred children are sold in Atlanta alone each month! Our city is considered to be one of the preeminent human trafficking centers in the United States, perhaps because we have the busiest airport in the world and because, until recently, the penalty for someone convicted of selling another human being was only a $50 fine. A much heavier penalty of up to twenty years’ imprisonment can be imposed by the federal government, but only if there is proof that the trafficking took place across state lines.
An analysis by Atlanta social workers found that 42% of the sexual exchanges they investigated were in brothels and hotel rooms in the most affluent areas of the city, while only 9% were in the poorer neighborhoods in the vicinity of the airport. Like Kara, they too conclude that the primary culprits are the men who buy sexual favors and the male pimps and brothel owners who control the women and garner most of the financial gains.
The principle of treating others the same way one would like to be treated is echoed in at least twelve religions of the world. “Others” transcend gender, race, class, sexual orientation or caste. Whoever and whatever the “other” is, she has to be treated with dignity, kindness, love, and respect. In African communitarian spirituality, this is well expressed in the Ubuntu religious and ethical ideal of “I am because you are, and since we are, therefore I am”-a mandate based on the reality of our being interconnected and interdependent as creation. Therefore pain caused to one is pain shared by all. FULATA MOYO, PROGRAM EXECUTIVE, WOMEN IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY, WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES”
Jimmy Carter, A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
"In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That's why they are called Echo People."
Robert Bly
"For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom. In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters.
When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak. When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door."
Katha Pollitt
"People do not see that the main question is not : "Am I loved?" which is to a large extent the question : "Am I approved of? Am I protected? Am I admired?" The main question is: "Can I love? Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination.
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
Erich Fromm
"Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself."
Stanislav Grof
"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."
Jack Kornfield
"A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.
Jerry Falwell says, on Pat Robertson's program, that the reason we got attacked on 9/11 is that we were accommodating the ACLU and abortion and homosexuals and feminists in America, so God smacked us down."
John Shelby Spong
“The biggest guns and the heaviest industry with its relatively high living standard are not enough to check the psychic infection spread by religious fanaticism.”
Carl Jung
“Ultimately, forgiveness is usually about one thing --- “This is for me, not for you.” Hatred is exhausting; forgiveness, or even just indifference, is freeing. To quote Booker T. Washington, “I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” Belittle and distort and consume.
Forgiveness seems to be at least somewhat good for your health --- victims who show spontaneous forgiveness, or who have gone through forgiveness therapy (as opposed to “anger validation therapy”) show improvements in general health, cardiovascular function, and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Chapter 14 explored how compassion readily, perhaps inevitably, contains elements of self-interest. The compassionate granting of forgiveness epitomizes this.41”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
"There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever. Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings.
Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the other unique characteristics of the human being is based upon his consciousness of himself.
Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other. The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can "be", that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves."
Rollo May, Man's Search for Himself
"Nothing is possible without love ... For love puts one in a mood to risk everything. Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS. Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul.
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends."
Carl Jung
Attention to "ALL KAREN'S "..😂🤣😅
🤣 for real! ha
Nizhoni.
" Oo'lah o'wah' yeeh' " - 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
This is so Kool bro 👍💯
The melodic chorus sounds which sets the rhythm of the songs all have a meaning too, it's usually a feeling like an emotional feeling that's being expressed, like gratitude .
Awesome video 👍
Maybe some day I can sit with this guy and have a smoke and talk.
Ahe' hee shi'kis for watching the latest video. I hope one day, we can all meet up and share stories. It's a great story and one that relaxes me every time I hear it.
My grandma would say there no word in Navajo that I love you but I sure can show it ❤️
Aoh' agreed. A lot don't know that it's a new word in Dine. Ahe' hee for watching Anthony's video.
Yes there is, it is Shi yazzi, it is words that understood as my little one - words of endearment. Something to think about,
A he here shi hastoi ni tsaagoh
Ahxéhee' ✊🏽
Ahe' hee shi'kis
question about right of passage for boys i know some of it takes place in the sweat lodge but is there a specific age for it or different for each boy like it is with the girls Navajo grandma talked about
It's the puberty phase. When their voice changes, a ceremony is conducted. The ceremonies are a little different depending on location on the Navajo Nation. We will be covering the male puberty later this year. Great question!
@@Spagoshi thank you so much
Yep , those Karen's need to sweat it out 👍
…. If you hurry you can still make Cheyenne
What's going on in Cheyenne?
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Everyone loves the flute 😉
one of my questions is about facial hair i don't see Native Americans with any is this part of your culture or is it just harder for you to grow it
That's more of a biological question. Dine are diverse like everyone else in the world. Some grow it out, some prefer to cut it back and some can't really grow it at all.
@@Spagoshi thank you
Nízhóní’yé áhéhéé 🙏🏽🪶
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I am very dissapointed of him because of that childish "Karen-thing". I was not expectingthat from a wise traditional teacher. The traditional teacher Wally Brown would never use such sentences. I have a close friendship to a Diné family...they would never say such stupid things.
Why is it stupid if it was humor? We Diné joke all the time and a lot of us don't have filters. If you're close to a Diné family, I'm sure you would've heard some jokes before. What area are you from?
@@Spagoshi I am from Germany. I know that it is a joke. But jokes should never be at others expense. But maybe you handle it differently.
@@karinschleicher2619 what part of the Navajo Nation did you hang out with a Dine' family? Many Dine' families and elders rarely have any filters on humor. It's common growing up like that. The picking on each other is part of being accepted into a family or a tight knit group. It actually goes back to the creation story of the Hero Twins. So that's why we hardly get offended especially in today's social climate. I wouldn't take it to heart. As in our local common slang goes "Don't get somehow about it" ha
@@Spagoshi Not all. My dear Shadi and her family are all well educated. But this is private okay.
😂😂😂@@karinschleicher2619