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A collection of some of our kula's dicoveries on the shared universal journey.

Cutting Brambles
[ yin yang ]

Cut brambles long enough,
Sprout after sprout,
And the lotus will bloom
Of its own accord:
Already waiting in the clearing,
The single image of light.
The day you see this,
That day you will become it.


Sun Bu'er (c. 1124 - 1182)
The most famous woman teacher of Chinese Taoism, Sun Bu'er (formerly spelled Sun Pu-erh) was born in 1124. Married to another Taoist practitioner who is also said to have achieved complete realization, she bore and raised three children before turning to full time practice of the way at the age of fifty-one. She later taught other women initiates, and a number of the treatises she wrote for them have survived. In Taoist folklore she is known as one of the Seven Immortals.

With Clean Hands
[ pow wow ]

O Great Spirit
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me!

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes every behold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.

Let me hear the lessons you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.

Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades as the fading sunset, my spirit may come to you without shame.


Native American
From "In Beauty May I Walk: Words of Wisdom by Native Americans"
Compiled by Helen Exley