News – Page 4 – Sunray NGO

1 Nov 2016

We are Relatives in the Sea of Life

Dear friends and community members and human beings of one heart, water, the sweet medicine that nurtures life and reveals our natural wisdom cries out for each person to take a stand. Many from around the world have joined ‘Earth Caretakers’ at Standing Rock North Dakota to restore the resonance of right relationship with the elements and each other through … Read More

4 Sep 2015

Sunray Looks Back

In 1991, Ven Dhyani Ywahoo and Rev. Margie Joy Walden travelled to Madrid, Spain to attend a meeting with Queen Sofia of Spain. Geraldine Lewis and Marysol Gonzalez arranged this meeting to discuss indigenous peoples’ perspectives on the upcoming Quinto Centenario. The discussions were very productive and important language was changed that acknowledged indigenous perspectives. In 2015, Geraldine Lewis … Read More

19 Jan 2015

Geneva 1981 NGO Conference on Indigenous Populations and the Land

In 1981, Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo attended the International NGO Conference on Indigenous Populations and the Land in Geneva, Switzerland as one of the delegates from the American Indian Treaty Council. Prior to that year, she had collected documentation from various reservations regarding the sterilization of Native American women without their consent, sometimes happening during simple visits to the dentist. … Read More

1 Jan 2015

The Past Has Manifested the Present and Together We Create the Future

“The past has manifested the present and together we create the future. Let us energize, let us visualize a world of harmonious balance and co-operation. A reminder that each of us may hold a candle to illuminate the night and uncover joy and methods of reconciliation. May each hold a candle of discerning observation to see behind appearances, the … Read More

11 Jul 2013

Sunray UN News

On February 1, 2013, one of our community members did a representation at the UN Youth Assembly and in her conclusion spoke of Collective Consciousness. She also brought 57 students from Farleigh Dickenson University to the UN Interfaith Culture of Peace. Thirty or more of these students participated in the flag ceremony. She participated on the panel of the Commemoration … Read More

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Quotations

Wisdom, a stream ever flowing, a sense of our oneness with all beings, an understanding that that which crawls, walks, flies, or swims is some relative to each of us. In recognizing that stream in ourselves, there is a sense of wonder and respect for life as it manifests in every part of the stream. (p. 113)

Voices of Our Ancestors

Just as our organ systems are supported by Mother Earth’s compassion, she [Mother Earth] is supported by our caretaking. To return to Earth appreciation and caretaking of her waters, mountains, and atmosphere is the responsibility of her children [human beings]. That is our song in this time. (pg. 117)

Voices of Our Ancestors

To still conflict within ourselves, to make peace within our own minds and hearts, what effect will that have on the planetary mind? May that be the necessary impetus for the nations to put away the instruments of war. (p.201)

Voices of Our Ancestors

The common factors that unite human beings are the desire for security, peace, abundance, and ease for our children and grandchildren. Parents all around the world have the same concerns. The cause of imagined separation is ignorance of the means by which we are all interrelated. We are connected by the air we breathe and the Earth we share. (p.140)

Voices of Our Ancestors

By observing the emotions and patterns of their arising, one may respond without being carried away. Emotions of fear, anger, envy, are seen as ripples on the stream, caused by winds of confusion. Mind dedicated to beneficial actions calms winds of confusion. (p.118)

Voices of Our Ancestors

Pacifying the emotions of confusion is done thorough forgiving oneself and others for what might have been, could have been, should have been and allowing the charge of emotions unexpressed to be carried away in the water-mind of forgiving. (p.118)

Voices of Our Ancestors

In Tsalagi [Cherokee], water is ama, consciousness, like mama, and when we awaken to the cleansing properties of water, then we may wash away the obstacles to good relationship with self, others, the Earth. (p.117)

Voices of Our Ancestors

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