The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom by Joan Halifax

Author:Joan Halifax [Halifax, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2004-03-15T05:00:00+00:00

Yes, stories are threads that draw one back into the fabric of the Earth. Bright fibers that join worlds, stories illumine our deep past and our origins, our ancestors and the ancestors of all creation, and our psyches and societies. They also draw us through the eye of the future. There are stories of beginnings, stories that reflect our lives as they are presently lived, and stories about the coming time. Today the prophecies being told by our elder brothers and sisters from tribal cultures teach us that the past, present, and future are connected in the same way that all of creation is connected. Used by cultures and peoples to regulate themselves, prophecies help a people to measure and understand their past and present and to see what might happen in the future based on present human activity.

Many tribal peoples believe that the Earth is perishing because the sacred ways of their cultures are dying or lost. These traditions have kept the world in balance, have protected the Earth through prayer, story, and sacred activity. A Hopi elder, Grandfather David Monongye, said,

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