The first elder was given gifts of knowledge by the seven grandfathers. Each grandfather gave the first elder a teaching, a gift to help the people live a good life to respect the Creator, the earth and each other.In the American Indian teaching we have learned how to take care of Mother Earth. In our care for Mother Earth, we have learned to apply these gifts to families, communities, ourselves, and to all things. Remember these gifts as we greet the rising sun in the morning and the sinking sun in the evening. These gifts of knowledge came from the Seven Grandfathers and were handed to the First Elder.
1. Wisdom: to cherish knowledge is to know wisdom:
Sound judgment, ability to discern inner qualities and relationships.
Use good sense and form a good attitude and course of action. Listen and use the wisdom of elders, tribal leadership and spiritual leaders.
Wisdom is sound judgment and the ability to use good sense, to have a good attitude and reason of action, that runs through and binds the seven teachings together.
2. Love: to know love is to know peace:
Feel and give absolute kindness for all things around you. To love yourself is to live at peace with the creator and in harmony with all creation.Love is to feel and give complete kindness for all things around you. Love is based upon affection, respect, kindness, unselfish loyalty, devotion and concern.Love your brother and sister and share with them. Love cannot be demanded...it must be earned and given freely from the goodness of your heart.
3. Respect: to honor all of creation is to have respect.
Showing respect is showing honor for the value of persons or things through polite regard, consideration and appreciation.Honor our traditional roles and teachings. Honor our families, others, and ourselves. Don't hurt anything or anyone on the outside or the inside.
Respect, also is not to be demanded, it is earned and given freely from the goodness of your heart.
4. Bravery: to face life with courage is to know bravery.
The personal strength to face difficulties, obstacles and challenges. Have courage, make positive choices. Stand up for your convictions--show courage in communicating and decision-making.Do things even in the most difficult times. Be ready to defend what you believe and what is right. Never give in. Never give up
5. Truth: to know of these things is to know the truth.
Faithfully apply the teachings of our seven grandfathers and trust in the creator.To show honor is to be truthful and trustworthy, to tell the truth. Sincerity in action, character, and utterance. Be faithful to fact and reality.Be true in everything that you do. Be true to yourself and true to your fellow man. Understand it - Speak it - Live by it
6. Humility: to accept yourself as a sacred part of creation is to know humility. Reflecting, expressing or offering in a spirit of deference or submission. Balance of equality with all of life. Recognize the human need for balance in life.Know that you are equal to everyone else. Take pride in what you do, but the pride that you take is in the sharing of the accomplishment with others.
7. Honesty: is to be honest in action and character, be faithful to fact and reality--to walk through life with integrity is to know honesty. Being truthful and trustworthy. Tell the truth. Accept and act on truths through straightforward and appropriate communication.Be honest in every action and provide good feelings in the heart. Do not be deceitful or use self-deception. Honesty keeps life simple.
To cherish knowledge is to know WISDOM
To know LOVE is to know peace
To honor all the creation is to have RESPECT
Bravery is to face the foe with integrity
Honesty in a facing situation is to be brave
Humility is to know yourself as a sacred part of the creation
Truth is to know all of these things.
2007-05-10 15:06:50
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answered by wiser than you 2
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1. Don't chew your whiskers in bed, 2. Keep the woodie up for grandma. 3. Keep the woodie down for the neighborhood kids. 4. Never run barefoot in the cow path. 5. Always mount a horse from the left. 5. If your John Wayne or one of them guys you can mount a horse from the rear. 6. Never pass gas and fan the sheets. 7. Always keep a flashlight in the outhouse to check out the snakes in the hole.
2007-05-10 15:35:43
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answered by sashali 5
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i'm going to enable you recognize what, i'm having a coarse time with it! i'm attempting to do it form of mathematically nevertheless by making use of substitution. the only one i will arise with is Blessed are (ones who understand themselves because of the fact the 2d portion of the creation), for they shall inherit the earth.
2017-01-09 15:16:13
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answered by ? 4
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