by Zenju | Aug 9, 2013 | Indigenous Traditions in Healing
(photo of Zenju’s mocassins and drumstick) The dirt of the New Mexico desert is still on my mocassins. The ancestors spoke to me the first day of the dance. I did not like what I heard. But I listened. I am more than thirsty and hungry on day four. I am happy...
by Zenju | Dec 18, 2010 | Indigenous Traditions in Healing, Videos to Enjoy
Many see chanting as a practice related only to Buddhism, yet if you open to cultures prior to the onset of Buddhism you find many forms of chanting. I would like to share chanting from the Aka and Baka tribes (referred to as Pygmies) of the Congo whose chants date...
by Zenju | Aug 14, 2009 | Indigenous Traditions in Healing, The World We Live In
Burying the Bones Rituals for Loss of Life, Land, and Culture (photo of Batik people) We need to create symbolic burial rituals for those whose lives were taken to confiscate the land in which they lived and preserved culture or lives lost in deaths from pandemics...
