I was watching and listening to an interview with Sobunfu Some, a contemporary author and teacher. If you want to learn about a near perfect community, balanced in wisdom and spirit, check out this site. http://www.sobonfu.com/
I especially like the Dagara's (West Africa) custom regarding the value of children. The child's relationship to the community begins in the womb. http://www.sobonfu.com/writings/20050101.shtml The elders of the community have a "Hearing" with the the child in the womb. They ask the child: Who are you? Why did you come? What is your purpose? It is in the intuitive responses that the elders come to some understanding of the child's purpose, and the child is guided and nurtured in life to fulfill it. This is unlike many parents' ideas of molding the child into what they think the child should be or do. We all have a purpose in life. It may not be grandiose or world-illuminating, but it is nonetheless a purpose. If all members of a community were allowed to follow their inner calling, no matter WHAT it might be, we would certainly be living in paradise. Everyone would be innately content, happy with themselves, expressing their own purposeful "mission" on earth.
Every person has purpose, every person has worth - why else would any of us be here? Discover your "secret" purpose, the one which drew you to this life experience. Then find the community which would nourish and encourage you to fulfill it. Live, laugh, love. Namaste.
I especially like the Dagara's (West Africa) custom regarding the value of children. The child's relationship to the community begins in the womb. http://www.sobonfu.com/writings/20050101.shtml The elders of the community have a "Hearing" with the the child in the womb. They ask the child: Who are you? Why did you come? What is your purpose? It is in the intuitive responses that the elders come to some understanding of the child's purpose, and the child is guided and nurtured in life to fulfill it. This is unlike many parents' ideas of molding the child into what they think the child should be or do. We all have a purpose in life. It may not be grandiose or world-illuminating, but it is nonetheless a purpose. If all members of a community were allowed to follow their inner calling, no matter WHAT it might be, we would certainly be living in paradise. Everyone would be innately content, happy with themselves, expressing their own purposeful "mission" on earth.
Every person has purpose, every person has worth - why else would any of us be here? Discover your "secret" purpose, the one which drew you to this life experience. Then find the community which would nourish and encourage you to fulfill it. Live, laugh, love. Namaste.
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