Native Way of Prayer

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Native Way of Prayer

The true way of pray according to my ancestors from the Americas, the indigenous people of Turtle Island (America), we do not pray and ask for something, because when we pray asking for something we are actually saying that which we are praying for does not exist. Everything that we think we need and seek already exists within the Divine Abundance of Great Spirit, because it has already been created for us by Great Spirit, and it is waiting on our conscious awareness of that Divine Reality. My ancestors would step into the Sacred Circle and placed a Mudra in front of them, and honor the four directions; they would also honor all of theirs ancestors. Mudras are sacred ritual gestures, elaborate hand positions used for the purpose of prayer. Mudras are used with mantras to seal energy patterns. Then within their spirit, with all of their senses, they would experience what they are praying to open up to them in the physical realm, a form of visualization. Here is a good example of Native prayer I heard Gregg Braden talk about. When my indigenous ancestors of Turtle Island would pray for rain they would actually feel the rain showering down on their heads, smell it, and feel their toes in the muddy soil created by the rainfall beneath their feet. Then they would give thanks to Great Spirit and go about their lives in a state of continual thanksgiving for the abundance of rain they knew would come in due time.

When we pray in the way that most people pray today, we are actually praying in earnest error; because we are praying as if that which we are praying for does not yet exist. Most of the time that is coupled with not feeling what we are praying as being a part of our current day reality, the existence of the abundant perfect creation we have already been blessed with from before the beginning of time by Great Spirit. We must immerge our whole physical and spiritual being into our prayer, and experience the prayer as a part of our current reality within our spirit. That is our preparation for receiving that which we are praying for. There is no lack in us or in our surrounding physical world; we have simply lost our true sight and hearing, because we have taken our attention off of what needs our undivided attention and allegiance, which is none other than Source, Great Spirit. We must regain our singular spiritual focus, because without it we most assuredly cannot communicate with Great Spirit in an appropriate and effective way. Matter of fact, we also need to regain it so that we can communicate with each other effectively and appropriately. Life is not a dream, this experience we call life is our current reality in the here and now, in which we have some degree of control over it. That which we do not control, is controlled by our beloved teacher Great Spirit. It is all about wholeness and oneness. We have become so fragmented in our lives, thinking, and affairs, due to the fact that we have become so impatient, stubborn, and egotistical. We must stop speeding through life, we have to low down and enjoy this reality we have been gifted with, and all of the intricacies of this physical sojourn.

We must once again truly learn how to experience this reality called life.

That can and must be done by practicing the Native Way of Prayer.

Baba-Kundi Ma`at-Shambhala
Copyright © Nov. 2010
(Revised 11.22.12)