Short Story: The Cherokee Indian Chief, Little Big Wolf, talks to his son about life
By emptychair
@innertalks (23746)
Australia
March 4, 2021 7:09pm CST
It was late one night, when the moon was already up, and when the wolves were already howling.
The Chief of the tribe had one son, MoonCloud, named because he was often disappearing behind his own cloud of light.
Chief Little Big Wolf, took his 11 year old son into his large wigwam, and started to talk to him about what life was really all about, and what parts of it we should try to master, and which parts we should more fall into line with too.
Here is what he said to his young brave.
"Your brain must agree with the directionality of life for you to live a full life within life,"
my son.
"Life is life, but you learn about life through your brain."
"All thinking moves you towards decisions, then actions."
"Life will often hurt you, but the way that you respond to that hurt brings you either more hurt, or more understanding."
"We do not compete with, or try to defeat, and beat life."
"No, what we must do,"
"my lad,"
"is to try to defeat our own wrong thinking, our doubts, and our blaming life for what it is."
"And yet, we do not live to just meet ourselves; we live to meet God."
"When we obtain such knowledge of God, we are naturally kind to all life then too, including to ourselves too."
"Anything that is a part of life is a part of you too",
my son.
"Therefore be very careful how you treat life, as it will treat you back in the same way, until you change, and treat it kindly, and surreptitiously, with the enemy of itself, love."
Surprised by what his father had just said about love, the young boy asked his father.
"Why is love an enemy to life?"
His father explained it like this then to the boy:
"Because until you take the "I" out of life, and place it back into life to find love in life, you will only ever remain, and retain, the selfishness of your own "I" in life, not be a part of love, living in life."
"You make love an enemy to life, when you selfishly embrace life only for your own self. Love life openly, not closedly, and then you will see love as your friend, and life too, as your friend, as well."
Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, freeimages.com
Chief Little Big Wolf was a real character, but he was a big man, in a humble way.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
5 Mar 21
i suspect that conversation should be had with all children. Love it!
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Mar 21
Thanks, Scott. I wish that my own father had been able to tell me some home truths too, like that too.
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Mar 21
@DocAndersen Yes, that is true, but my Father used to try to make up his own versions of truth, and say that his truths were the right ones, infallible versions, and interpretations, and that everyone else was wrong.
His method was more brainwashing, indoctrination, than truth sharing.
We were forced to see things in his way only.
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@DocAndersen (54399)
• United States
6 Mar 21
@innertalks i struggled with the truths my father shared with me until one day, things just came together. I began to see the truths he shared, in the way he shared them. Sometimes we have to see the way of the teacher first.
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Mar 21
He was very wise life teaches us thing every day and our brains must store the needed information, I had a good example of that myself today. I was doing my blogging and suddenly on my WordPress travel blog, I could not post photos. I thought about why and went back several times, Nothing. Then like a lightning bolt it hit me I have had that blog for many years and have kept all the photos in the media library even though I use them only one time, The memory was full, I deleted quite a few and voila made my posts, I said thank you Lord this brain still functions very well,
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
5 Mar 21
Ha, ha, I tend to do that too. I never get around to deleting much, or cleaning up my files, ever much at all.
My computer repairman hates to fix my computer, as he has so much data to copy, and he says, I should have deleted most of it, as I only used it once too, and then never again either.
I have hundreds, perhaps thousands of pictures of books, that I took over time, to include with my books, online, that I was trying to sell. I never go back and delete them either, even though now it is years since, I put that particular photo of that book online. Some have sold already too.
I sort of feel that if I ever get that same book again to sell, I will have its picture taken in my files already, ready to use again.
I told the computer nerd. The computer is meant to serve me, not me it.
He still was not happy with my reply, but he has the last laugh, as I end up paying him more for his work, as it takes him longer to fix it.
@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Mar 21
@innertalks well not being technical at all I was certainly glad that all it was, was just using common sense and getting the problem solved.I am lucky that my friends who live below me have the knowledge of computers so if I have a problem I just give a shout,
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
5 Mar 21
@RasmaSandra That is lucky. When I have a problem I have to contact a technician to fix it. I was worried during the lockdowns that I might not be able to get it fixed if it brokedown again.
I have an ongoing small problem, that no technician has ever been able to fix though, which is annoying for me.
About once a week, in the middle of my work, my computer shuts itself off, by itself, and so I lose whatever I was working on then too.
This has been an ongoing problem for many years now.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
5 Mar 21
I recall the words of Osho: Once, I had gone to bathe is a river. By bathing, the water cleansed the body. I told my friends " There is another river, bathe in it and you will cleanse the inner being too."
They asked which river is this? I answered "The river of love."
Love transcends our preoccupation with the mundane, inane, activities and sets our priorities right. Then it is a selfless life.
Good advice - we reap what we sow. Keeping God in mind is the best way towards fulfillment. .
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@innertalks (23746)
• Australia
6 Mar 21
Perhaps Osho took that from the story of Jesus Christ, at the well.
A lady was drawing some water from a well, and Jesus asked her for some water because he was thirsty.
He told her that in return he could give her some living water, if she wished him too, but she never understood what he meant.
That story is from Saint John's gospel, chapter 4, which goes like this.
"Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon."
"When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)"
"The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans."
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Living water is the living love of God, that always refreshes us as much as physical water does too.
@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
6 Mar 21
@innertalks Yes, when living water quenches our thirst once and for all, we can then forget mundane activities relating to our bodily needs. Then our preoccupation with earthly matters will cease.
However, there are also the few who are able to find balance between existing here and moving into a higher realm. We should all strive for that as only physical life become burdensome over time.
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@Shiva49 (28402)
• Singapore
6 Mar 21
@innertalks That is a quote that resonates with me Steve.
I believe so too. We are products of circumstances and react from our experiences.
Personally, I have seen barriers breaking down when I had no issues with those who had wronged me.
I make it clear I want to move on than get bogged down.
Vivekananda had exhorted not to forget we are from the same source and there is only one creator. Then all barriers dissolve into thin air.
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