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An Old Cherokee Saying/Teaching
He continues, “This same fight is going on inside the hearts of everyone, including you.” The grandson thinks about this for a few minutes, and then asks his grandfather,
“Which wolf wins?”
“The one you feed.”
The following is not to deny the Cherokee teaching. It is to question the idea of making war within one's own self. After all there is a constant interchange between the left and the right, between pessimism and optimism, good and bad, and negative and positive. This polarity always exists. These two belong together. When things are bad sooner or later they become good and this seesaw continues.
These two polarities show up in symbolism worldwide, the good brother and the bad brother, god and the devil and on and on the stories go. The word Duality could be used in this context as well.
Looking at electricity we have the negative and positive. These two working together create electrical energy we use everyday to run all sorts of gadgets that improve our lives. If these two make war, short circuit, we get a burn out, a fire and the electrical gadgets stop working due to the war between the two.
Isn't it better to have the dark wolf and white wolf cooperate? This is why I question the teaching.
In my own healing journey I have dug myself out of a very dark hole once again. A number of years ago I would be thinking of how I can get out of this mess and end up saying to myself; "I am Fxxcked." This slowly began to change, especially when I decided to not run from my own inner pain, misery and suffering, but to sit with it instead and descend into the darkness within my self. The underworld where the dark wolf resides. I had to take breaks along the way when it became to much, but, the next time it surfaced I would continue to descend.
One day I reached the point where I was gathering and holding a totally shattered piece of myself. This piece was like a glass vase that had been dropped onto a marble floor and shattered all over the place. I felt terrible and totally shattered. No pain. I just held it all in a vibration of love and caring. Then it all magically changed. I haven't had the inner calling to decent into my own darkness since then and I feel healed at a deep level which has allowed more happiness and laughter to return. A feeling of wholeness permeates my being. This does not mean the work is completed, far from it. I do expect more as I move down my own pathway I will see how life unfolds as time goes by.
This is another reason I don't agree with starving the dark wolf, but, healing the dark wolf who resides in the inner underworld, instead, which creates wholeness which can't be avoided forever as the time will come to do so and that individual timing is in perfection.
In the Sioux teaching they mention the forked tree. The two branches are rooted with the same trunk and root systems. If one branch makes war on the other branch, eventually one branch breaks off and where does this leave the remaining branch? Wouldn't it be better to create harmony instead of war?
A good example of the forked tree are the two main religions, Islam and Christianity each a branch connected to the same trunk and root system which is the old testament and then branches off at some point. One branch thinks they are better and more favored by God than the other, which I consider not true at all.
This polarity we see outside ourselves, is really inside, in many many ways. In each individual we have the invisible twins which has nothing to do with gender. The Divine Masculine and the Divine Famine. These internal twins is where the work needs to be done in order to change our outer circumstances to a life we much prefer. It is to learn how to get these two to work in harmony within to create better external circumstances. Is this the same as the black and white wolves?
It is like a chariot being pulled by the two wolves. The The chariot rider is in control and in this case his/her mind needs to be balanced between the two polarities which may be the key in all this.
The Divine Female has all the answers needed to solve the problem. The Divine Masculine needs to learn how to listen to the Divine Feminine, in stillness to receive the intuitive quite messages with the answers and solutions and then create this within which reflects outwards. This is the pathway to proper balance. As we can easily see in our outer world the male is not listening to the female and creates chaos, misery and suffering as a result. Reminder, this is not about gender.
[ A Lone Wolf ]