If I had to explain what it means to follow the buffalo in today’s
world, I would give this example : Imagine a child who fools around in the living room
while his parents are absent. He knocks over a vase and the vase breaks….The child
can react in two different ways :
He can hide the pieces of the vase so nobody notices what he has done. Maybe during
several days, the parents won’t notice that the vase is missing, but the child will
suffer from different emotions such as fear, guilt, and stress. And when the parents
discover the truth, he’s in trouble because not only he broke the vase but he
didn’t say anything !
This child did not face the storm but ran away from it. An another child will break a vase
but he will tell his mother immediately. He won’t have experienced any stress or the
other unpleasant emotions the other child had to live with. He entered the storm but came
out very fast and didn’t suffer as much as the other child.
This is what we mean by following the buffalo and it can be very useful in today’s
world.
Too often people use their heads but not their hearts.
The head says :
What I do is ugly, I like what you are doing better
I would like to be somebody else
I have so little, if I share I will have even less
It’s your fault, you made me do it
I don’t know how to do this
And so on..
The heart says :
I want you to have this, just because you’re my friend
Tell me about your culture, it’s so interesting !
I’m sorry I behaved this way, will you forgive me ?
Look at yourself in the mirror and say « I love you ».
No one can make me happy if I can’t do it myself
And so on..
My people say :
Use your heart when you deal with people, and your head for maths and physics. If you know
the difference, then you can grow. Some people never grow. Try to find the right balance
so that your head and your heart can shake hands.
 Blackfoot Medicine Man, painting by George Catlin
We live as one with the nature.
We know that earth is round, the moon is round, the sun is round..
The earth circles around the sun, the moon circles around the earth, the earth turns
around on itself, night and day, all the time.
All natural movement of the universe is a circle. So are our relationships with other
creatures. If we want other people to be nice to us, we must treat them accordingly,
because everything we do comes back to us some day.
The past, the present and the future are the same. When we die, we become past and our
bodies return to the earth. Grass grows from this earth and the buffalo eat that grass.
Our children will eat those buffalo and so we become a part of our children.
This is the circle of life.
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