Glympse into Deeper Hawaiian Wisdom

A  L  O  H  A !

 

My brain, my thinking,

ideas

always dominated

 my life.

Symbols, 

and wisdom traditions,

tantalized me

with information

on how to think of life,

and perhaps 

how to live it.

I gave lip service to the importance of

my body,

but it was still mostly

a transport

for the Brain;

a pack animal,

a maintenance issue.

I wore my body,

more than WAS

my body.

Becoming involved in REIKI

which is all about the flow of

ENERGY,

helped me to FEEL

and experience information

and healing

throughout my being,

and not just to

 think about it.

Be-ing in wellness

is better

than describing it!

Who needs to figure it all out

(I wondered)

if intuition in the present

timely reveals

just what one needs

to know

? 

Recently, I had the privilege

of listening to

3 generations of a local family

known as preservers of 

Hawaii's ancient wisdom:

Pualani Kanaka`ole Kanahele,

Kekuhi Kanahele,

& Kaumaka`iwa Kanaka`ole.

[ Part I Here ]

My ears perked up when they began discussing

what it is like to live 

with the ancient chants

in day to day life.

Hawaiians did not write things down.

They saw deeply into the essence

of the information

that they wanted to preserve,

and created a chant

which was passed down

throughout their long history

as a people.

Pualani said that Big Island chants

contain the geological history

of that island.

This confirmed what I had noticed:

The Kumulipo,

the Hawaiian Creation Chant

 of the Very Beginnings,

resonates deeply

with modern science's

Big Bang version.

The chants tell in detail

the geological history of this specific place,

the island of their creation.

Chants describe the pouring of the lava,

what first grew here,

and describe in deep detail

the weather patterns that arise

from these conditions.

"This is the same space we live in,

today

just in a different 

time frame."

Pualani told us.

"These chants are still applicable."

The information of the chants

still applies.

And as new land is poured,

this is all made obvious

to observation. 

It is indeed awesome

to see first the land's

cooling, the first ferns,

lichen, and small creatures

that set up house-keeping

just as chanted

for thousands

of years

I would say that

Hawaiian geological understanding,

and astronomical observation,

not to mention navigation

and psychology

are now understood to be

far superior

to the western versions

that claimed superiority

over them

after 'contact.'

" To chant

is not just about

words.

One's feet must be flat

to the `Aina (Earth).

The tone and pitch

and reverberation

are all key parts of the chant, "

Like a Gregorian Choir,

Buddhist chants,

the Muezzin's call to prayer,

the throb in a Rabbi's throat,

or the frequency

 of a medical laser

rightly tuned-

changes will occur,

results will come.

"Natural phenomena

reply and respond

when we chant,"

Pualani shared.

" Words combined with

certain rhythm

and melody 

open a portal,

a channel.

Hawaiians of old

were sensitive to the

information and energies

that emerged.

Each phase of the moon,

every night,

teases and stimulates

different plants,

animals,

and energies 

down here.

This information

remains valid today,

and still guides the activities

of many farmers,

gatherers, fishers.

Some nights

are pointless for fishing,

some are not to be missed!

"Different moons

'titillate'

different responses."

Under the 'Hua' Moon

it is easy to get pregnant,

lava too is effected

by the same 'pulling'

forces

of this moon's energy.

The moon

at the time of your birth

is a key part of 

Hawaiian astrology,

determining much

about your health,

aptitudes,

and character.

Wonder what the moon looked like

on the night of my birth?

" On a deep level

all life responds

to salt, water

& movement."

 Kaumaka`iwa

told us. 

"The 'Wai-Principle'

is in all life.

Wai (fresh water)

and Kai (salt water)

are interdependent aspects

of one truth.

Wai could not exist

without Kai;

Kai could not be

without Wai

also being.

And we creatures

could not exist

without the relationship

between both of them." 

"Hawaiian philosophy

must be practical,

& applicable.

Ku, Kane,

and the other Hawaiian gods

are primary phenomena,

not mere teaching stories 

or magical beings

from a time of myths."

" Our way of knowing 

evolves

with generations

of hearing oral chants,

of creating new ones,

and we do this all the time

around home. "

The word 'Orality'

was used, as were

other scholarly terms

and concepts

by these veteran scholars,

 respected educators,

and noted Kumu 

('sources')

of Hawaiian wisdom,

demonstrating their great

ability to live, move,

and act

in multiple realms.

"Voyaging

must remain

part of our experience

as a people,"

Explained Kaumaka`iwa,

who had just arrived from

the airport.

" Canoe? Airplane?

no matter.

We must put the 'New'

in 'Canoe'."

" There is much residual 

Mana

new chants are being

created."

Rarely do I speak of this

(this is me, Cloudia)

BUT-

The venerable Hawaiian

who taught me

some of the old ways

many years ago

ended the time

of instruction

with a session

in which each of us

students

was expected to affect

natural phenomena,

simply, observably. 

And so we each did.

I did.

The Hawaiians of old

recognized the familiar energy

of Jesus

when taught the gospels.

Aloha 

[Agape]

they well understood. 

What they didn't understand

was the emotional ignorance

of those strangers

from across the seas

who did not LIVE

this love,

but instead made of it

a magic formula of belief

and a rationale

of disrespect

and thievery.

                                            Thanks for looking in!

Any comment 

you care to leave will be valued-

                                                                                                                          Warmly, cloudia