Simplicity

The day i started realizing and understanding  at such a young age, i was deeply touched and facinated by my culture and way of life. just from listening (at times i was a bit nosey too lol)  to the teachings of my elders, shamans, medicine man, parents, the way they talked about how things were so much simpler back when they were kids, i was so interested. the way they talked bout true Indian bravery, folk wisdom and deep understanding of nature and their relation to it in the ecology of things.
I learning at such a young age, i was deeply fascinated with their deep relation to nature, the earth and the spirit world. it seems like there was a basic and common philosophy of nature and spirit between the peoples. the first principle is that we are embedded in a sacred circle of life and we resonate with it. we have responsibility towards life around us because in this circle of life, we affect everything and everything affects us. there is a deep rooted interdependence in the existence of things, a concept  i believe that echoed in the Buddhist beliefs and modern scientific thought. they built there homes, they hunted, and farmed. only taking what they needed from the earth and nature, nothing more. that was the simple way of life.
A very long time has passed from their youth to now, and some of the unspoiled cultural life have been completely embellished by the frenetic spread of the infinite short sightedness and destructive greed of Man's collective ego. i say this on behalf of many other tribes, sadly some have been completely wiped of the map.
Politics, Slave society, capitalism, consumerism, climate change, global warming, some things  i find deeply saddening!  we live in a fucked up generation. its near impossible to live the simple life my ancestors did. but the solutions are in our hands, we just have to have the determination to make it happen. we can start today, each one of us can make choices to change that with the things we buy, the electricity we use, the cars we drive, we can make choices to bring our individual carbon emissions to zero, and taking only what is needed from the Earth. Honor the Earth. i share with you my native wisdom,   my great ancestors lived without pain, suffering and always giving back to the Earth. they lived simple.