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The Wisdom of Whales
Self-acceptance is inherent in all animals and can be best understood by observing nature. At Puerto Madryn in Argentina, for example, dozens of right whales come to breed in the calm waters surrounding the Valdes Peninsula. It is amazing to get close to such enormous creatures. They are the biggest animals in the world and surely among the most powerful, yet all they do is radiate love. It’s incredible. It’s all you can feel. They are pure peace, pure love, and yet they are so big. They look at you lazily through the shimmering water as if you’re some rare breed of insect, and then down they go again.
The whales come with their babies, and those babies drink two thousand liters of milk a day. So poor Mom spends most of her time nursing. All the baby wants to do is feed - he’d be happy to drink ten thousand liters of milk a day. When she gets tired of feeding him, she rolls over onto her back so he can’t reach her nipples. The baby starts slapping Mom with his tail in an attempt to make her roll over. It’s a relatively powerful thing to have a baby whale slapping you with its tail, but Mom just lies there in perfect peace. She lets him have his little temper tantrum and continues to rest, even when he’s getting annoyed. She doesn’t judge herself; she doesn’t think, I shouldn’t get tired so easily. I’m not giving enough to my children, poor things. Animals never judge themselves. To them everything is perfect.
When the mother has rested, she teaches the baby how to jump out of the water. When Mom jumps, it’s magnificent. It’s poetry in motion. When the baby tries to copy, he’s a disaster! He does big belly flops and isn’t impressive at all. But his mother doesn’t say,”Oh my God, you’re not doing it properly! You’re embarrassing me in front of the other whales! I mustn’t be a very good teacher…” No. She just keeps leaping, and he keeps practicing, until they are in perfect union, perfect synchrony.
Nature doesn’t judge. It’s pure love, pure being, perfectly in the moment because it’s not thinking all the time. Such is the nature of enlightenment.
Adapted from: Why Walk When You Can Fly, by Isha (New World Library, 2008).
Isha Judd is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and author; her latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explain her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness. Learn more at www.whywalkwhenyoucanfly.com.
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add your comment »water on my sailboat watching nature. I was never happy until then, haven't been since. There is a magic that one lives when living in the wild or on the waters' wilds. Running through rainbows on kayaks with rain in one place and then not in another, soulful and heavenly. I will always remember the few years I was happy and nobody can take that away. IT WAS SHEER BLISS, HEAVEN, LOVE, LIFE, HAPPINESS, JOY, NIRVANA, AND it was good. There is no reason to live on the land with all the yuk, cars, and foolishness. If I died tomorrow, left this plane, I'd be happy knowing my best days were in nature and I'd already lived them. Reminds me of my fav. saying: "Don't feel stupid if you don't pretend to like what everybody www.tibetangoji.ca
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I LOVED the article! It made me feel good. Humans can learn a lot from animals.
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Just beautiful. Thank you.
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Extraordinary article. Thank you for sharing.
Blessings
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I needed that bit of hope. Thank you.
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The only splendid and magnificent blessed times I ever had were on the water on my sailboat watching nature. I was never happy until then, haven't been since. There is a magic that one lives when living in the wild or on the waters' wilds. Running through rainbows on kayaks with rain in one place and then not in another, soulful and heavenly. I will always remember the few years I was happy and nobody can take that away. IT WAS SHEER BLISS, HEAVEN, LOVE, LIFE, HAPPINESS, JOY, NIRVANA, AND it was good. There is no reason to live on the land with all the yuk, cars, and foolishness. If I died tomorrow, left this plane, I'd be happy knowing my best days were in nature and I'd already lived them. Reminds me of my fav. saying: "Don't feel stupid if you don't pretend to like what everybody else loves." I will never love what people have done to this earth. Never.
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What profound lessons nature has to offer if we take the time to observe--thank you Isha for sharing your lovely insights!
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This is what life is about... loving, living, enjoying, not judging...
Some day I will get to this point.
Thanks for inspiring us Isha!
Love ya,
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A very interesting topic. I especially like the comments from Ellyn S.
I for some time now have looked upon Whales as a sort of Guardian of our beautiful Planet Earth and our Spirituality ... it's as if they are there to communicate with us ... to let us know all is not well with the Oceans and that we MUST act soon to stop, or at least dramatically cut down on pollution.
The Oceans control our weather patterns our temperature and rainfall and much more !
I believe originally ALL life on our planet began in the Oceans, after all they form the majority of our Planet's surface area.
I believe the Whales are the true indication of how the Human Race is evolving.
I believe the Whales can, and do communicate with us, almost on a Deity level; or at least passing on instructions from a Supreme Intelligence / Spirituality of the Universe,
and right now they are telling us in a very clear way, that we must take a step back and make amends for the damage we have done to our beautiful Planet Earth...
telling us to stop burning fossil fuels and use our most abundant resource WATER which is made up of Hydrogen and Oxygen. The Hydrogen can power our motor cars, our aeroplanes and provide much of our needs, and wind and sunshine and tides can provide the rest ! and when we have used Hydrogen as power the end result is back to WATER ... NO pollution, NO waste.
Isn't it time we took notice of the Whales ?
they are sending us a very clear message !
Help them, and help the Planet !
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the forests. Even some people believe this just needs to take its course. I, Helio-ah, say that the way to understand the Earth changes should start with those who are able to connect telepathically to the spirit of the Earth and understand what needs to be modulated in the feedback loop of the environment. In particular, the feedback loop involved in the Earth changes needs to start with the oceans, and not necessarily only from the greenhouse gasses that are released into the air.
AND ALSO:
38. Whales are stranding themselves not because they no longer are needed to anchor light on the planet, but because US Navy testing in their habitat has damaged their sonar capability. The influence of the departed dark forces on their weak-willed puppets on the planet is responsible for the “national security” testing and the slaughter of whales for “scientific” purposes. However, even when the cetaceans, who species-wide are the most spiritually and intellectually evolved souls on Earth, physically die, they have agreed that their energy will remain and continue to anchor the light being beamed from distant civilizations.
Message from Matthew, February 7, 2009
http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=98&z=2
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