Power Sentence: "By the conscious decision to live in a holy way we attract the information, the understanding and the teachings that will help us to use our gifts to the benefit of all." (Dhyani Ywahoo)

Create Silence
Learn to create silence in your mind and peace will flourish in your soul. You will see life with other eyes. You will discover God's language. To be internally silent do not think too much. Trust yourself. Trust others. Trust life. You will find it is easier than it seems.

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo


Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo is a Spiritual leader, Peacemaker and Author of Voices of Our Ancestors. She is Chief of the Ani Yun Wiwa (Cherokee) and the Founder of Sunray, an International Organization and NGO dedicated to planetary peace. Venerable is recognized as Khandro ( Dakini, Sky Dancer), one who reveals secret teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Dharma

"Seeing the bounty and ease within and all around and diligently fanning the flame of certainty opens the channel for dissonance to resolve naturally into harmony."

Dhyani Ywahoo
Voices of Our Ancestors
www.gratefulness.org
WORD FOR THE DAY
Sunday, Jun. 1

Power Text:
(by Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of our Ancestors, Shambhala Publications)

Following your breath, paying attention to your breathing, you can become more conscious of how you can manifest your potential(...) My grandma made me hold a broomstick in both hands and jump over it. She said that I was thinking too much to one side, and that this exercise would help me to find my balance. It is a great challenge to have to jump over a broomstick this way. Either you are really present and balanced or you will fall on your nose. What my grandma wanted to tell me was: "Your deeds are more significant than your promises. They must be put into practice now."And she deepened the lesson further: She taught me that a task becomes easier when you consider it already done. I thought it would be difficult to jump over a broomstick this way. She said: "Your thoughts are as important as your deeds. All doing starts in your head.". I thought about it for four days and when it had become clear to me I jumped over the broomstick with ease. Because we live we have the opportunity to watch life, to recognise the gift of brain power and to take a choice: to manifest the creative voice which will build up a world of beauty, a world of peace to the benefit of all living beings up to the seventh generation. This is why empathy, compassion and taking care of oneself and others are so important. What we do today, what we think about ourselves in this very moment, has an impact on the whole life circle. Our thinking is a power in itself.

Meditation Text:
(by Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of our Ancestors, Shambhala Publications)

In the past one achieved redemption through a Saviour, a great teacher. Nowadays we are all requested to integrate the concept of the Saviour into ourselves. Let us save through the clearness of the language, the purpose and the doing - through a harmonious life and through respect for the future generations. May our heart always recognise the clear light of mind and spirit. Let us affirm the wholeness of our being human. Let us affirm the way of the self-completing decisiveness within ourselves as well as in all relationships. Let us respect the clear light of mind and spirit within every human being whom we meet. The path of Beauty, of the Great Peace is our "meeting ourselves", the perception of our mind and spirit, the termination of those waves and forms of thinking, which lead to disagreement. Let us sow the seeds of peace in all our doing, in all our thoughts and in all our words. Let us renew the "holy circlet".

How can you create priorities in your life that will create the right order? The first priority of life is to remain loyal to the creative principle inside you, to realise that you own the gift of life and that you are the guardian of this gift.
Be aware of the power of your mind and spirit; do not forget that we are all in the process of transformation, developing ourselves, and treat yourself to the state of being free of doubt. We can choose, we can weave, we keep the form, we dance the form (...) We are humans. We can live in harmony with the world and in respect. We can make peace, enable ourselves to be peaceful. This is an affirmation, a hope, a vision. Through the force of its sound it is reality.

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Dhyani Ywahoo
Sunray Meditation Society
An international spiritual society dedicated to planetary peace, with three distinct schools Native American Studies, Buddhist Studies, and Healing Arts.
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Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo's training to carry the ancestral traditions began in early childhood, under the direction of her grandparents and elders. As repositories of the sacred knowledge of their people, they passed to Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo the spiritual duty and blessing to carry the traditions on which the work and teachings of Sunray are based. The elders foresaw Ven. Dhyani's duty to be involved in the manifestation of world peace, and that this work would bring many people and nations again to see the clear light of right relationship.

Sunray has offered instruction in meditation practice in the Tibetan Buddhist traditions since 1976, following meeting between Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo, a Cherokee elder and Sunray's founder, and the 16th Karmapa. This meeting had been foretold by prophecies from both the Native American and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. In the 8th century Guru Pamasambhava foretold of the Dharma spreading West from Tibet. "When the iron bird flies and ponies run on wheels," he said, "the Dharma will spread to the land of the red men." Venerable Dhyani's grandparents had seen visions of their people meeting men with red hats, similar to those worn by Tibetan masters.

Throughout the 1970s and 80s, Venerable Dhyani received teachings and blessings from many renowned Buddhist masters who affirmed her vision of the deep relationship between the Buddhist Dharma and the teachings of the Cherokee lineage. H.H. Dudjum Rinpoche and H.H. Chetsang Rinpoche bestowed upon her the title of Khandro traditionally given to female masters. Before and after these meetings Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo received visions and teachings from Buddhist saints. Guru Padmasambhava instructed that in the ultimate view, the display of Sunray's diverse activities was the manifestation of his Dzogchen vision of Buddhism in this time and place.

In 1986, Dhyani Ywahoo's son was recognized as the Drikung Kagyu tulku H. E. Changlochen Rinpoche by His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche, head of the Drikung Kagyu school. Since H.E. Changlochen's enthronement, Venerable Dhyani and the Sunray community have hosted many teachings with His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche and other masters of the Drikung Kagyu and Nyingma lineages, including Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche, Garchen Rinpoche, Ontrul Rinpoche, Tulku Ayang Rinpoche, and Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Donggyal Rinpoche. These teaching retreats have been held at the Sunray Peace Village, a sanctuary for spiritual practice in the quiet valley nestled in the Green mountains of Vermont.