One Noble Truth

By Lomakayu

In Medicine of One, Clay Lomakayu invited us to travel the path to the center of the self, which was born out of his own spiritual journey and working with clients helping them do the same. In One Noble Truth, Lomakayu focuses on what it means to live from that center. From here we are a beacon of peace, harmony and balance through the action of compassion which when we stand at the center begins with our self. This living at the center is the greatest gift we can give both the world and ourselves. By doing so we become a channel through which the infinite creative mind expresses itself through a very personal uniqueness that we all are. We honor the oneness we share with all life, but at the same time we honor a beauty that we each shine onto the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Dec 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781716148361

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One Noble Truth

Living at the Center

Lomakayu

Edited by Patty Kay Hall

and

Anne Miller

2016

Circle Books

Cottonwood, AZ, USA

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Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2016

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements                               v

Preface

xix

1. A Noble Journey                         1

2.  The Choice                                6

3.  Freedom Through Compassion              12

4.  The Circle Lives Within Us                     18

5.  The Trail Of Our Truth                   27

6. The Spine Of Your Life                   35

7.  Loss of Deep Listening                   44

8.  Thinking                               50

9. I Don't Know                               58

10.  Clear the Way                               66

11.  The True Action Of Self-Love             74

12. Nothing Gets Thrown Out Of The Circle       82

13.  Loving the Hungry Ghost                   88

14.  The Warrior and the Victim                   91

15.  Surrender                         95

16.  Flow                                     102

17. The Magic of Living At the Center              110

18.  The Path                                   118

19.  Earnest Commitment                    122

20.  The Center                                 130

Preface

My name is Lomakayu. It means … Everything Finished Well.  I live in the desert and the desert lives in me.  Your story is mine.  I am above no single one.  On my path of the Medicine of One all the stories of humanity and individual humanness are mine.  I invite you to do the same.  Stand above no one.  Let everyone’s story be your story as movements in the One that you are.

Medicine of One is a Circle formed from many influences. It shares much with the predecessor of all religions and spiritual traditions ~ shamanism, an earth based spirituality. Shamanism is everywhere on the earth people have inhabited. It was born from the First People of these lands.

The land of my Circles is a land resonant with 12,000 years of human history. Before the Yavapai and Tonto Apache lived here, it was the ancient land of the Hopi. Slightly to the North are the Navajo, whose stories of the land and living at the center I also resonate with. The wisdom of all these First Peoples exudes from the land and joins with the Eastern traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism in my Circle, which also have their shamanic origins.

I pay homage to all wisdoms born from the earth in our search for meaning and truth. All of them inevitably base themselves in compassion. Compassion is the Circle of Medicine of One. I haven't created anything. I have listened to what vibrated with the sound of truth until these collected notes formed a song. You hold that song in your hands. May it strike a chord in you that helps you come home to yourself.

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Chapter One

A Noble Journey

When the great flood was upon them the Hopi migrated across the Pacific Ocean over seven stepping stones, one of which was the Hawaiian Islands, and eventually landed in Central America.  Here, they were instructed by their earth god, Maasaw, who is also the god of fire and death, to migrate in the four directions to where the land meets the sea and then turn around and come back. Once these movements were completed they were to settle at the center place where the lines all meet: the center of a cross. This place at the center was called Oraibi - place where the earth is solid.  In this center, where the Hopi still live, they embrace the responsibility for keeping the world in balance as part of the spine of the whole tribe.  They do this not only by living at the center place but also through their actions of ceremony, dance, music, and thought, which vibrate out into the world.  This is part of the path of being a traditional Hopi.

The parallels between this tribal responsibility of living at the center and living at the center of your own personal Circle of self can clearly be seen.  When you live at the center of the Circle of who you are this Circle is connected to the whole world without separation.  This means by living from this center in your own immediate everyday world, a vibration ripples out into the greater world to keep it in balance and harmony.  This is the best thing you can do for the whole world.

Just as the Hopi journeyed to the center of their own grand labyrinth to arrive at a place of solid ground, we too must journey to the center of the self … a journey to solid ground where we vibrate through our presence. In this place of solid ground no matter what happens in the world outside of you, if you remain committed to the path of living there, the directions are truly within you.  So when the earth of your world reverses and shifts, you remain with your feet on the ground.  With your feet on the ground you realign with the true north of yourself.

What does it mean to have solid ground under your feet?  What does it mean to dwell in a place that can survive the great traumas?  Being grounded is a very common term associated with stability and peace.  What causes us to be ungrounded?  The word ungrounded means the inability to occupy NOW, this moment. All our unmoved history blocks the way.

If you have the feeling of having no center, like a ship adrift on the sea without the power to move or the inner compass to direct and guide, then finding your center is the journey of coming home to yourself.

        But the journey is within, a journey that can be lived even if you stay in one physical location your whole life.  The true migrations are a journey to the center of yourself. How can you journey to something you already are and always have been?

At some point you have to awaken in the dream and choose to live consciously if you want peace.  Consciousness is not the thinking mind. The thinking mind is like a spider’s web spinning out of consciousness.  It’s the labyrinth turned into a maze. A labyrinth is quite simple. It has one entrance and one route that twists and turns but carries you to the center. All you have to do is follow the route. A maze can have many entrances, branches, and dead ends. It generates confusion. The more you try to think your way out, the more lost you get. In the maze you are guided by desire, hunger, and fear which mean control and a lot of thinking.

The real you is right there before the spinning begins.  Will the maze live you, polarize, and magnetize you into the endless spin of cycles, which never lead to the center?  Or will you wake up and choose to clear the way and walk the labyrinth to the center that has always been there?

If you follow the journey of the labyrinth, the first two rounds seem to lead us away from the center, often like the first stages of our lives, we lose both the power of our soul and the knowing that directs us.  The center can be misperceived as lying in this visible world of particular places, things, people or even states of being which need to be acquired.  Be very mindful of what you want.  If your want is to be loved, appreciated, and valued and that is your true north, your compass will gyrate endlessly, moving from one so-called true north to another.  You will be ruled by the hunger for these things.

Even if you don’t know where something is going to lead you, if your intuitive compass is magnetized to the true north of who you are, the center, the journey becomes the destination. The center is always with you. They are inseparable as you leap out of the maze and move toward the center of the labyrinth, which is the Circle. In this journey simplicity begins to rule.

The center is the feeling of flow, surrender, knowing, trust, confidence, and openness, protected not by a hard wall, but with your soft radiance.  It is the little you that gets out of the way, so that life is simply done through you perfectly and not by you.

Experience is the stone sculptor’s chisel.  The deepest cuts are not when we get what we want, but rather when something unwanted crosses our path. Pain shapes us more than pleasure.  Who wants change when everything feels good?  Pain is often the jolt that thrusts us out of a state of complacency, but it can drive us into a corner of inertia and suffering if we run from it. When we run from pain that’s when we hit the wall in the maze.  This running is mirrored in the racing of the mind banging against the walls where there seems no exit.

It’s time to grab the thread of the true self, which guides us out of the maze of the survivalist mind, and transform the maze into a labyrinth whose inward spiraling brings us home to the center where both maze and labyrinth are now a simple Circle, circles within circles on into infinity.

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Chapter Two

The Choice

In the Hopi Myths of the previous worlds it’s greed that is considered the true source of the imbalance that destroyed each world. We can be greedy for many things: power, land, resources, love, money or anything you want, desire