Love and Responsibility
“The way of my people is to raise every child with the continual teachings of connectedness, responsibility, and love. That is the foundation of our education from the time we were born. The sense of belonging is your birthright, reinforced in every child and throughout life by the culture and family. It is so much a part of you that you trust you are always looked after.
I went into education with a deep appreciation for the vital importance of our cultural knowledge and spiritual understanding of the responsibilities we have as humans to live with integrity, compassion, reverence, humility, morality, and respect, in order to fit into the oneness of life. I was always taught that knowledge is responsibility, and that whilst no one can own knowledge, it’s the responsibility of elders to be keepers of knowledge, judiciously passing it down for the benefit of all who come after us. It’s clear today that it is my responsibility to share what was handed down to me from my old people as wisdom ways and spiritual teachings of living well in a world that seems to have forgotten how to live with love. It’s the birthright of all humanity to know the sacredness of all creation starting with the inner knowing of the sacredness within self.“
Uncle Bob
Kanyini Principles
Pronounced Kah-nyee-nee
Learn about the foundational principles of Kanyini that guide our relationship to life and all living things.
Tjukurrpa
Pronounced Chook’-oor-pah
Philosophy, Law and Belief System. Creation and the right way to live.
Kurunpa
Love, Spirit or Soul
Walytja
Pronounced Wall’-chah
Kinship, Family
Ngura
Pronounced “Ng”oo’-rah. Start with the “Ng” sound, as in “song”
Your Earth base, the land, belonging
Linking these four main areas of responsibility is the sacred principle of unconditional love and responsibility to all things that underpins Aboriginal life, which we call Kanyini.
“No matter what positives or negatives, good or bad, traumas or joys you experience in life, you can know that it’s possible for you, too, to live well, with love, in peace and harmony with each other and all things.”
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