Under The Quandong Tree

For example, if we accept that anger is part of who we are, when we recognise we are angry we have a chance to construct, dig, build, and carry heavy burdens with the strength that anger builds within us. Likewise too much compassion, and we drown in it. To have compassion is to give, tend and nurture, but in our perfectly imperfect state, this can

Everything that is living is part human; everything therefore is part of us. If we senselessly take life we are bleeding our own life away. If one thread is broken, we can unravel our own beingness and die.

Dreaming

Creation. So how can we pursue spiritual enlightenment on one hand and contribute to the destruction of the teaching place, Nungeena-tya, our mother, on the other? Who would stand by and watch their mother be bludgeoned and raped? We come from the Earth, Nungeena-tya, and she feeds us on her breast milk from the day we are born until the day we die

Women’s business includes medicines, foods, learning about women’s sacred places, fertility areas and birthing areas. What is a birthing cave? Why is it there? What is the importance of sacred water? Why and how it should be cared for? What does it mean to us, and how is it important to our very survival?

We have an obligation, as keepers of Creation, to our children. And they have an obligation to their children, and their children to their children. The obligation is that the first teaching they are given is about the Oneness of Creation and its importance to our survival. Sitting and telling is not enough. We have to live it every day and every m

Because children can let their essence take control, it is important for you to help them to continually learn to be in control. You tell them, say, about the bandicoot essence that they have. It starts from this age and you tell the stories over and over and over. So then your children know themselves so well they are on their way to becoming inti

Women’s business has to do with a way of life that keeps families and communities together supporting each other. It’s walking every day and living every day a spirituality of helping each other and especially caring for the Earth, our mother, Nungeena-tya, who is dying around us.

It’s all about knowing where you belong. It’s OK to be, say, an Anglican Christian child being reared in Australia and getting the Anglican teachings but still learning how to do your own Dreaming story in school. And it’s all right for a child to be brought up in Australia in the Muslim faith and learn to do this in school. It’s about our country