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   Greetings / Namaskar   
      
   According to the Maori people of New Zealand, Rangi was the Sky Father and his   
   wife was the Mother Earth, Papa.  In the mythology of the Maori of New Zealand   
   / Aotearoa, Papa is the personification of the Earth and is a female goddess.   
   The    
   personification of the Sky - Rangi, a male god, fell in love with Papa and   
   embraced her. There is complete oneness.  And there is also no attributional   
   qualifications or vibrations in the Universe.  This was at a time when there   
   was no light in the    
   universe. At the beginning of time, Rangi, the male sky, and Papa, the female   
   Earth, were entwined in a static embrace. Rangi wanted with this embrace to   
   prevent the creation of the world.  However, the Creative Principle   
   (Papa) was permitted to act on that Consciousness (Rangi).  Papa and Rangi had   
   many children. Creation personified, and expressed in multiplicities.   
      
   The journey is then back to the source.  There is a spiritual essence in   
   everything.  While there is apparent heterogeneity, in essence all is   
   homogenous.  That is the theme of the piece below, which takes an approach of   
   melding Maori spiritual mythology    
   and Tantric meditation.   
      
   Dharma   
      
   ONE   
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   Perhaps now is the opportunity to look at the beginning.  Is Papa just another   
   name for the Cosmic Consciousness in whom all things lie?  Is Rangi just   
   another name for the Cosmic Operative Force which has the ability to create   
   everything?  Sky Father    
   and Earth Mother.  Therefore were Papa and Rangi the parents of all creation?    
   If so, then the universe is my homeland because I am a child and we are all   
   children from the same never ending forces of creation, operation and   
   destruction.  We are all    
   citizens of this Cosmos.   
      
   Rangi and Papa cannot bear to be separated.  Nor can we people as expressions   
   of those same forces be separated from each other.  We may have different   
   expressions - indeed we must all have different expressions. That is a fact of   
   life in a world, rather    
   a universe, of relativity. Everything is different.  But Rangi and Papa are   
   just like two sides of a piece of paper.  They are one.  Try to separate them   
   and there will be immense pain. This universe is their creation.   
      
   This universe is within their imagination.  Together this is the imagination   
   of Io (the Macrocosmic Mind - GOD).  The universe is created in the   
   imagination of Io, the Supreme Entity, so the ownership of this universe lies   
   with Io and not the microcosms (   
   including us people) created out of Io's imagination.   
      
   All the property of this earth, moveable as well as immovable, animate and   
   inanimate, does not belong to any particular individuals, but everything is   
   the common property of us all.  We all have a common source in the spiritual   
   sense.  Every living being    
   should be able to utilise their rightful share of this property, just like the   
   members of a joint family.   
      
   Like members of a joint family, living beings should safeguard this common   
   property in a befitting manner, utilise it properly and make adequate   
   arrangements so that everyone enjoys it with equal rights.  The Treaty of   
   Waitangi seems to be saying the    
   same thing.  So we in Aotearoa, in partnership together with each other, must   
   share our resources (physical, mental and spiritual) and ensure that everyone   
   lives with a sound body and a sound mind and with the basic necessities.    
   Sharing resources of all    
   types does not mean we all become the same.  That is an impossibility.  It   
   just means there are so many different expressions in the web of life.   
      
   Maori tribal land perhaps had behind it the idea of joint property and that we   
   should not forget even for a moment that this whole animate world is a large   
   joint family.  Nature has not assigned any property to any particular   
   individual.  Individual    
   ownership has been created by opportunists and selfish motives.  So it was   
   with Russell as a land speculator in the 1860's.   
      
   Under the Native Lands Act 1862 he sponsored a system that was socially   
   defective and that only provided opportunities for those who liked to grow fat   
   in a parasitic way.  This was just a step in the destruction of Maori cultural   
   and spiritual values,    
   which recognised the importance of the land.   
      
   A member of a partnership or joint family cannot be called a social being if   
   they do not have a common heart with other members, or if they do not accept   
   the high ideals and the self-evident truth of joint rights.  Accordingly a   
   system of individual    
   ownership cannot be accepted as absolute and final. Individual versus   
   collective life is the main difference between European and Maori cultures.   
      
   But "We are all one people" said Captain Hobson at the signing of the Treaty   
   of Waitangi.  Why has the fashion been to take this phrase in a negative way.    
   Papa and Rangi cannot bear to be separated.  This is a recognition of   
   oneness.  The unity of the    
   universe depends on oneness.  Just because we are all one people does not mean   
   that we cannot have different individual or collective expressions, eg Maori   
   and Pakeha.  Expressions may be different but that does not mean we cannot be   
   in unison as one    
   people.  So the negative image created around this expression is just an   
   exaggeration.   
      
   TWO   
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   Everything is the joint property of all living beings.  This has to be   
   recognised as a matter of principle.  After its recognition the ideas that   
   this is national and that this is foreign, that a particular person is fit for   
   the citizenship of a    
   particular country while others are not, or have less claim or no rights at   
   all, cannot stand.  Such words are narrow expressions.   
      
   All persons are world citizens by birth.  The ancient explorers taught us   
   that.  Papa and Rangi are still teaching us that.  Every person has the right   
   to go and settle anywhere and to live like a human being.  Things are getting   
   so mixed these days.  At    
   one time Maori people thought that the fantail was the portender of death.    
   Upon intermixing of Christianity the perspective of the fantail changed to   
   being one of the portender of life. See how things change through cultural   
   intermixing.  The same will    
   in time happen with the current dogma that Maori women cannot speak on the   
   marae.   
      
   Everything is always changing.  That is a part of the process of evolution.   
   Social Darwinism is however wrong in fact and in theory.  Evolution is not a   
   rat race of one group of persons trying to get there first.  It is not just a   
   competitive pursuit.     
   That kind of evolution is in fact counter-evolution. This is because it   
   implies genocide of one culture by the superior culture. How can that have   
   anything to do with evolution in the human sense when it amounts to   
   destruction.   
      
      
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