Language is one useful tool in human communciation. With language we can compare, qualify, convey action, relate, and name. It can be used to make an idea, impression or feeling known or understandable to someone. Below are some word and phrase defintitions that are specific to the information I share in my writing and in my programs. For the most part these will be familar words, but I might be tapping into a deeper meaning of them than may be typically understood in contemporary usage. Some words will be context specific and their meaning as I am using them will be explained so that you can develop fluency within the perspective here. The list will grow and definitions may be revised or elaborated as I deem necessary for clarity.
A.U.M. – Aholmewa University and Mission. The primary physical campus for teaching A Horse Leads Me to Water located in the norhtern Sacramento Valley in California. Currently under development.
-A U M is also a grammatical device in the Mandukya Upanishad using Sanskrit syllables of A, U, M,, pronounced OM. to explain the three states of expericence of an individual: waking, dreaming and deep sleep as they appear in nondual Consciousness.
Aholmewa – pronounced; ah-HOL- mee – wah. The quasi anagram of A Horse Leads Me to Water intended as a nickname and as a stand alone word in its own right symbolizing the principle and values of nondual existential and psychological freedom.
Consciousness – with a capital C. The all pervading principle that illumines everything without being an agent, the immutable witness; the non-duality or absolute reality.
Horse – 1) a large herbivorous single-toed hard hooved quadruped mammal; 2) a metaphor for nature (the universe), relative reality, also known as the duality
Indigenous – originating or occuring naturally in a particular place, for example: We are indigenous to Earth.
Kin – having common ancestry
Kinship – the quality or state of being kin;
Principle – a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief, behavior or a line of reasoning.
Sacrifice – the act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important. Etymologically – “making sacred”
Sanskrit – language of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahmasutras (the triple canon of Vedanta), among the vast wealth of Vedic literature.
Unbound Stewardship – equal to karma yoga as a method of relating to and managing care of the horse with the value of non-jury and the surrender of control of the results of one’s actions. The horse is maintained for his own sake and the horse – human relationship is conducted in freedom.
Worldview – a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world, for example: a kinship worldview