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 and knowledge shared in the writing and teaching of A Horse Leads me to Water. 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 deemed necessary for clarity.
A.U.M. – Aholmewa University and Mission. The primary physical campus of A Horse Leads Me to Water located in the northern Sacramento Valley of 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; non-duality or absolute reality.
Essence -the intrinsic nature or indispensible quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character; that which cannot be negated
Etymology – facts of the origin and development of a word; study of the true sense and original meaning of a word
Horse – 1) a large herbivorous single-toed hard hooved quadruped mammal; 2) a metaphor for nature (the universe) symbolising abstract concepts in a physical form
Ignorance – opposite of knowledge; nonapprehension or misapprehension of something. Ignorance is not necessarily stupidity, though it includes stupidity
Indigenous – originating or occuring naturally in a particular place, for example: We are indigenous to Earth.
Karma – a Sanskrit word generally meaning action
Kin – having common ancestry
Kinship – the quality or state of being kin;
Knowledge – apprehension, understanding, information, facts
Nevzorov, Alexander – “Sage of the North”, expert on educating horses in the art of haute ecole without coercion or physical control. founder of Nevzorov Haute Ecole, disciple of the influence of Antoine de Pluvenel
Nevzorov Haute Ecole – a School of science, study and education of the horse; also known as NHE
Ontology – science or study of being and the essesnce of things
Principle – a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief, behavior or a line of reasoning.
Reframe – to change the way something is expressed or considered
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.
Self-knowledge -cognition and understanding of the reality of your being
Unbound Stewardship – 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