Tao Te Ching
Black Elk
(Heȟáka Sápa)
1863 – 1950 CE
Holy Sioux Medicine Man, Heyoka (sacred clown), wounded warrior, seer of wisdom-visions; Black Elk was spiritual but pragmatic - he became Catholic because “My children had to live in this world,” but later told his daughter, “The only thing I really believe is the pipe religion.” He went to England with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1887, got lost, and traveled through Germany, France, and Italy where he saw that “The Holy Land is everywhere,” and returned with insight that inspired both the American Indian Movement and some of the best elements within European-American culture: civil rights, organic farming, renewable energy, sustainable living, and the environmental movement.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Quotes by Black Elk (14 quotes)
“All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.”
Chapters:
25. The Mother of All Things
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“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions.”
Chapters:
3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones
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“At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.”
Chapters:
25. The Mother of All Things
6. The Source
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“Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of the little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.”
Chapters:
30. No War
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“I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
Chapters:
75. Greed
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“It is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.”
Chapters:
35. The Power of Goodness
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“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe. It is every where.”
Chapters:
39. Oneness
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“The Holy Land is everywhere.”
Chapters:
14. Finding and Following the Formless Form
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“There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.”
Chapters:
54. Planting Well
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“I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight”
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“I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw”
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“They came and gave an herb to me, the day-break star herb, the herb of understanding... all creatures saw it and in no place was there any more darkness”
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“I had a vision because I was seeing in the sacred way and I saw myself on the central mountain of the world, the central mountain that is everywhere.”
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