Sulak Sivaraksa, Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society, Parallax Press, 1992,140 pages

doi:10.7202/013452ar

Sulak Sivaraksa, Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society, Parallax Press, 1992,140 pages

Reflets Revue d’intervention sociale et communautaire ◽

10.7202/013452ar ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 221

Keyword(s):

Seeds Of Peace

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the Seed is the Law

The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education ◽

10.1017/s1326011100003963 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 53-60

Author(s):

Eileen M. Antone

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Aboriginal People ◽

Royal Commission ◽

Aboriginal Communities ◽

The People ◽

The Law ◽

Seeds Of Peace ◽

Policies And Programs ◽

The Many ◽

Ways Of Life

AbstractSince humanities arise from a specific place and from the people of that place, this article will focus on Peacemaker’s revolutionary teachings about the seed of law. Long before the people from across the ocean arrived here on Turtle Island (North America) there was much warfare happening. According to John Mohawk (2001, para. 1), an Iroquoian social historian, “[t]he people had been at war for so long that some were born knowing they had enemies [but] not knowing why they had enemies”. Peacemaker planted the seeds of peace which resulted in the Kayenla’kowa, the Great Law of Peace (n. d.), which is the basis of the Hotinosh^ni Confederacy. With the burial of the weapons of war under the Great Tree of Peace the Hotinosh^ni were able to develop their rituals and ceremonies to reflect their relationship with creation. This peaceful confederacy was disrupted shortly after the Europeans arrived with their violent imperialistic ways of life. The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal People (RCAP) documented the situation of Aboriginal communities, which was the result of oppressive policies and programs of colonialism. The RCAP also captured the many different voices of the Aboriginal people in their struggle to revitalise their traditional teachings that will make them strong again.

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