The Lyrics From Ernie's Forest Chapter 421 Learning To Love All Living Things

We get so used to smashing bugs, cutting the heads off snakes and clearing the land of several hundred deer. Man is control of that! Yet we complain about crime and the murders associated. Why is this balance off? Learning to love all living things strengthens our connections in life. Time to stand on the sidelines like a silent wolf and learn new things about being present.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ernie. He's by Blue Crown Conyer, yep. And his name
is Ernie. For over thirty two years, he has overlooked
this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean, every
day Ernie and I sit in this beautiful, beautiful place
that overlooks the trees, the nearby lake, and every bit
the wildlife that's strolling so freely across the open land
of Mother Earth. Ernie and I share the same visions.

(00:23):
It's this forest. We both look into these trees and
study the earth below. I mean, there is something absolutely
spiritual going on here, and it's not brand new, It's
always been here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest. We both
receive an amazing amount of energy, and I put a
lot of trust and skills as a student into what
he's willing to share with me. These aren't my words,

(00:44):
These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, chapter number four
hundred twenty one, April sixth, twenty twenty four. What most
will never see, yet I'm willing to share the experience
from my podcast studio, which sits twenty three feet above
the forest floor. I'm able to speak to my creative
guests while physically watching nature play in its every day.

(01:08):
In the nearby trees and across the forest floor, I
have a full view of the lake, which draws a
lot of nature's living things to it for a source
of flow. My most favorite moments are usually when the
small herd of deers slowly pace their way through the
forest without a worry in the world. They stop. They
wave their giant white tails and wiggle their cute little

(01:30):
ears and embrace the coolness of the early spring breeze.
They seem so tame, and yet their timid frames would
leap away the moment that I would step on the
soil at which they walk on. From the podcast studio,
I'm gifted with such a view, learning to love all
living things while being a silent wolf on the sidelines.

(01:55):
Let me explain that last statement, because it really does
have roots and it's very deep inside my soul as
a creative person. I'm gonna read it again, learning to
love all living things while being a silent wolf on
the sidelines. That is one hundred percent drawn from my
years of becoming a third degree black belt in martial arts.
You know it's the foot fist way. What is the

(02:16):
way they can't teach you the way you have got
to be taught the way, in the way of making
a communicated effort with the universe that surrounds each and
every one of us. We were taught from day one
in martial arts, learn to love all living things. So
many of us want to go over there and squish
the bug, get rid of the flies. Oh there's a

(02:37):
copper head snake. We have to chop its head off.
Learn to love all living things because one of the
things that what we don't realize is that we too
are a living thing. And with so much war and
angst in the world today, learn to love all living things.
Do you understand where I'm coming from here? Because if

(02:58):
people don't love what you're doing, now, we have a
situation that affects you. If you're learning to love all
living things, you will find empathy and compassion in the
walks that you have as you move in any direction,
and they're usually decided by moment to moment, really big
efforts of someone else and not necessarily you. And then

(03:19):
it says that you know, while being a silent wolf
on the sidelines, that's an important place to be. I'll
never forget my sobonym in martial arts. He would take
me off the mat where I was out there trying
to learn new things, endlessly trying to do different things
and to figure everything out, because I believe that every move,
every decision in a match is going to be a storyline.

(03:41):
But if you can't figure out the storyline, where is
the reason why you're putting so much purpose in this plan?
Being a silent wolf on the sidelines. There, I was
on the side of the mats, not on the mat,
but I was studying the work of other students on
that mat. Sure it opened up the door for me

(04:02):
to become an instructor and to show others the fist
foot way. But once again, you can't be taught the way.
The only way you can do that is you become
one with everything inside the universe. So the challenge is
is that as you've been given this gift on the
birth of a brand new day, you've got to learn
how to love all living things. And in this forest, ooh,

(04:25):
there's a lot of living things and a lot of
things that would scare you to death. But then you
have to step to the sidelines like a silent wolf,
and you watch what is happening. Because everything in your life.
Be it a park, be it a city street, everything
in a business, it all has a plan, it all

(04:47):
has a purpose. Sometimes you need to step off your
self guided path and step to the side to watch
all the other paths. In forward emotion, I'm MARYL. These
are not my words, these are the lyrics from Ernie's
Forest