Coyote's Message
Coyote has come back to the city of San Francisco. How many of us feel shame? Not in some heavy way, but in a positive sense, a sense of opening up. Buddha pointed out that not feeling shame at wrongs means big trouble in the soul. He didn’t want us to create a culture of shaming—and certainly not shame for what we look like or whom we love (assuming it’s all ethical)—but he did encourage us to see the value of our emotional response to an unethical situation, especially one we participated in, however indirectly.
In this moment, a council of elders might say, “Coyote has returned to this place, come into the city to get our attention. The medicine workers, shamans, and philosophers have told us Coyote comes as an emissary, telling us we must return the land back to the World, for it does not belong to us, and we have treated this place like a possession, like an object, to use however we fancied. We have seen the wisdom in their counsel, and heard Coyote’s message. Some of the elders saw all of this in a dream as well. We must now find a skillful way to make it happen, to return the land to the sacred powers and inconceivable causes, lest the Divine think we have not learned the lessons of this plague, and then sends us more severe lessons to learn. We must change the way we live. We must return to a good path.”
Who will listen to Coyote? Who will let Coyote speak?