Tania Maron
There is an African tribe that has a very cute costume.
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the village center, and the whole tribe comes and surrounds. For two days, they will tell the man … all the good things he’s done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as a good being, each of us wanting security, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes, in the pursuit of these things, people make mistakes. The community sees those mistakes as a cry for help.
They then unite to lift it, to reconnect with their true nature, to remind him who he really is, until he remembers from the truth which he had temporarily disconnected: I’m good …
Sawabona Shikoba!
SAWABONA, is a greeting used in South Africa and to say:
When someone does something hurtful and wrong, they take the person to the village center, and the whole tribe comes and surrounds. For two days, they will tell the man … all the good things he’s done.
The tribe believes that every human being comes into the world as a good being, each of us wanting security, love, peace, happiness.
But sometimes, in the pursuit of these things, people make mistakes. The community sees those mistakes as a cry for help.
They then unite to lift it, to reconnect with their true nature, to remind him who he really is, until he remembers from the truth which he had temporarily disconnected: I’m good …
Sawabona Shikoba!
SAWABONA, is a greeting used in South Africa and to say:
“I RESPECT YOU, I appreciate YOU, YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO ME.”
In response SHIKOBA people say, that is:
“THEN, I EXIST FOR YOU”
