다디리 Dadirri

[야무]

우리 안에 있는 깊은 샘을 인식합니다.

#다디리 는 우리 안에 있는 깊은 샘을 인식합니다.

우리는 그것을 부르고 그것은 우리를 부르고 있습니다.

다디리를 경험할 때 당신은 다시 온전해집니다.

홀로 강둑에 앉거나 나무 사이를 걸을 수 있습니다.

가까운 사람이 세상을 떠난다 해도 이 침묵 속에서

마음의 평화를 찾을 수 있습니다. 말은 필요 없습니다.

오직 내면의 깊은 경청과 조용한 자각이 있을 뿐입니다.

다디리는 또한 당신이 어디에서 왔는지,

왜 여기에 있는지, 지금 어디로 가고 있는지,

어디에 속해 있는지에 대한 인식을 의미합니다.

냥이쿠룽쿠르족 원주민은 수천 년 동안

자연의 고요함 속에서 살아왔습니다.

다디리의 관조적 방식은 그들의 삶 전체에 퍼져 있습니다.

그것은 그들을 새롭게 하고 그들에게 평화를 가져다줍니다.

그것은 그들을 다시 완전하게 느끼게 합니다.

그들은 계절이 지남에 따라 반복해서 말하고 노래합니다.

오늘도 그들은 모닥불 주위에 모여 신성한 이야기를 듣습니다.

그들은 일을 서두르려고 하지 않습니다.

그들은 계절과 같은 자연스러운 과정을 따릅니다.

그들은 달의 각 단계를 관찰합니다.

그들은 비가 강을 채우고 메마른 땅에 물을 주기를 기다립니다.

황혼이 오면 밤을 준비합니다.

새벽이 다가오면 태양과 함께 일어납니다.

- A reflection by Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr 발췌 -

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/education/deep-listening-dadirri

Deep listening (dadirri)

Aboriginal people practice deep listening, an almost spiritual skill, based on respect. Sometimes called 'dadirri', deep listening is inner, quiet, still awareness, waiting – and available to everyone.

Aboriginal people passed on stories orally as they knew no writing. Listening to the story teller was vital to reproduce the story accurately to the next generation of story-tellers. Deep listening describes the processes of deep and respectful listening to build community—a way of encouraging people to explore and learn from the ancient heritage of Aboriginal culture, knowledge and understanding. [1]

A beautiful expression‎ from Central Australia is "Can they bend the knees?" It inquires if you can sit down and truly listen, [2] a prerequisite for effectively absorbing information, but also an allusion to how information is passed on in that area: by sitting on the red earth.

Deep listening is also called dadirri, a word from the Ngan'gikurunggurr and Ngen'giwumirri languages of the Aboriginal people of the Daly River region, 220 kilometres south of Darwin, NT. All First Nations have their own word for meditation, deep listening, knowing and reflecting. For example, in the Wiradjuri language the word is Winhangadhurinya. [3]

[ #Dadirri ] is in everyone. It is not just an Aboriginal thing.

— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, Aboriginal writer [4]

Aboriginal writer and senior elder Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann describes deep listening as follows: [5]

"Dadirri is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness. Dadirri recognises the deep spring that is inside us. We call on it and it calls to us. This is the gift that Australia is thirsting for. It is something like what you call 'contemplation'.

"When I experience dadirri, I am made whole again. I can sit on the riverbank or walk through the trees; even if someone close to me has passed away, I can find my peace in this silent awareness. There is no need of words. A big part of dadirri is listening."

"In our Aboriginal way, we learnt to listen from our earliest days. We could not live good and useful lives unless we listened. This was the normal way for us to learn – not by asking questions. We learnt by watching and listening, waiting and then acting."

"My people are not threatened by silence. They are completely at home in it. They have lived for thousands of years with Nature's quietness. My people today, recognise and experience in this quietness, the great Life-Giving Spirit, the Father of us all."

Dadirri also means awareness of where you've come from, why you are here, where are you going now and where you belong. It can be used as a tool to quieten the mind as it teaches about "the quiet stillness and the waiting," according to Ungunmerr-Baumann.

"Our Aboriginal culture has taught us to be still and to wait. We do not try to hurry things up. We let them follow their natural course – like the seasons."

Dadirri is also used as a prayer, a prayer in the sense of you just feel the presence of the Great Creator.

— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann, Aboriginal writer [4]

Dr Laura Brearley, author of the Deep Listening Book, says "deep listening is about tuning in... Deep listening is based on stories, silences and the spaces that lie between. As a research methodology, the practice of deep listening is an invitation into culturally congruent ways of learning and knowing." [1]

It does wonders for a person to just be still and listen to someone else talk about their life and how they probably came through things. You never know what you'll learn.

— Archie Roach, Aboriginal singer and songwriter [6]

#Modern uses for deep listening

Deep listening is at the basis of some therapeutic methods used in counselling. [7]

Jennifer Thompson, founder of the Jenwakka Indigenous Counselling Service, describes deep listening as "tapping into her ancestors, constantly listening to spirits". "[Dadirri is] what non-Aboriginal people would call contemplation. It's the way we sit and take time and go in deep... The Dadirri is a way to take advantage of this [healing] knowledge. It requires people to stop, look, listen and learn." [7]

While the concepts of dadirri sound straight-forward and easy, the practice is harder than one might think.

Story: "I felt ashamed"

For dadirri to occur it doesn't need special arrangements, as this story from the 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy shows: [8]

"An Elder from north of Cairns, relayed [a message] to a small crowd of us through a mobile phone held to the microphone of the public address system. A rambling, sometimes emotionally incoherent story of his family's and his mob's suffering.

"I was getting more and more frustrated, urging him inwardly to 'get to the point mate, get to the point'.

"I looked around me. Rapt attention. Some tears. I felt ashamed at my whitefella impatience."

I think (Dadirri) is a sense of being in the moment, of being aware of everything that's in that moment and I just find that really hard to do.

— Kerry Drever, high school teacher [9]

#How you can experience dadirri

Deep listening is available to everyone. "Everybody has it," reveals Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann. "You have it. We all have it. It’s just that you haven’t been given the opportunity to discover it ... We can call on it and it calls to us. This is the gift that Australia is thirsting for." [10]

Exercise

Reserve a space regularly for about 5 minutes, in the morning or evening. Go outside if you can. Simply sit and look at and listen to the earth and environment that surrounds you.

Focus on something specific, such as a bird, a blade of grass, a clump of soil, cracked earth, a flower, bush or leaf, a cloud in the sky or a body of water, whatever you can see.

You can also let something find you, be it a leaf, the sound of a bird, the feel of the breeze, the light on a tree trunk. There's no need to try, just wait a while.

Be still and silent and listen.

Following this quiet time, there may be, on occasion, value in expressing in some way your experience of this quiet, still listening. You may wish to talk about the experience or journal, write poetry, draw, paint or sing. This needs to be held in balance - the key to dadirri is in simply being, rather than in outcomes and activity.

To experience dadirri first-hand, contact the Miriam Rose Foundation.

#Go deeper: "Listening may be the golden key"

"In genuine listening we listen not just for what's being said, but for what's not being said," says William Ury, cofounder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, and one of the world’s best-known and most influential experts on negotiation. Watch this highly interesting talk Ury gave at TEDx SanDiego, peppered with many stories (15 minutes).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saXfavo1OQo

https://www.scribd.com/document/368472589/Dadirri-Inner-Deep-Listening-M-R-Ungunmerr-Bauman-Refl

The Indigenous People of Australia have a depth of spirituality that can enrich our Non-Indigenous spirits in so many ways. One of these spiritual gifts is

Dadirri

. Take a littletime to reflectively read the following article and message from a remarkable, spirit -filled Aboriginal Woman from Daly River, Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann. Having graspeda sense of this rich Indigenous gift, consider using, in some way, the suggestions whichfollow the article.

Dadirri - A Reflection By Miriam - Rose Ungunmerr- Baumann

NGANGIKURUNGKURR

means 'Deep Water Sounds'.

Ngangikurungkurr

is the name ofmy tribe. The word can be broken up into three parts:

Ngangi

means word or sound,

Kuri

means water, and

kurr

means deep. So the name of my people means 'the Deep WaterSounds' or 'Sounds of the Deep'. This talk is about tapping into that deep spring that iswithin us.Many Australians understand that Aboriginal people have a special respect for Nature.The identity we have with the land is sacred and unique. Many people are beginning tounderstand this more. Also there are many Australians who appreciate that Aboriginalpeople have a very strong sense of community. All persons matter. All of us belong. Andthere are many more Australians now, who understand that we are a people whocelebrate together.What I want to talk about is another special quality of my people. I believe it is the mostimportant. It is our most unique gift. It is perhaps the greatest gift we can give to ourfellow Australians. In our language this quality is called

dadirri

. It is inner, deep listeningand quiet, still awareness.

Dadirri

recognises the deep spring that is inside us. We call on it and it calls to us. Thisis the gift that Australia is thirsting for. It is something like what you call "contemplation".When I experience

dadirri

, I am made whole again. I can sit on the riverbank or walkthrough the trees; even if someone close to me has passed away, I can find my peace inthis silent awareness. There is no need of words. A big part of

dadirri

is listening.Through the years, we have listened to our stories. They are told and sung, over andover, as the seasons go by. Today we still gather around the campfires and together we hear the sacred stories.

https://pashalyndi.life/2019/07/10/dadirri-deep-listening-a-poem/

Dadirri, deep listening, a poem

The second week in July is NAIDOC¹ week in Australia, celebrating the culture, history and achievement of indigenous people.

As a newcomer to Australia, I’m fascinated by this ancient yet still-surviving culture, and its place in modern day Australia. While I don’t understand so many of the intricacies and etiquette around Aboriginal culture, I feel a deep respect for their traditional ways and understanding of the land.

Listening deeply or nature-based meditation, is a daily practice for me, and it’s brought so much vitality and belonging into my life. I used to sit in my room, meditating. Now I get to walk outdoors, the breeze on my skin, the soft earth under my feet, the sound of burrawongs echoing, and still aware of my thoughts and emotions, the inner nature.

As well as helping me understand place better: which trees are around me? Which way is the wind blowing? Is the tide high or low right now?

I love trees, and have done ever since I was a child.

I can remember being five or six and running down the hill in our local park to a great chestnut tree, which had these big roots reaching out like many, many arms, and we’d climb on them, round and round the tree in circles, standing on these roots and holding onto its trunk.

In times when I felt sad, I would seek out an ancient oak, and sit beneath it, and feel comforted by its strong and loving presence.

My own ancestry is Celtic, and trees were at the centre of every aspect of traditional village life: as the gathering place, as a sacred sites for prayer, marriages and seasonal rites, as a source of food and medicine, and even the basis of language; in the ancient Ogham alphabet each symbol comes from a different tree.

A dear friend of mine said they feel awe and wonderment, in connecting with a tree. For me, I feel a burst of warmth in the heart.

How do you feel, when you stand and behold a tree?

To run your hand along its muscular trunk, or fondle its soft, green leaves?

It is said trees were the keepers of knowledge, and that it was amongst the sacred oak groves that the Druids first learned the truth of the world. In fact, the Irish words for oak and ‘druid’ have the same root, the word dour, meaning “door to the otherworld.”

Sometimes I enter a magical timelessness, when deeply connected to nature. A slowed-down, effortless way of being. Feels like the boundaries between me and tree disappear, then. There’s just a seeing and a breathing and a listening. Just one flow.

Here’s an extract from the poem Kakadu man, by Bill Neidje, a Kakadu elder:

I love it tree because e love me too.

E watching me same as you

Tree e working with your body, my body,

E working with us.

While you sleep e working.

Daylight, when you walking around e work too.

Folks and trees are deeply connected. Each breath is a gift from the trees, as Bill Neidje says, “Tree e working with your body, my body”.We literally exchange breath, receiving their excess oxygen and giving our excess carbon dioxide.

And on a relational level, as part of our family, we can feel and receive a lot of love from trees. If we’re open to that. As the poem says, “I love it tree because e love me too.” Have you ever felt seen and loved by certain trees?

There’s a River Tamarind near our place, cracks my heart open when I go there. It’s my refuge when I’m sad or stuck on something. Sitting with this tree, I feel loved and comforted. Sometimes a deep and moving insight has arisen, that’s really helped me.

Indigenous culture has a lot to teach us about our place and purpose in the world, listening deeply and living in harmony with the land and each other. Maybe like many of us, I want to see the voice of indigenous people well-represented and respected.

The indigenous mindfulness practice of dadirri comes from the Nauiyu Daly River area.

“Dadirri” means “deep listening” in the Ngan’gikurrunggurr languages from the Northern Territory. Practising dadirri you go into nature and listen deeply, to the land and to oneself, patiently and with “quiet, still awareness”.

Aunty Miriam Rose Ungunnmerr-Baumann wrote the Dadirri text, which she is clear is a gift to Australia. She says, of dadirri: “We call on the deep, and the deep calls on us, so we connect and feel that we belong still. And nature plays a part in your becoming a whole person.”

Many of us today have learned meditation or nature connection, from different schools, maybe through yoga or Buddhism or mindfulness classes or vision quest. But here is an unbroken lineage of deep listening, that has been passed down for generations and is intrinsically part of the way of life. We have a lot to learn from this.

More about dadirri:

Listening deeply is also something we can practise with ourselves, with our emotions.

If we listen to our emotions, and be patient with ourselves, gently asking what they want to tell us, what we need, we can honour our feelings, and live more in harmony with ourselves. We don’t have to fight with ourself or repress anything.

If we know how to listen deeply to our own emotions, we can be with another in this way too, and sit compassionately with their feelings, their truth.

Here’s a poem I wrote about listening to sadness:

Waking today with sadness,

I sat on the end of the bed,

So heavy,

And listened to the sadness.

Like a sack of stones around my heart,

So heavy,

“Dadirri,” they said, “Dadirri,” “Deep listening.”

So I listened deeply.

I listened, really listened,

A patient taking-in,

The gentle knowing and unspoken

Understanding of unhurried ears.

No need to fix or change, Just “Dadirri,”

Listening.

Sadness mostly silent, I felt to gently ask

“Sadness, dear, what do you want?” and “To be felt,” said Sadness.

So this listener held the space,

Smiling kindly,

While the body felt sad, so heavy.

In Dadirri, In listening and in letting be,

Two things emerged:

The feeling sadness, so heavy,

And around it, listening space,

Clear and kind and free. Not so heavy.

Deep listening,

“Dadirri,” they said, “Dadirri.”

And so I felt called

To listen to the listener.

Patiently… Quietly… Listening to the listener.

And there my mind grew still

And my heart grew soft.

Listening to the listening space,

“Dadirri.”

The more I research listening deeply, the more I find it part of many, many indigenous cultures. Listening in quiet still awareness is in us, in our bones, our DNA. Our ancestors, if not still now, were so deeply connected to the land. This way of being would be so familiar to them.

Maybe we get a taste of this when we go on holiday, you sit beside the ocean. We listen to the sound of the ocean. We feel our feet pressing into the soft sand, the cool water between our toes. We feel the heart rest. The sound of birds calling.

This way of being is in us, if we listen deeply.

https://leecouch.com/pages/dadirri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pahz_WBSSdA&t=5s

https://scienceandnonduality.com/article/dadirri-ancient-aboriginal-mindfulness-traditions/

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