07/10/2025
*The Way of Story - Power v/s Love*
A quote for current times . . .
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Zen Buddhism is the study of the Self - of Love and Power. Zen is Love in its formed expression and in its unformed potential. And Zen is Power - to form and dissolve. Zen pe*****tes all barriers to the source of creativity and the power to manifest. Likewise, indigenous Shamanism heals the Self. Of Love and Power. It too is Love and Power. Shamanic Zen is what we teach here at Born as the Earth Zen Academy. We use Dr. King’s quote to guide our facilitators, our apprentices and students so we don’t become reckless and abusive or sentimental and anemic.
We will use this quote from Dr. King throughout the upcoming CREATIVE Stone Module (see below) and become intimate with its deep meaning. We will examine and see for ourselves that war & all conflict, distress & oppression, separation & privilege, and unity & diversity are outcomes rooted in our capacity for creativity.
Creativity is who we in essence are. We have been endowed by our Creator with an inalienable ability to create. “All conflict - within yourself, within family constellations, between ideologies or nations, is a measure of the lack of creativity,” Elder Austin Moore once wrote to the United States Congress before the Second Gulf War.
Creation is a form of expression. Expression occurs through the way in which we communicate through dance, song, a brush stroke on a blank canvas, a heated disagreement, the way we walk, or the way we shape what constellates our identity. All expression depends on power - the power needed to walk. To talk. To laugh or grieve. Whether verbal or non-verbal, Creation creates through us an expression of ourselves, and it requires power to move it from imagination into manifestation. Power is required to dream. Like Dr. King’s “I have a dream…” energy is converted into a visual of potential possibility.
Love too is a form of expression. Love attracts and connects, it shares and communicates, it bonds and makes us whole. Love dissolves the barriers that separate. It re-pairs for Love is intimacy and vulnerability. In its whole-making, it opens to include and embrace Otherness. And Love humble’s in order for its medicine to be received. Love invites something powerful into our lives.
Power, on the other hand, makes love visible — in what we think, feel, express, create and do. Memory is a form of power. Memory fuels our propulsion into the future through its reconfiguration into imagination.
Stones (minerals) are the storage containers for power - coal, uranium, etc.. Stones store memory in the geological records of the story of landscapes. They archive powerful algorithms, data, or narratives in the silica in silicon chips, the granite of monuments & gravestones.
With Zen, Indigenous Teachings and working intimately with the wisdom of the Stone Element, BEZA supports you in unlocking your Power to make Love visible in all you express and create.
*BEZA’s Advanced Gatekeeper Apprentice Training*
*Creative Stone Module - The Way of Story*
*23 October - 7 December 2025*
Working closely with the wisdom of the Stone Element, BEZA supports you in unlocking your Inner Wisdom with Zen and Indigenous Teachings.
Learn how to effectively communicate – teach, lead and create the systems necessary to connect with others.
Express your life’s purpose and build supportive networks. Work with communication; power structures; manifestation; motivation, goals and quests; and story keeping.
This online training is for those who are eager and committed to uncovering their truth and giving the gift of their powerful expression.
We invite you to join our Creative Stone Apprentice Training to remember who you are in your bones - to know your purpose and to work with the Stone Element of the Medicine Wheel to learn how to express yourself, to explore power structures, manifestation, goals, quests and story keeping.
Join us:
👉🏽Apply here: https://bornastheearth.com/apprentice-gatekeeper-training-application-form/
👉🏽Read more: https://bornastheearth.com/apprentice-training/
*Registrations close 19th October*
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