From Old Wisdom to New Knowledge

As everything begins with birth, to youth hood, to adult hood and than into old age. There are twelve levels of knowledge just as there are twelve Holy People. In the teaching, it is said that there is one to twelve folds when making a traditional hair bun. This represents age one to twelve. Each fold is molded with the natural laws of the Holy People. These laws are beliefs and teachings of our performance all the time and every minute of our life. We don't make these laws. We are put on this earth to understand and respect the knowledge and wisdom of our beliefs and teachings. For this reason, it is very important to nurture and care for our youths' positive thinking and behavior during this fragile stage of age one to twelve. Every youth needs know the power of worth because this is how they understand their mental abilities and roles in life.

Today we have all kinds of youth problems: health, mental, social issues, and learning disabilities. These are only a few areas of some of the common problems. Often they seem small, but actually they are big problems. Adults can not figure out a way to solve these problems. Yet, they continue to label them - stupid, crazy, and mentally ill, etc. They build institutions to keep them there - they strip them of their pride, dignity, and power, etc.

In the teachings, it is said the Holy People made us as children. They placed certain types of control on our lives. We have needs and wants immediately after we are born. Those needs and wants are fulfill with teachings of good or bad. Many times the good teachings will turn bad. This is when the mind goes out of control. In order to harmonize this bad, a ceremony is performed to harmonize the mental and physical being. If the child continues to live with the bad, then the child's mental and physical being will continue to be out of control.

It will depend on how well we take care of our physical and mental being. As said, earlier when a girl reaches puberty, she is given a brush as her tool. The brush is for her to take care of her hair. The brush will wear down as the years go by just as her hair will thin out too. The hair will wear down from the center point from age twelve into old age.

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