Wisdom of the Masters
Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Shamanic Traditions · b. 1950

Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Ngangikurrunggurr (Daly River, Australia) · Dadirri · deep listening

An elder who gave the world her people's ancient word for listening in silence – Dadirri.

The essence of the teaching: Wholeness comes through Dadirri – inner deep listening and quiet motionless presence. Not through questions and analysis, but through a simple being in harmony with the rhythms of the earth.

Shamanic Traditions → Silence 1 ep. in the corpus

Transmission

Miriam Rose says: my people learn not by asking questions, but by watching, listening, and waiting. Dadirri is listening not with the ears, but with the whole spirit – a state in which you hear the stories of the land and of your own soul without a single word. Power is born in stillness; strength comes from not hurrying. When you sit quietly with the land, it begins to know you just as you come to know it. And a person becomes whole not by denying their wounds, but by acknowledging the deep sorrow and the scars within – like a tree that survived the fire and put forth leaves again. Waiting here is not idle emptiness, but a respectful accord with the time of God and the laws of nature.

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