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- Title: Insights into kaupapa Māori: Wairuatanga
- Description: This video explores Wairuatanga.
- Video Duration: 5 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/772278941?h=a1513f574f
- Transcript: English There are many links to wairuatanga in everything we do. They are inseparable. Spirituality is in our karakia and our activities that pertain to food. Before we eat
English
There are many links to wairuatanga in everything we do. They are inseparable. Spirituality is in our karakia and our activities that pertain to food. Before we eat, we bless the food and we send the essence to the Almighty. Those are the circumstances if wairuatanga is part of our customs, the majority of our customs. If wairuatanga is absent then things won’t go well. That is what I am saying. It is not easily encapsulated by the word spirituality. It is not comprehensive enough in my opinion as an explanation of wairuatanga.
Wairuatanga is such an amazing thing to me. There are a number of reasons for this. So I understand my wairuatanga to be my connection to forces greater than I, my connection to the unseen world. You might want to use a word like spirituality as well. So my wairuatanga can be a way, can inform me. You know, I've heard and read that wairuatanga can be that feeling in your gut. It's your gut telling you; it's the intuition that's saying that person is kei te pai. Go and hang out, or maybe just slow down on that and just sit back and listen. So my wairuatanga is very important to me. And I engage with my wairuatanga in many ways. But ultimately, it's that unknown space. And it's the intuition I use that informs me on how to engage in a moment in time or with a person as well.
Wairuatanga is such a huge topic. For me personally, it is all around us, it is all around me. Just because it's not seen doesn't mean that it doesn't have an impact on our existence, or the way we carry ourselves, or the way we respond to particular contexts. So going back to thinking about wairua being all around us, that there are lots of forces that help mediate that as well, such as tapu and noa.
It is present within the aspects of mōteatea (ancient songs). It is present within mau rākau (art of weaponry). It is also utilised in aspects such as waka ama (traditional canoe). When you take children out on the ocean it is there you witness aspects that put everyone at ease with respect to paddling. But in kapa haka (performing arts), there are many things to be learnt through wairuatanga. Most pertain to incantations, the ancient karakia and mōteatea such as Pinepine te Kura which is seven minutes long. Those are the circumstances. Indeed, there's a lot of teaching in that, there’s a lot of feelings that come from that. And there's a story to that as well, and it's getting the kids to understand why it’s like that.
Te Reo Māori
He nui ngā honotanga o te wairuatanga ki wā tātou mahi katoa. Kāore e taea te wehewehe. Ko te wairuatanga kei roto i wā tātou karakia, kei roto i ngā mahi e pā ana ki te kai. I mua i te kainga i ngā kai kei te whakapai i ngā kai, ana ka tukuna te wairua ki te Runga Rawa. Koirā ngā āhuatanga, mehemea kei roto te wairuatanga i wā tātou tikanga, te nuinga o wā tātou tikanga Mehemea kāore i te wairua i roto i tērā, kāore e tae pai ngā āhuatanga. Koinā e kīia nei. Kāore e taea te āe ki te kupu spirituality Kāore tērā e whānui, tino whānui e pā ana ki ōku whakaaro mō wairuatanga.
He kaupapa tino whakahirahira tēnei, te wairuatanga ki ahau. He maha ngā take mō tēnei. Ko taku mōhio ki te wairuatanga ko taku hononga ki ngā mana nui ake i a au. Taku hononga ki te wāhi ngaro. Tērā pea ka tīkina e koe te kupu pēnei i te spirituality. Nā, ko te mahi o taku wairuatanga he huarahi whakamōhio i ahau. Kua rongo au, kua pānui hoki ko te wairuatanga he āhuatanga kei roto tonu i tō whatumanawa. Ko tō whatumanawa kei te tohutohu i a koe, otirā ko taua rongo ā-manawa e kī ana ki taua tangata, 'kei te pai haere i tō haere', kei te kī rānei, 'kāo taihoa, me noho, ka whakarongo.' Nō reira ko taku wairuatanga he mea tino nui ki ahau. Otirā he nui ngā huarahi e kuhu nei au ki taku wairuatanga. Engari i te mutunga iho ko taua wāhi ngaro. Ko te rongo ā-manawa e whakamōhio ana i ahau me pēhea te kuhu ki tētahi āhuatanga i tētahi wā, tētahi tangata rānei.
Tino nunui te kaupapa o te wairuatanga. Mōku ake, kei runga kei raro kei ngā tahataha. Ahakoa kāore e kitea atu, ehara i te mea kāore he pānga ki tō tātou oranga tā tātou kawe i a tātou rānei, te āhuatanga o te urupare ki ētahi momo horopaki rānei. Nā, ka hoki ki te whakaaro mō te wairua e karapoti ana i a tātou katoa, he nui ngā mana e āwhina ana i a tātou ki te whakatau wairua, pēnei i te tapu me te noa.
Ka taea i roto i ngā āhuatanga mō ngā mōteatea. Ka taea i roto i te mau rākau. Ka taea i roto i ngā āhuatanga pērā i te waka ama. Haria ngā tamariki i runga i te moana ka kite koe i te āhuatanga e pā ana ki tērā kia āta tau te katoa o ō hoe waka ka pai tō hoe. Mehemea kei te āhua raru ētahi ka raru ko koe. Engari, i roto i te kapa haka he nui ngā āhuatanga ka taea te ako i roto i te wairuatanga. Ko te nuinga e pā ana ki ngā karakia, ngā karakia o neherā me ngā mōteatea pēnei i a Pinepine te Kura e whitu miniti e haere ana. Koirā ngā āhuatanga. Engari he nui ngā akoranga i roto i tērā, he nui ngā wairua i puta i tēnā. otirā he pūrākau anō e pā ana ki tērā, ā, kia mārama ngā tamariki he aha i pērā ai.