Every moment, like a figure drawn in water, disappears as it appears. 

(Dzogchen saying)

Machig Labdron "The Mother of Chod"

 

Carl Jung wrote, "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." 

That sentiment is embodied in the Tibetan Buddhist practice called Chod, which amounts to "Face your demons, and cut through your reaction to them." Machig Labdron was an 11th-century yogini who systematized the practice. 

Hold Your Own

Kate Tempest is the bomb. The atomic bomb. She blows me away. 

There are Tantric Buddhist Chod elements to this poem, such as her encouragement to not resist the demons that we feel.  

Smells like New Age

Today I read a flyer for a workshop on sacred sexuality that made this claim:

"We can create an Infinite Orgasm whenever we choose---literally, not metaphorically---and actually resonate at the frequency of cell division."

When words flee the boundaries of meaning, they no longer queeko bar ne cha-cha-cha.

"The Tao is not human-hearted." Lao Tzu

 Photo of a nearly microscopic tardigrade (AKA water bear or moss piglet).

"Not human-hearted" means you can't shrink the Tao to your own limited view. 

Gautama was a Buddha, not a Buddhist.

 

Lyrics in search of a melody

FIRST VERSE

I was naked, I was helpless

As a newborn in Kentucky

I’m still naked, I’m still helpless

This disguise just makes me lucky

We act like we know something

But be honest, how much? How deep?

We act like we own something.

But what can we really keep?

REFRAIN

Not everything’s here to please us.

There’s enough to make you cry.

Even if you believe in Jesus

Gotta ask yourself, “Who am I?”

SECOND VERSE

Lotta lies to uncover

“You oughta do it our way”

One after the other

Found out, it’s all hearsay

My old heart sees clearly

Exactly what it’s made for

The view has cost me dearly

Ain’t no thing unpaid for

REFRAIN

Not everything’s rhyme and reason

There are birds that cannot fly

The faithful call it treason

But go ask yourself, “Who am I?”