COMPASSION, FIERCE LOVE, INFURIATED AT INJUSTICE OR HARM TO MYSELF, MY MOTHER. SHE DID NOT FULLY KNOW ME, NOR HERSELF...SHE LOST THE SELF I KNEW, THE ONE WHO FOUGHT FOR HERSELF, WHO DEFENDED ME FIERCELY. SHE THEN AIMED TO TAKE ME DOWN WITH HER. SHE HAD A GLIMMER OF WHAT SHE WAS DOING. AND WAS COMING TO. THEN SHE LOST HERSELF. THANKS TO MEDICAL TREATMENTS. THANKS TO SHALLOW, TRUNCATED RELIGION THAT LEFT HER NO PLACE TO GROW WHEN SHE WAS WELL READY. AND AT LAST THE RE-ENTRY OF APRIL INTO HER LIFE FULL TIME. TO WHOM MOTHER DEDICATED HERSELF AS A SLAVE TO APRIL'S EGO, HER CHILDREN, HER SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKS FOR STRANGERS WHO SIMPLY USE, DISRESPECT, DISLIKE THEM BOTH ULTIMATELY.
[DRAFT]
society and religious mind still attempts to control or harness the
feminine. The female through who life comes. The female who protects and will kill for her young. There is fear and suspicion of the wild power that is inherent
in the feminine, in the natural state. "
Mark Whitwell, though some will disagree...
I HAD NOT GONE TO SOCIAL MEDIA CALLED FACEBOOK MUCH. IT'S STIFLING MOST OFTEN. AND FRIGHTENING IN STRANGE WAYS...
THE FOLLOWING IS DIRECTLY FROM A MARK WHITWELL FACEBOOK POST.
THERE ARE POINTS I DIFFER ON FROM, BASED UPON EXPERIENCES, MY OWN INSIGHTS, OR RESEARCH...
THIS SCARES PEOPLE. RIGHTLY SO, AS WOMEN STILL SEEM A???
Ancient
Tibet was a shamanic culture before Buddhism became its dominant
culture. The powers of nature were worshipped. Its entire cultural
history has been the meeting, confusion and integration of these two
great cultural expressions. In the early days there were bands of wild
women who had no regard for the culture and formality of the male
Buddhist idealists. There was an ancient stand off. Orthodoxy considered
the women to be uncouth, deranged and dangerous with their suspicious
practices and strange shamanic powers. Just as witches of Europe they
were deaminized[demonized] by society. But something happened in history. The great
yogi Padmasambhava who helped bring Buddhism from India to Tibet grew
fond of the wild feminine and a relationship of mutuality developed. It
was a relationship of cooperation, of mutual benefit to both. It was not
one controlling the other but autonomous beings in support of each
other. It was not like Padmasambhava was healing them from a superior
doctrinal point of view. Rather both found the advantage in each
equally, the powers of reality in each other’s company. To this day the
image of a couple in wild sexual embrace is spiritual iconography of
Tibet that has profound meaning and purpose. It is surprising that such
images are widely seen and have cultural importance and much respect. It
is known as Yab-Yum, which represents the primordial union of wisdom
and compassion. The male figure is usually linked to karuṇā, compassion,
and upaya, skillful means, while the female partner relates to prajñā,
insight. It is naïve to imagine that this is some kind of symbolism and
not about the actual practice of sexual intimacy of mutuality in which
these truths are found. And that an actual yoga of strength receiving,
inhalation exhalation is required to find and embody one's male female
qualities, to go beyond the social sexual dysfunctions society has
otherwise put in us.
It is weirdly strange that society and
religious mind still attempts to control or harness the feminine. There
is fear and suspicion of the wild power that is inherent in the
feminine, in the natural state. Rather than understanding the
obviousness that God or reality is found in life’s natural form, the
union and cooperation of both male and female power. Even in so called
Tantra or Yoga teachings this misogyny is present.
My friend,
birthing expert Crescence Krueger recently wrote on this subject from
her own experience. “What's become clear, as I've read through most of
Robert Svoboda’s Aghora series on Tantra is that his teacher sees the
role of the masculine as a "controller" of the feminine. He says Shiva
must control Shakti and he brings this into relations between men and
women. He is simply wrong. Shakti cannot be controlled, so the only
thing the masculine can do is to surrender to the feminine. Then Yoga
happens! Turning it around is the cause, of a deep misogyny that
distorts understanding of who we are, causing so much suffering in this
world.
You can become "intimate" with the feminine in the way much
of current Tantra promotes, but that doesn't in itself allow yoga to
take place either. Svoboda's teacher said, "You must catch Shakti by the
hair and drag Her to you." He's describing spiritual rape. Penetration
of the feminine is not Tantra, even when it is with the mind. What is
Tantra then? It is interpenetration and mutual receptivity. The Goddess
is autonomous; she is already the fusion of masculine and feminine,
consciousness and its movement; as we are. When two autonomous
individuals come into the vulnerability that allows them to receive each
other, love explodes. This is yoga. And this is the only constructive
form of relationship in yoga. Our pedagogical structures and
institutions create obstacles to the heart, in their effort to correct
or control things. We need each other in mutual exchange. The
enlightened teacher U.G. KRishnamurti was adamant that the mind must
immerse itself in the body, not control it (as much spiritual doctrine
insists) and I am just trying to find my own way to express that
verbally here: Shakti IS consciousness so she doesn't need the limited
consciousness that the mind encompasses. Its penetration of her is
irrelevant. She needs nothing. What the mind needs however is to
integrate into the vast intelligence of the body, Shakti, the
whole/hrid/heart. Healing and regeneration is the result. Enlightenment
too, if you want to use that word.”
