Sovereign Divinity, human need

swinging doors, swing both ways, in and out

you never know when the door will swing open

and you will come face-to-face with the Roshi in the threshold

in the black of the night, you heading to the bathroom

and he on his way to the kitchen for a scone

Black Mahākāla, as black as night, as black as Emptiness

as black as the dark womb of No-Thing, of Creation

Wrathful Protector, I die to you, we die together

to the bliss, your breath in my channels, stars in my eyes

the bridge is the sound, my song, my dance

slithering serpents around each other

the Roshi says, strip it down and just sit there

unmet human need, need to express, need to be heard and seen

need for containment, need for pleasure and nourishment

Motivation, the No-Motivation of Innocent Heart

what moves me forward?

wrathful deities arise from the brain and intellect

from the head center, which is the body

they arise directly from the organs

their intensely physical embodied energy, the most immense anger

that the Enlightened Mind could ever produce

free from aggression, is the most immense Compassion

priests and priestesses of the Temple hold my body while I die

tending with care to the earth elements while I’m gone

soothing, nourishing, I must have faith and trust in this

the Stone People, the body of the Mother herself

cradling the Earth elements of my body so it can rest

so I can return to her and inhabit myself fully and intimately

in every cell and corner and forgotten treasure

so slowly, I move

we gather as women, we invoke, we supplicate

we draw up the sacred Yoni

powerful, sovereign women, the Goddess is spot-on

the Medicine for all suffering is to cultivate the Nectar

we slither around each others‘ bodies, we breathe and tone

I immediately apprehend the essence of the teaching

of the transmission and apply it, move with it, let it inform me

in my own way, I own it. I embody it.

Liberation through Touch of the Lover

Liberation through Taste of the Nectar

Liberation through Hearing of the Song

Liberation through Sight of the Beloved Incarnate,

Divine Mirror

Liberation through Remembrance of the Union

cultivating the Sacred Neutral, Vesica Piscis, the sacred Yoni

that almond shape in the center of overlapping circles

Sacred Neutral, positive and negative poles reconciled

temple of Kom Ombo, Sacred Neutral in the center of dark and light

the hawk and the crocodile