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Tantra
is being buried alive in rich soil only to realize that you are the
root of the world, and that the warm brown decay is your nourishment.
Tantra is being swept away in the fierce current of a great river that
has overflown in banks, swollen with torrents of tears.
The term "Tantra" is a survivor of abuse. It has been
cruelly exploited. Tantra has been sold into slavery
and then auctioned back to itself. Countless times. But Tantra is
invincible. Its experience of its own nature is the very essence of
healing.
Tantra is a path of
self-immolation in the smokeless fire of radical transformation. Tantra
is the pain in pleasure and the pleasure in pain. Tantra is the wind; if
it does not thrill through something else it has no sense of itself,
ceaseless movement is its calm abidance.
Tantra is a sacred technology.
And like the many technological breakthroughs in medicine and computing
made in the course of space exploration, Tantra is a by-product of the
Great Goddess's engineering genius, just one of the many dazzling
technological breakthroughs made in the course of Her Self
Creation. The perfection of Tantra is
savored in utter loneliness just as deeply as in sublime communion. Yoga
and Tantra are the wings of a great bird. The bird cannot soar with
only one wing. Tantra revels in the
deep mysteries of gender in all its dazzling permutations.
From deep
inside the nature of suffering, Tantra opens a portal beyond. Tantra is
discovering that "you" are the dark blue flesh of space itself and that
all of red life is contained within "you."
This is the truth.
-- Richard Power
Excerpted from Wyrds of Power: New Language for A New Reality (2017). Originally published in Planetary Emergency, Personal Emergence: Path of An Evolutionary (2014).
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| Pool of Enchantment, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park. San Francisco, September 2015. |
