Highland Valley Hogback Moon

Highland Valley Hog Back Moon

The Calm before Sunset

The grey-red-white of deep cloudlets appears on sky blue pallet

Birdsong of Longing and of Families Assembled

The Cool of the Day

Old Hindu women in colorful garb take an evening stroll

A moment of contemplation amidst the hectic frenzy of task

Soon enough to drift and fall away into daily death and dream

Tomorrow comes the Dawn

I remember a summer long ago

Awakened by a birdsong and I’m off to greet the sun

The morning dew and sunshine embracing at my feet

Hail the Mighty Ra

Who soars the heavens high

Hail Unto Thee who Art the Sun Boat Wheel Stations of Force and Fire

Above and Below

‘Tis the Time of High Summer and the High Pastures are Ripe with Forage

Diana and Her Nymphs lead the Dance of Sprites and Selene Rides the Sky

The soft hogback grass is inviting

Snapshot thoughts only seem to capture moments uncapturable

Goddess of the Chase, of Nature, and of Grace

Show us your glowing and tender Face

Let us bask in your beauty while we tend to our duty

May we dream rapture in worlds unrapturable

Words flow from me and yet words maim me in my delusion-tainted reality

Harsh and weary and Weary and harsh

I Wish I could Wander Beyond this Habit Land

Stubborn Old Dogs are We, Lamenting we Know not What

Old Age, Sickness, and Death lie ahead

For that is what Follows Birth

All Great Vibrant Life will Soon be the Past Plowed Under

Circle Cycle Rises and Falls and Gives and Takes

Phantasms of healing lovers and glorious banquets

Triumphant facades built up to hide the wild weeds, the staple seeds of samsara

The freshness of frustration baffles as a seemingly insurmountable maiden of struggle

But wait! It is OK to relax and wander off from the bitter battlefield game

May the living be joyous and not full of pain and fear

May they know bliss and be even of mind

Now I must go and hope I have not failed them for cycles ne’er sleep

May memory and vigilance be my companions evermore

Teachings of Menri Trizin

Teachings of Menri Trizin

Know history, Know relationships

Track lineages, broken and unbroken

Consider legend and alternate explanations

Tonpa Shenrab is Buddha of Body, Buddha Number Nine

Shakyamuni is Buddha of Speech

Three paths beckon:

Renunciation, Transformation, and Self-Liberation

Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

Who is meditating?

Who is searching for mind?

Unfindable yet Clear, Emptiness and Clarity inseparable

Notice this and Dwell in this Continuum

This is Innate Awareness, Rigpa, the Home of Undivided Mind

The mind of preference is divided, liking this and not liking that

This is judgment, which requires the scales of duality

Dwell without chasing the past and future

Thoughts need not be followed

Mindful Spontaneous Presence is open and boundless

Our habit hides our true nature

Compassion is the Center of Dharma

Spontaneous Compassion is Non-judgmental

There is no ego self to please or protect

There is only Other to bring to understanding

Therefore, Become a Buddha

Awaken the Heart of Compassion

Triads and Pentads of Health and Harmony of Being

Triads and Pentads of Health and Harmony of Being

Beyond illusions of the numberless, the universe, and contrast come those of multiplicity

Three or five components in variable proportions and in variable relationships

Three is the concise form

Five is the expanded form

The pentagram has five triangles

Two, three, and five are the first of the prime numbers

The Queen and the Priest

The three energy principles of matter range in subtlety from inert to active life

The three humors of the body are special combinations of the five elements

The three and the five flow as wheels with the seasons

The Circle of Fifths and the Five Tone Form inform music form and transfer

Three Gates and Five Wisdoms

Poisons Five and Three – expanded and concise

Perhaps the Triangle is Shorthand for the Pentagram

Pentagram Banishes as does the Triangle of the Art

Venus and Mars have their secrets as well

Diet, Exercise, and Sleep are the foundations of health that we can influence

Genetics and Karma are less readily amenable

Eat proper foods, in moderation, and in season and drink water and take correct herbs

Sleep enough and deeply in a dark room and rise from light sleep phase and take light

Workout playfully and mindfully and often paying attention to Chi and form

Discover your dominant dosha and plan accordingly

Explore your relationship with the elements and the afflicting emotions

Do the rites of feeding demons and consorting with them as allies

Aspire to realize the five enlightened awarenesses

Knowing that Mindfulness is the Key

Babalonanodos

Babalonanodos

Hail Ye Goddess of the Future
Guard us delicate mutant babes as we slither the narrow passages

Arms outstretched Ye arise to continually embrace destiny
Arise Chthonic from cracks in the Earth
Arise as golden rainbow sun beauty from the sea foam
Arise standing onto the backs of lions as victory and awe
Arise boundless and bondless from the chains of confused demonic cultural patterns
Ye bender of rules and stretcher of taboo mind
As woman unfettered arise even from the hearts of men
Arise as daughter, mother, and old lady – feisty and fiery and furiously fair

Dark Crescent Circle Crescent Dark
Symbiotic symmetrical symbolic simulations
The Sine Wave of Nature adorns our analytic minds
Above and Below, Reflection joins Reflection and there is Infinity
This is the pattern of Dance, of Motion, of Erotic Energy
Mating serpents encode our forms
Paths of Return and Liberation call her to arise

Pan and Pandora and Pan-Gaia bestow the gifts of Eros Medicine

In calm focus we rest in the satiation of past and future dissolved into Now

Vessel and Contents display endless interaction

Container and Contained Play

Such is Love and the Nature of all Rising and Falling

Wave Hello Wave Goodbye and let Motion marry Stillness

And the cartoon of contrast spins tales of Unfindable Clarity

Know This me loves

Integration of the Original and the Traditional

Integration of the Original and the Traditional

Be wise, Be bold

Skillfully blend the new and the old

Create, Uphold

Implicate Explicate, devour and unfold

The future is always unknown

The past is always gone

To wear the cloak of familiar pattern is a known road

The fashion dare and the comfort dare tread to the beyond

Lineages of discovery kept alive and remembered in various ways

Chasing of the Clever Now and Insightful Ideas Await

Catharsis and Healing takes many forms according to the many factors

Medicine Land has no boundaries

Pulled along By its Crook and Flailed Into its Shape

Upon it as a Tool we Look as we Dance at its Wake

Trademark Bindrune Dance and Rhythm of New Recognition

Drop the Dross, Align with the Harmony Law Wheel

Adapt to time and place and world pattern

Strands of then and now and tomorrow woven in braids of time

Crossroad Norns welcome all travelers and bid them glimpses

All around the Gnarled Old Tree the moist mossy earth scents the shadowy mirror

Days and Nights Come and Go and Lives and Species Unknown pass into obscurity

Time is Three and so too the Road

Go

Burning Summer Sun

Burning Summer Sun

Blinded By the Light and Scorched By the Heat

The Mighty Sun Devours its Prey by the Fire of its Rays

Waves of Flame Bring Thirst and the Weary seek Refuge in Tree and Shadow

Longing for the Illusions of Contrast and Definition we split the Brothers

   and call them Light and Shadow, Order and Chaos

Self seeks Refuge in Other in the Illusion of Love

Always Moving is Light and Shadow

Reference and Preference pull and push the weary minds of travelers

It is called the Suffering of Change – this constant adjustment to prevailing conditions

The Universe Goes and so too must we Adjust

Beyond this burning is the Blackness

Colorless Horizonless Continuity

Suffering is Illusion and Strangely Too so is Change

I wonder if this is true, Perhaps I will never know

We seek Perfection and Orderly Pattern while Abandoning the Petty and the Random

Effort reveals the need for Ease and the Balance of Each in the Quest for the Real

Adjustment

Perhaps we Navigate through a Narrow and Dangerous Gateland to Knowing of Not Two

Point and Counterpoint Contend in the Eternal Lust War of Duality

Our Folly is our Teacher Ever Revealing Our Wondrous Faults and Frivolous Fantasies

Our Envy and Belittlement are cause for celebration

Our Pride and Self-Importance are laughable as well

Seeking Even Mind in an Uneven Universe

Friendliness Compassion Joy and Equanimity

Four Doors to Infinite Palace Realm

In Theory and Practice do we wander through our weary lives

Surrounded by Strangers of Different Mind Type

We Praise this and Blame that and scan behind and ahead

While the Coach to Wisdom sits in plain view with fresh horses and no occupants

But our Anxiety Mind hides opportunity and we waste time in seeking happiness

This seeking is the source of woe and the exalted self is the source of fear

We are all Masters of Wisdom Exalted and United as Mindstream Goddessness

This writ of Concept that I word feign is False Wisdom

All we can hope for here is Concordance with the Ineffable

Puzzling Symbol Keys together finding the hope that pulls and the fear that pushes

The Seeker Knows Not

These runes are as probing tool, a recon mission into possibilities of meaning

Quite limited are words yet they can awaken and inspire

There is a Marsh in the Desert and a Desert amidst the Marsh

What seems far away is always close

Our Readiness for Transformation is Paramount

Remember that Whatever Appears is OK and that all situations offer possibilities

Consider those who can be aided

Six Nine Six

Six Nine Six

Six Nine Six

Honeycomb Cauldron 

Honeymoon Dew Honeydew Moon

Hive Mind Wonderings

Mystery migrates through time

The Cauldron of Transformation carries the elixir of future children

From the soma that opens mind doors

To the blood of gods slain and arisen

To the cocktail for the Lord and Lady of Lust

And on and on Aha Ananda

Sweet Honesty

Elixirs of Health Balance the Body Alchemical Womb Furnace

Geometrical Forms dance as stable molecular entities

Symbol Current Meaning Info Flow

Yin Yang Yin

Yang Yin Yang

Hexagram DNA

Chromosomal pairs and permutations of possibility

Chance and the Analytical Mind

Code and Seed Knowledge Awakened Pattern

Call the Simorgh to Heal the Earth

Weigh the Heart of Attentive Intention

Had Flame Pollen Lappers

Infinity, Sine Wave Snakes Mating Double Helix

A Structure to Join, Hearth Coven Hive

Nothing Better to do for a Lazy Restless Yogi

Satyagriha, the Force of Truth, for Truth is only a force, an energy that fluctuates

Janus-Faced Wave Particle Reality at Gates to Non-Dual Dwelling

Two Rivers flowing in opposite directions

Leap through the spinning swords to spirit realms and become Other

Destroyers of Illusions know space as wisdom

Hivetribe health and Sanity supported by the collectors and

   distributors of vitamin medicine and vitamin pleasure

Delicate Balance upheld with stealth and skill

Bend and Whirl mastering the Mind of Scales

Be adorned with Stillness in the Maelstrom of Animation

Dance the Masks of Paths

Reveal Serpent Journeys of Return

Knowledge and Influence of Deep Future and Mythic Species Mind

Game Boards Beyond

Questing Children Go along the Paths of Change

For Tomorrow and For All