There is a truly notable blog by a daka named Randall, and he's representative of how brilliant and beautiful so many seekers are, out there, quietly on the tantric path. I'll quote a passage from one of his recent articles, so you can get a sense of the beauty of his writing. He states, "My mission is to support the continued emergence and full expression of the divine feminine on this planet. I do not hold myself as an expert in anything – only a willing, grounded resource. I am not credentialed in any specific therapy or work by any school or tradition – only my life. I am not interested in changing or fixing anyone – only facilitating personal awareness, choice, and freedom." This is from his article, "Loving the Inner Goddess Back into Wholeness"...
Some reflections became present for me a while ago while sitting in NYC – its insistent and alien pulse surrounding me like an invitation to some undefined, inner insurrection. Reflections having to do with the call for wholeness, integration. Not just the obvious reconciliations between god and goddess, masculine and feminine … but between the yin and yang aspects contained within the heart of the goddess herself, and its implications for the “other” reconciliations involved.
Yin reality: Quan Yin. I am a goddess of deep compassion.
Yang reality: Kali. I am a goddess of great power.
While different people have different habits of relating to this dance of power and compassion, many in this society find themselves caught in habits reflecting a fear or renunciation of the raw power of the goddess. So her “yin” aspects are consistently celebrated over her more “yang” aspects … and the god (both inner and outer masculine) is enlisted to displace, contain and control the true potency of the goddess’ natural yang expressions.
In external relating: I do not value/trust the goddess’ impulse to express power around others, so emphasize Quan Yin’s compassion for them.
In internal relating: I don’t value/trust the goddess’ impulse to express compassion for myself, so instead turn Kali’s power on myself.
The challenge: To open to boundless compassion for Self … so that I can then trust my own great feminine power and apply it fully in service to Life, unconditionally.
The tendency: Even once I see the challenge, I approach it like it’s a nut to crack, a problem to solve … enlisting the masculine to help “open the vaults” of power … but only upon the premise – the condition – that the goddess will ”be nice, do good.” This self-conscious restraint is the appropriate focus of neither a god nor a goddess, each of whose divine essence is unconditional and unapologetic.
The opportunity: To ask the inner god simply to hold safe space and shine the light of unconditional love and affirmation on the tender inner heart – the one that is crying out for compassion for Self. Not to offer something the goddess cannot provide for herself… but to prompt, remind, encourage, refresh the inward-focused connections that have atrophied with so much outward-focused attention and activity.
Even “inner work” has been held as “the means to an end” of serving others. So like a divine form of affirmative action, apply the god’s innate light to the work of redress, undoing the old patterns of command and control, protection and defense.
As the tender heart opens to its own compassion, to then go further, and ask the masculine to shine his light of unconditional love and affirmation into the goddess’ own divine mind, validating and celebrating her power to express differently within and without. Affirmation/ validation is the gift-in-service the god offers her divine mind – not in order to get something, but to awaken the divine resource for the very purpose of awakening divine resource.
The destructive capacity of feminine power is appropriately offered to all the structures, constructs, and constraints that no longer serve – the cages and jails I’ve constructed for various disowned or rejected aspects of myself. Without the fury of her destructive power, these structures will remain in place. And I will go on unintentionally punishing my own tender heart, not realizing that it is these impersonal structures that must change. There is nothing to fix, nothing to change in my true, intimate, deep-forest Self. Just the permission to authentically BE.
The goddess knows this. She seeks evidence that the masculine can remember, and come back into divine union with her. Once the experiences begin to recur, a “critical mass” of conviction is achieved that swiftly erodes habit, and constructs new templates of powerfully relating, expressing, and manifesting in the world.
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Editors Note: Randall reveals in his bio that he uses a pseudonym, because he's a daka who has a dayjob as a powerful business consultant. I urge him to come out of the Tantra closet, because I propose that his consultancy is really all about teaching tantra to companies.
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