Was hätte Buddha gelehrt, wenn er eine Frau gewesen wäre? Was, wenn unsere spirituelle Reise nicht nur eine lineare sein dürfte, sondern gleichfalls eine, die sich in Kreisen vollzieht, vielleicht sogar in Spiralen?! Eine Einsichtsreise, die auch mit einbeziehen darf, dass wir uns verloren fühlen dürfen!
Das weibliche Prinzip heisst auch Dunkelheit. Es ist das, was wir noch nicht kennen. Es geht da lang, wo wir abgekommen sind vom Pfad des Vertrauten.
Auf meinem YouTube-Kanal (ich freue mich immer sehr über neue Abonennt:innen 😉 kannst du dir einen Dharmavortrag anschauen, in dem ich das Thema weiter vertiefe.
Hier eine (nicht historische) Sutra, die von Rick Fields verfasst wurde und wunderbar zum Thema passt:
The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha
and the Goddess
by Rick Fields
Thus have I made up:
Once the Buddha was walking along the forest path
In the Oak Grove at Ojai, walking without arriving anywhere
Or having any thought of arriving or not arriving
And lotuses shining with the morning dew
Miraculously appeared under every step
Soft as silk beneath the toes of the Buddha.
When suddenly, out of the turquoise sky,
Dancing in front of his half shut inward looking eyes,
Shimmering like a rainbow or a spider’s web
Transparent as the dew on a lotus flower,
-The Goddess appeared quivering
Like a hummingbird in the air before him.
She, for she surely was a she
As the Buddha could clearly see
With his eye of discriminating awareness
Was mostly red in color
Though when the light shifted
She flashed like a rainbow.
She was naked except
For the usual flower ornaments
Goddesses wear
Her long blue hair was deep blue,
Her two eyes fathomless pits of space
And her third eye a bloodshot
Ring of fire.
The Buddha folded his hands together
And greeted the Goddess thus:
‘O Goddess, why are you blocking my path.
Before I saw you I was happily going nowhere.
Now I’m not sure where to go.”
“You can go around me,” said the Goddess,
Twirling on her heels like a bird darting away,
But just a little way away,
“Or you can come after me.
This is my forest too,
You can’t pretend I’m not here.”
With that the Buddha sat
Supple as a snake
Solid as a rock
Beneath a Bo tree that sprang
Full leaved to shade him.
“Perhaps we should have a chat,” he said.
“After years of arduous practice
At the time of the morning star
I penetrated reality, and now .. “
“Not so fast, Buddha.
I am reality.”
The earth stood still,
The oceans paused,
The wind listened
– a thousand arhats, bodhisattvas, & dakinis
Magically appeared to hear
What would happen in the conversation.
“I know I take my life in my hand,” said the Buddha
“But I am known as the Fearless One
– so here goes.”
And he & the Goddess
Without further words
Exchanged glances
Light rays like sunbeams
Shot forth
So bright that even
Sariputra, the All Seeing One,
Had to turn away.
And then they exchanged mind
And there was a great silence as vast as the universe
That contains everything
And then they exchanged bodies
And clothes
And the Buddha arose
As the Goddess
And the Goddess
Arose as the Buddha
And so on back & forth
For a hundred thousand kalpas.
If you meet the Buddha
You meet the Goddess,
If you meet the Goddess
You meet the Buddha.
Not only that. This:
The Buddha is the Goddess,
The Goddess is the Buddha.
And not only that. This:
The Buddha is emptiness
The Goddess is bliss.
And that is what
And what-not you are
It’s true.
So here comes the mantra of the Goddess & the Buddha,
the unsurpassed non-dual mantra.
Just to say this mantra, just to hear this mantra once, just to hear
one word of this mantra once makes everything the way it truly is: OK.
So here it is:
Earth-walker/sky-walker
Hey silent one, Hey great
talker
Not two/ not one
Not separate/ not apart
This is the
heart
Bliss is emptiness
Emptiness is bliss
Be your breath,
Ah
Smile, Hey, And relax, Ho
Remember: You can’t miss.
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