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Obsidian Eagle's

Blasphemous Bazaar


META-Poems For A New Millennium

<br>META-Poems For A New Millennium<br><br>

The Flagship of Anti-Poetry — est. 2010





Nagual ItzQuauhtli Says...

"The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle, not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands, its height reaching to infinity. As the seer gazes on the blackness that the Eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightning, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagle's feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightning reveals the flapping, wind-creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightning the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.

The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagle's food.

The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things.  There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace, the human part of the Eagle is too insignificant to move the whole.

It is only from the Eagle's actions that a seer can tell what it wants. The Eagle, although it is not moved by the circumstances of any living thing, has granted a gift to each of those beings. In its own way and right, any one of them,  if it so desires, has the power to keep the flame of awareness, the power to disobey the summons to die and be consumed. Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and to go through it. It is evident to the seer who sees the opening, and to the creatures that go through it, that the Eagle has granted that gift in order to perpetuate awareness.

For the purpose of guiding living things to that opening, the Eagle created the Nagual. The Nagual is a double being to whom the rule has been revealed. Whether it be in the form of a human  being, an  animal, a  plant, or  anything  else  that  lives, the  Nagual  by  virtue  of  its doubleness is drawn to seek that hidden passageway."

~ from The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda





Nagual ItzQuauhtli Says...


One's Tonal is transient, fragile
Imperfect and limited
Interior character deciding exterior destiny


However, it can be tempered
Through directed Dreams
As well as all actions recapped


Dumbstruck by silent knowledge
Warriors topple their self-importance
Then master awareness with sober insight


Remember always that Death stalks us constantly
But beyond every Tonal thrives an enigmatic Nagual
Wrapped within layers of energetic abstraction


Many misnomers exist for such sublime states
But words matter
little when matters meet with BIG CRUNCH
Jettison rational thought and float ever aloof


Cultural language patterns constrain Spirit
So overthrow those foreign installations
Hear The Eagle's emanations expressed by Seeing's non-verbal voice


Cosmic Connotations

Cosmic Connotations


Wandering around the planets
One learns to revile all things vile.


Undertaken beneath broad wings
Fellow Querent, follow the wind's current.


This isn't the first sojourn along our journey
Nor final reflection of a mirage's projection.


Solar system lies wide open for stellar lights closing in
Hypervelocity stars, comets and quasars from afar.

Awoke to galactic dawn when Baktun 13 concluded
Surely such an Earthly vantage point won't disappoint.

Look to the firmament for even stronger indicators
That within this symbiotic universe, we are its co-creators!

What Tantra Actually Means

"The word Tantra is derived from the root tan (meaning, to spread or propagate) ...
The etymological interpretations point to the fact that Tantra was a general term for any system serving as the guiding principle of any work and that the use of the word in a strictly religious sense was a later growth. In the religious sense Tantra first came to mean 'the scripture by which knowledge is spread'. In the next stage it was defined as a class of texts 'which promulgates profound matters concerning Tattva (theory, which later came to mean 'pure knowledge') and Mantra (practical means, which later came to denote 'mystic sound')' and was therefore looked upon as a technical branch of spiritual knowledge. Thus Tantra came to mean the essentials of any religious system and, subsequently, special doctrines and rituals found only in certain forms of various religious systems."

~ N.N. Bhattacharyya; History of The Tantric Religion



What Tantra Actually Means


Nowadays the term Tantra has become synonymous with SEX.
Its original meanings have been perverted and obscured by Western commercialism
Because as everyone is acutely aware, sex sells
And the popularity of books like the Kama Sutra
Only makes matters worse
By misrepresenting ancient arts;
Reducing a once-sacred practice
Down to a series of dirty pictures.

Tantra is not so much a Religion in itself
As it is the basic substratum of many Religions.
These include: Sufism, Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Really though, it amounts to a way of approaching things.
Especially those things which are normally forbidden to us by mainstream religion.
Tantra defuses destructive energies 
Via the vehicle of one's creative drive.

A true Tantrika doesn't resist desire
But instead transmutes it skillfully as an expedient force!

There are five types of practice in traditional Tantra.
Briefly, these are:

  • Madya (partaking of ritual intoxicants)
  • Mudra (dancing and related gestures)
  • Maithuna (consecrated sexuality)
  • Mamsa (controlled consumption of meat)
  • Matsya (controlled consumption of fish) 
Image: Shri Yantra, the highest expression of Tantra.

Marine Metaphors

Marine Metaphors

Flare up passion!

Fry the fish
For they say that she
Is a sumptuous dish.

Taking after Gaia

Like sisters Gish
Wrestling with Triton
Oceania's deepest wish.

If any Cancer

Attempts to squish
Slick Pisceans stir
Wondrous waves, washing swish!


Desire Is KEY

Desire Is KEY


The only constant be change
But Desire is the key.
While surroundings rearrange
Inner landscapes remain free.


Follow crumbs of bliss
Into subconscious forest.
There the Pied Piper is
A respected concert flautist.


Urges within do dominate
Hedonistic hypocrites.
Yet intimacy was quite innate
Before any glam or glitz.


One sole instant is all it takes
To climax mid copulation.
As pleasure comes from carnal quakes
Bask in afterglow elation!


Echoes of Echoes (by Guest Writer Michael Napiorkowski)


Editor's Note: This is a prosaic response to Echoes of Emptiness.
Michael Napiorkowski practices Nichiren Buddhism and writes about it here: http://ichinensanzen.ca/


Echoes of Echoes


Form is Emptiness and Emptiness is Form can also be expressed within the framework of Cause and Effect; Cause IS Effect and Effect IS Cause. 
  
This is one of the profound expressions of the Lotus Sutra: the simultaneity of cause and effect or the co-arising, interdependent relationship of all phenomena being both cause and effect simultaneously in an ever present "now." 

This is equally expressed through the symbolism of the lotus flower blooming and producing its seeds at the same time (which is rare). 

The incredible part of this teaching is that although everything is an expression of "effect," concurrently everything is an initiation of "cause." This is what breaks the determinism trap by showing us that our lax and lazy concept of time as inert billiard balls bouncing off one another is not completely correct. Reality is far more complex than that. There's nothing that's isolated or complete in and of itself. 

Ideas of nouns, objects or things (completed effects) only exist within language. In reality these are simply concrete concepts for a transitory, provisional existence. All reality would be better described as a verb or even more correctly as Emptiness.

Hence the importance of Meditation...

Our tendency is to limit ourselves based on that incorrect understanding of nouns or of our own self-identity as an objective Being. If we approach our lives like this then we end up trapped within the cyclical manifestation of inner tendencies and outward actions (Karma). 

Meditation allows us to break our attachment to thoughts of a limited self-identity and conclusive opinions of reality as a collection of parts (nouns), and to see instead that everything is an ineffable process (verb) known as "now." 

Rigid identity is just an illusion that we trap ourselves in. By not identifying conclusively with nouns, we break the cycle of Samsara and see clearly that our actions within the world are defining characteristics of how we experience our actual "self". 

We're actually composed by those relationships we temporarily have with everything and everyone else, and vice versa. As such, all can be better understood as the open space between events or processes of interconnectedness. 

If we free ourselves from self-imposed tendencies then our actions will be naturally liberated, and in that sense our "identity" shall follow suit. 

Śūnyatā is thus the great non-identity to identify with - Svaha!

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