the left hand path*
my wife seems to think
that if she lets me go off
completely on my own
i'd most likely go feral,
me lost down along the river,
in my storefront studio,
not bathing, sometimes,
for week or more,
letting the dishes pile up,
rarely brooming,
never vacuming,
a fair share of spiders
reaching from the corners
of the ceiling
out to wherever
their imaginations can ponder.
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the "left hand path"* is difficult
for strangers to fathom.
from the outside it looks like
a series of random mistakes,
swirling in no particular order,
tasty yet confusing.
from the inside tho it's
both better and worse,
stacks of minutes,
hours, days,
thrown on the studio floor
in no particular way,
in no particular order,
rising when the sun rises,
setting when the moon sets.
dougie sez:
no need to soar above the warp and woof here,
no need to sit alone and challenge the heavens.
there is a point at which
all this comes together,
a point at which the gardens
release their fragrances,
a point at which we are lost
and alone in the beauty.
this is all about the light inside the light.
please take note.
*vāmācāra is a sanskrit term meaning "left-handed attainment" and is synonymous with left-hand path or left-path (sanskrit: vāmamārga). it is used to describe a particular mode of worship or spiritual practice (sanskrit: sadhana) that is not only heterodox (sanskrit: nāstika) to standard vedic injunction, but extreme in comparison to prevailing cultural norms. these practices are often generally considered to be tantric in orientation.