Mothers & Mothering
The lotus posture long has puzzled me. For I find nearly everyone when examined in this position to be in a very negative state.
“In Ladakh, boys and girls are encouraged to develop their nurturing instincts.”
Belovedness is the blessed state of Knowing you are beloved. Basically, by your mother – as she always yearned to give to you to Know.
In John Blofeld’s worshipful book "In Search of the Goddess of Compassion," he writes on Kuan Yin, Tara, Amida – but never mentions his own mother.
In the Hindu religion, Shakti (energy, power) is Divine Power personified as a feminine principle.
Kali: the Hindu black goddess; she of the black, horrible tongue. She wears a belt made of dismembered arms and a necklace of skulls. She wanders through cremation grounds, being the mistress of a world rushing uncontrollably toward death.
Holding the twig “just-so.” The Japanese is sono-mama which naturally I particularly like because of the mama.
I will believe, with Mencius, that my inherent nature is to love, as it is the inherent nature of water for it to flow downstream.
I remember back in 1960 attending a lecture by a visiting psychiatric dignitary, I believe it was E.J. Anthony. His subject was the children of schizophrenic mothers.