We started today, my partner and I, a duo meditation. One that we have done once before which is based on the kabahla tree of life. Last time we started from the bottom and worked our way up this time we're going from the top.
We're invoking the juggler to guide us thru 22 days of working the paths and symbols of the tree of life. The juggler weaves together the energies we encounter. The first symbol was that of the Fool, and I couldn't help equating both the fool and the juggler to the yoga student and the final enlightened yogini. The seeker is attempting to learn to juggle the energies, while the enlightened does it well at the same time as being a True Fool, one who learns wisdom through innocence and the purest and simplest truths. Which as the yoga sutras teaches are the hardest to find, but possible through concerted effort to calm and simplify the mind. We also had a true true fool in the room with us, our kitten who has the ultimate one-pointed mind who is completely focused on her task at hand (whatever that might be - usually what can i learn by playing with this random object which rolls). I have come to believe tonight that despite the claws and teeth she might be a good role model for meditation. She has a clear path in mind and is rarely distracted from it. She learns her wisdom through experience and observation, but rarely through listening (have yet to get her trained!) or study of texts.
The symbol we're using for the Fool is very similar to the sign found at Brimstone Head, Fogo Island and worth posting here. The Fool willingly steps, tho perhaps not blindly,, off the edge of the world and into the journey. Which is sort of how I feel about my journey through the yoga sutras, I'm not sure where it will take me but I trust it.
One other parrallel between these two meditations is a pagan part which we have at the start (it could be pagan it could be anything else too). We envision a hub with 8 spokes or directions, with a tree growing thru the middle. I immediately, this time, thought of the hub as citta, or consciousness and the 8 spokes as the 8 limbs of yoga.
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