i am in you, and you are in me...

namaste
en la kech
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because i am in you
and you are in me
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remembering this woman who i met briefly at a retreat several years back. she had this beautiful tattoo on her arm which looked like the tibetan goddess tara from afar, but as i stared closer, i saw it was beginning to look kinda like the buddha too, and then from another gaze something like la virgen. i ask her about the tattoo, a bit confused, but moreso, just curious, colorful and decorative and flowing as it was on her upper arm, and she smiled to say, "it's buddhalupe!" i paused for a moment, then laughed, realizing the fusion of images that had created her buddha-la virgen de guadalupe tattoo on her arm. gotta love that.
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the dharma is us
the dharma is fearless in confront suffering and contradiction
just as we have been fearless and courageous in claiming ourselves, our artfulness, our histories, our bodies, our memories
through displacement, colonization, racism, patriarchy, war...
the spirit we carry as third-world peoples on this land
is the same spirit of the dharma
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i am in you
and you are in me
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the praktisyoners of the dharma have always been peoplez of color
from india, to china, vietnam, thailand, tibet and now
with the awakening of the teachings in the west
kamala masters in the book dharma, color and culture reminds us
the dharma has always resided within peoplez of color
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iSANGHAmahal
we are remembering this
coming full circle
with ourselves
we are remembering the
way back home
and the way home
is this inward journey
we are taking to enter
the depth and spaciousness
of our lives-histories-memories-ancestries
r((((E)))volutionary are these movements within
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