07/04/2023
Green Tara is a role model, to become a wise woman, and live in an ecofeminist way. Many of us who are women have a hard time finding women we can take as role models. This one has helped me transform my life. In one way, Green Tara is just an image; yet her image is designed so that when I work with her, I develop the wise love she embodies.
For any chance of surviving the climate emergency, we need to build a regenerative way of life, based on the patterns of nature’s life-supporting ecosystems. It’s peaceful, cooperative, egalitarian, and in harmony with nature. Tara embodies this culture shift, in how we understand what life is for, what brings us happiness, how to live interconnected with all creatures, how to live as a community. When I lived in a permaculture ecovillage, Green Tara seemed to me our patron goddess, and patroness of activists.
When we imagine ourselves as Tara, we practise what it feels like to be in a state of awakened compassion. Her body is made of green light, the light of compassionate skillful action. I infuse my body with her light, and explore all through my body what it feels like. Meditating is a bodily process. Being in my body as her, so the green light’s all over my body and helps me feel like her. My woman’s body can identify with Tara.
Tara’s life-affirming path teaches us not to withdraw from the world to find our spirituality, but to experience ‘ordinary’ life as full of magic and mystery. This is a woman’s way. We live our spiritual life around children, in our work in the world; in our relationships with people and nature.
https://www.permaculturewomen.com/
