the Unveiler of Your Holiness

What would be your response if you found a treasure you could claim as your own? Claim yourself everyday like that! Your holiness! For you are a sacred shrine.

—Tara

In a lot of depictions of Tara she is shown dressed for— way beyond Sunday school. She lets you know right off the bat, she can up the ante on your life. It looks like she might of just rolled out from some cosmic meadow or bed, and has a regal smile of knowing something about wild divine love—and about all existence. A smile that says: You can join me!

She can look like the source from where all rock-n-roll began and returns. Tara is the keeper and bestower of wondrous secrets, especially for women. Her name can mean liberator, guardian, empowerment. She could be a patron saint of any woman with a tattoo or great spirit. And she should be considered a trusted god, a deity, of the LGBT community— as well as of all beings. 

With these three below Inner Bumper Stickers, (the first in a whole series we have in mind), one can get a glimpse of her depth, wonderful utility, and party outfit— which speaks of freedom. 

I have a blog entry a couple back from this one, titled: Inner Bumper Stickers & the Quantum Leap— which could fill ya in more on an IBS if you don’t know what that is. Also, on one of these 3 decals, some favorite lines of Hafiz seemed to work well, so added those in.

Tara is really closer to a magical being, or a deity like Shiva or Ganesh. (Though such a being could surely be empowered by God or some great Bodhisattva, and be tremendously affecting). 

Tibetan mythology goes as far as to say that: Tara originated from the tears of the Buddhist god Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, out of his compassion for the world. A compassion she came to personify for every creature! 

The Tara scholar and museum curator, Dr. Vishi Upadhyay, says: “Tara was a female divinity prominently conceived during the 7th-12th century in India.”

Though, there are definite signs of Tara in Mahayana Buddhism dating back to the 1st to the 4th centuries A.D.

Tara is regarded as a Savior, and is accepted by millions as being the primal protecting and empowering female force in the Universe. The Mother of all forms. 

An upcoming book, and hopeful series, my agent, Melissa, and I plan to do, will be titled: Tara The Female Buddha, the Unveiler of Your Holiness. We will have a great range of quotes attributed to Tara in that she is a wonderful myth, but a myth that could have become as real as you or I, or even more so (and seems to have). 

I like these quotes that we will pair with some wonderful paintings and depictions of her, and annotate at times:

All forms have come from my womb,

and are still attached by a holy golden

invisible umbilical cord that feeds

existence.

Your heart beat is because of mine. I 

know your every thought and feeling. 

And I am so in debt to you for any tear

my world caused.

***

I see only your perfect innocence, that 

you too will come to know.

***

I am the Alchemy Stone that any world

that ever came into existence touched.

Touch me, my dear. Empower yourself

that way. 

***

Tell me what you would most like to hear

the sun and moon sing to you, then just 

lean close.

***

Look at your soul in my eyes. 

***

What bird does not need two wings to fly?

I can be one for you. Together then, we

can devour Heaven.

*** 

There is nothing to touch but my body. 

It being everything!

***

The mountains are perched on a limb

we hold.

***

Not able to bear your absence, I am

always near.

***

There is a very fine article here, about Tara titled: “Tara: Goddess of Enlightenment, Wisdom and Empathy.”

I love this image of Tara being God and/or Buddha—after hours in a bar.

What real cowgirl or real cowboy wouldn’t want to be there and come to know: the mountains are perched on a limb we hold.

To close, I want to say that, I think some of the wonderful utility in the best of my life's work with Hafiz & Rumi, is that you get to sit with the Beloved after hours in the bar, and get served some rare wine & whisky— love— and clink glasses with God and taste & toast your own holiness to such an extent, that you can live it more— and become so free.