How does talking about this weekend’s New Moon go into talking about androgynous quality? I guess I come from a country where male actors play women (both genders) and female actors play men ( both genders), Kabuki and Takara-zuka, respectively… so I don’t really freak out when someone exhibits that quality – in my mind, it’s just aesthetics and a theatrical play – a diff. of one chromosome x vs. y… While interesting to explore, I don’t want to get too caught up in defining how women should feel this way – the feminine, and men should feel another way, the masculine – with Left (ida) or Right (pingala) dominance, etc.- we are just human; Human beings (as Jon Kabat-Zinn would say, Human “Beings” not Human “Doings” – touche!) and maybe that’s why this poem by Hafiz strums a chord with me:
How Does it Feel to Be a Heart?
Once a young woman said to me,
“How does it feel to be a man?”And I replied, “My dear, I am not so sure.”
Then she said, “Well, aren’t you a man?”And this time I responded, “I view gender as
a beautiful animal that people often take
for a walk on a leash and might enter into
some odd contest…
in hopes of winning a strange price.”My dear, a better question for Hafiz
would have been,“How does it feel to be a heart?”
For all I know is love,
and I now find my heart, infinite, and everywhere.*** Soooo beautiful…