{"id":4084,"date":"2014-07-27T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2014-08-03T09:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T16:58:11","slug":"4084","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/4084\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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:<\/p>\n

\n

How Does it Feel to Be a Heart?<\/p>\n

Once a young woman said to me,
\n“How does it feel to be a man?”<\/p>\n

And I replied, “My dear, I am not so sure.”
\nThen she said, “Well, aren’t you a man?”<\/p>\n

And this time I responded, “I view gender as
\na beautiful animal that people often take
\nfor a walk on a leash and might enter into
\nsome odd contest…
\nin hopes of winning a strange price.”<\/p>\n

My dear, a better question for Hafiz
\n would have been, <\/p>\n

“How does it feel to be a heart?”<\/p>\n

For all I know is love,
\nand I now find my heart, infinite, and everywhere.<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

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*** Soooo beautiful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4179,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}