Green Tara - Swift Liberator

The title of this video is that of the pre-Buddhist Goddess and Bodhisattva known to the Tibetan people as Drolma and throughout the world as Green Tara.

This is mythopoetic journey into the archetypal imagery of the flag of independent Tibet.

The soundtrack features the mantra of Green Tara - the personification of active compassion and all enlightened activity :

aum tare tuttare ture svaha

The central image is that of the snow-capped pyramid peak of Mount Kailash which is revered as the World Mountain and the Axis Mundi in the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and indigenous Bon-Po traditions.

This has been created as a focus for visualization and devotional meditation using the techniques of Tantric Buddhist teaching.

Mt. Kailash, like Delphi in Greece and Tara in Ireland and Uluru in Australia, represents the mythic World Mountain, the Axis Mundi - a natural kinetic archetype that represents the centre of all movement and which provides a connection and a means of moving and communication between the Three Worlds : the sky, the earth and the paradisal underworld - a concept that stretches right back to the cosmology of ancient shamanic totemism.

The Navajo term for this mythic Navel of the World is
"The Mountain Around Which All Moving is Done".

The Navajo were always skilled codetalkers and their magic is the dynamic of the spoken word.

Consider for one moment how the ceremonial sand-paintings of the Navajo are mirrored in the sand mandalas of Tibetan ritual practice.

They are the temporary focus of energies which are dispersed to the Four Winds once their work is completed and the moment has passed.

When we begin to retrace our roots we discover that we are still one people living on one planet and that we can rediscover the deep language of collective consciousness which is beyond words and finds it clearest expression in multi-layered poetic imagery.

The audio track is that of the invocation of Tara by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.

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