Goddess of Erotica -- for Beginners Only (1)

People like a good tale with heroes, villains and beautiful heroines
With adventure and magic, with delicious food and wine of the gods
With intoxicating music and dharma combat of awesome warriors
With love, and throughout it all a presence
Of something sacred.

“Beginners only” means to gain entry we must use Beginner’s Mind
If just for now, put aside all judging and assessing; be open-minded
For a moment let go thunking the way you see life
Is the way it is. Otherwise
We can’t even get to the second chapter.

Also as we approach the gate, we approach respectfully
Like approaching a holy goddess, like approaching a great scripture

We can start anywhere and call it the beginning
So here’s where we’re going to start: We're gonna jump in
Right in the midst of the Yosuf stories near the end of the first Scroll
(Genesis in the sacred Torah Veda sometimes called Old Testament).

Well, it is old, for sure. Put aside any past attitudes and views
About this scripture. Just come in with Beginner’s Mind

Also look at your palms. Are there any letter symbols there?
Five fingers each hand. Five opposite five. This is a code.
Keep it in mind

Intro: Yosuf has been sold into slavery by his envious brothers, all but Benjamin and Rubin. Yahudah was the ringleader. When Yakov their father hears that his son has been slain by a wild beast (envy) he begins to mourn in grief. His sons and daughters (their wives) rise to comfort him, but to no avail.

The perpetrators are shocked and repentant and begin the turning (t’shuvah). Among them is Yahudah who moves away from the family and sets up his own sheikdom. He marries and has three sons, two of whom die before his eyes and then his wife dies too. His daughter-in-law Tamar is sent back to her father’s house.

He goes to Timna to shear his sheep and as he passes Enaim (tr. “the opening eye,” which is an awakening mind) at the entrance of the way, he sees whom he believes to be a curvacious temple prostitute to whom, though her face is covered, he is irresistibly drawn.

He doesn’t know it’s his daughter-in-law, Tamar. He thnks it's the veiled goddess of erotica and fertility. He propositions her and promises to pay her with a kid from his flock. Tamar accepts Yahudah's signet, cord and staff as surety for his pledge.

They make love and conceive the Davidic lineage. Meanwhile, Yosuf has been sold and resold several times as a slave. He is purchased by the captain of the palace guard under Pharaoh in Egypt …

(2) Down into Egypt … more to kome … check it out …