reprint of:Green Tara, Mary Mother of Jesus, Goddess of Mercy:Quan Yin, Earth Mother

 

 

I saw many of you reading this today and realized I should reprint it so more of you can read this too. I studied Cultural Anthropology at UCSC.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Green Tara, Mary Mother of Jesus, Goddess of Mercy:Quan Yin, Earth Mother

From strictly a cultural Anthropological perspective, Green Tara and the 21 Taras, Mary the mother of Jesus, The Goddess of mercy(Quan Yin) and Earth Mother (as well as a variety of Feminine Dieties in multiple religions all over earth all represent Divine Mother.

This is the most ancient and primal force in human civilization and before there were male dieties there were female earth mother carvings because without a fertile female representative the tribes all died out. So from a cultural anthropological point of view the concept of Divine Mother was about life itself and whether the tribe was fertile and survived and progressed or whether it went extinct and died out.

Male dieties had more to do with Warfare and Political control and came later in human evolution up through the complexities of change to modern day societies. However, I think it is very important that we still honor all the Earth mother fertility type of dieties because if humans can't reproduce (unless physical immortality is found) we will all be extinct within about 100 years of that moment.

Green Tara

Green Tara is a  Diety sort of like Mother Mary is to Christians only to Tibetan Buddhists.

To better understand who Green Tara is she is actually a combination of 21 Taras each of which has her own quality or form of protection.

For example, there is Ekajati, the Wrathful Grandmother who protects you like a powerful Grandmother would
There is White Tara which lengthens your life
There is Gold Tara which increases your wealth as well as all the others.

But, when you give the Tara Mantra and are also empowered to do it by an Empowered Tibetan Lama you are asking to be protected from the eight Great Terrors. Some of the terrors you are asking protection from are from: dying from burning to death, dying from drowning, dying from being poisoned to death and dying from being murdered.

There are four more that you are asking Tara to help you not die from which will lengthen your healthy life so you can do more good for yourselves, your families and for the whole human race and all life in the universe.

In a different cultural context it reminds me of the Hail Mary in the Catholic Religion. In fact, likely the most similar to Tibetan Buddhism is Catholicism which is why many Catholic Priests also practice Tibetan Buddhism because to Christians Buddhism is not a religion but a philosophy so there is no conflict for them because of this. And also 25% of all Buddhists on earth also believe in God and some of them are also Christians at the same time. Practicing Buddhism in it's own way is sort of like a Christian doing Hatha Yoga or using accupuncture or Accupressure as in Shiatsu or Jin Shin Jyitsu at least for Christians in the Western World. It greatly enhances and increases the quality of life of all who practice it both for themselves and everyone they know.

Compassion towards oneself and all others after all is the basis of all civilization on earth and always has been.

Green Tara, Mary Mother of Jesus, Goddess of Mercy:Quan Yin, Earth Mother

From strictly a cultural Anthropological perspective, Green Tara and the 21 Taras, Mary the mother of Jesus, The Goddess of mercy(Quan Yin) and Earth Mother (as well as a variety of Feminine Dieties in multiple religions all over earth all represent Divine Mother.

This is the most ancient and primal force in human civilization and before there were male dieties there were female earth mother carvings because without a fertile female representative the tribes all died out. So from a cultural anthropological point of view the concept of Divine Mother was about life itself and whether the tribe was fertile and survived and progressed or whether it went extinct and died out.

Male dieties had more to do with Warfare and Political control and came later in human evolution up through the complexities of change to modern day societies. However, I think it is very important that we still honor all the Earth mother fertility type of dieties because if humans can't reproduce (unless physical immortality is found) we will all be extinct within about 100 years of that moment.