Sarva Buddha Dakini Painting and Poem

Dance and the walls are around you.
Moonlight begins to fill your soul.
Dance and the walls move around you.
Leaves on trees fill the corners of vision.
Dance and the walls dissolve.
A fire starts to burn in your soul.
Dance and the world dances with you.
Colors swirl, emotions converge, unity ensues.

-Ed Tajchman

Sarva Buddha Dakinin, 36 x 53 inches, Ed Tajchman, acrylic on canvas, ©.
This is my version of this mythological figure that Joseph Campbell describes as, "A kind of fairy goddess of all the Buddhas". She drinks blood from the top of a skull. She holds a flaying knife in her left hand in which to dispatch her victims. She wears a kilt of carved human bones and necklace of human skulls. Kali the Hindu goddess is a similar figure. To dance with this goddess is to dance with death, one must be unafraid.