man and woman... a myth
once upon a time there was man and woman and they played passionately and fruitfully in the beautiful garden of yinyang intimacy… so fruitful was their play in the garden that what began as two quickly became multitudinous… and with that multitudinous expansion, it became necessary for man and woman to compete for resources… man being physically stronger than woman became the warrior and protected woman from the advancement of competitors… it wasn’t long before man believed woman depended on him for everything and man became very demanding of access to the garden of yinyang intimacy… man decided he should be able to have woman whenever and wherever he wanted… man abused woman… man enslaved woman in a multitude of ways… when woman wasn’t enough, man found surrogate woman to quench his insatiable desires… man tossed woman away whenever he got bored, or woman got too old, finding fresh young womanhood in her stead…
this went on for many, many years… until… one day… woman withdrew from yinyang intimacy altogether and left man bereft of the garden he had so deeply enjoyed and, as it turned out, needed… for a long time man wandered through the towns and cities of the world wondering what to do… he missed the yinyang garden of intimacy so much… man thought long and hard about his situation… no matter what he tried, woman would not bring the garden back to him…
one day man sat resting by a stream… exhausted from his wandering and thinking and very sad about his situation… a tiny bird came and whispered in his ear… “the yinyang joy you seek is within you”… man sat for a long time in quiet meditation on what the bird had whispered in his ear… the sun rose and set multiple times… clouds came and rains fell… man did not move… he sank deeper and deeper into himself… as he sat there in a deep dream state, the vision of a tiny seed lodged within his breast appeared… it was the seed of the divine feminine, and, he realized, it had always been there… he became infatuated with it and showered it with beautiful gifts of adornment… he watched with pure delight as it blossomed… and so, man became woman too… and found himself back in the beautiful yinyang garden of intimacy… he ceased coveting woman’s body… he ceased contemplating surrogate woman… he became all of that to himself… at which point, woman came to him and took his hand and they they returned to the yinyang garden of intimacy as partners forever after…