Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 06:06:06 -0400
Subject: Re:


At 12:07 PM 6/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>reluctant dancing cyborgs
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>tell her the story of buddha
>radha's dance teacher told me
>she has to know how to cry
>in the final scene, as little rahul comforting his mother
>when sidhartha steals away in the dead of the night
>renunciating his kshathriya dharma
>


but why does this dance teacher assume the mother will cry?

did she not speak to him even as he was in her womb
teaching him lessons of non-violence
and
asking him to find ways 
not
to war
did she not subversively bring him up
feed him
food for thought and behaviour that a 
manly
masculine
warrior
kshatriya's
dharma does not encourage?

no no no

your daughter radha is right 
in not weeping

for as her grandmother radha
her grandmother lakshmi

her grandmother durga

and her great-grandmother 
sathya and sita know

as does her mother

siddhartha's mother would not shed a tear
as she watches him leave


on his solitary road to nirvana
for this is what indeed she had spent many a lullaby
meditating on....

go siddharta go

live your own life 
but to find a better one for the
many of the world

in your male body
take with you my teachings
and
my thoughts
and
my emotions

transform them into something my generation cannot do
male or fe-
male

go forth siddharth
into a battlefield
that
refuses to shed 
blood....


>but radha doesnt need telling

>her little face is solemn

>while sidhartha became buddha
>what happened to yashodara
>

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>          looking through the eyes of 

your daughter radha in her dancing
>class...
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