Yantra (for Kim Chi)

Filled with the power of meaning
with the plenitude of rejection, of withdrawal
the stiff serpent riddled with sounds

Stretched out, vertical
simultaneously outside and inside at the four points of the compass
withdrawn
yet in the Infinite
Universal self at all points reconjugated

Allied to the subterranean, to darkness
exactly where the dark force charges forward with furor
mouth to mouth the noble and ignoble
Unperturbed
unpenetrated
at the center of the axial space
away from the tormentresses

Descent into the forbidden zone

Eliminated the now, the accidental
the dust of the existential
eliminated, attachment
blind to otherness
invested with grandeur

with silence
with immateriality
with the murky vagueness of the dark powers

Faceless force
Matrix of forms and rampart against forms
In space a faceless eye is watching
with an unchanging stare
without budging, without eyelid
without tiring

Call to order
Call to return
Call to abolish

Triangles
insignificant, infinitely signifying
emotionless, accentless
nothing distinguishes them
thin triangles upside down
crossing equal triangles rightside up
revealing to the initiate their whispering secret.

Spots, lines, here, there
impenetrable figures
Speak of beginnings, of engagements
out at the furthest stars perhaps.

Support of the meditator
at the center a point
only a point
fulfilling the need of all needs
the need for essence

for the essence of essences
in the center a point
recalling, without betraying.

Hub of arrivals
Compass of the Spirit
Circles of the ubiquitous male-female conjunction
Labyrinths:
slipping into them
imperious flagstaffs of the alphabet of the gods' own language go winding

Principle without speech,
Principle of all principles
Return to the Principle
referring us to a level beyond
always on the vibration of the Unique
tuned to everything in depth
in intimate conjunction
embracing,
in efforts to embrace, wider and still wider

The cloud of being condences
contracts
Universe-Cosmos
cosmos of the universe of the "self"

Material reality, fat, heavy, peasant
but bound by a thread
to endlessness, and the strangeness binds it by a thread
thread roping down
emptiness itself is bound to it
totality bound to it
time and space undivided bound to it
and the original Egg floating on the waves of Formlessness is bound to it

creation and dissolution
and innerness is bound to it
and the diamond bound to its own meditation

Knowledge. Knowledge participating
Immensifying illumination in which everything goes into resonance with everything
contemplated. United

Geometry beyond geometries,
Lines, like slowed-down radiations,
insistent, clairvoyant
loaded with magic
Design for returning to the absolute
Destiny-design

--Henri Michaux(trs. David Ball)