Kali

Jean has posted a drawing of the Indian Goddess Kali. WIth the following quote:

"To meditate on the dark goddess, or to devote oneself to her, is to step out of the everyday world of predictable dharmic order and enter a world of reversals, opposites, and contrasts and in doing so to wake up to new possibilities and new frames of reference. In her differentness, strangeness, indeed, in her perverseness, Kali is the kind of figure who is capable of shaking one's comforting and naive assumptions about the world. In doing this she allows a clearer perception of how things really are." MantraOnNet.com

Though we've never been sure exactly how Kali, the martial art, is connected to Kali the Goddess, instinctively it seems like they would be.

And certainly, my experience in practicing Kali, is just like the quote above. When I think I start to know something, or get comfortable with what I'm able to do, I get smacked right out of it because there is no time to idle, no time to believe that what you know is THE thing, no time at all before you must open your mind and heart again and again and again. It's a humbling experience to no end.