Listen,
O brothers and sisters,
you who have mastered the teaching-
if you recognize me,
Queen of the Lake of Awareness,
who encompasses
both emptiness and form,
know that I live in the minds
of all beings who live.

Know that I live
in the body of the mind
and the field of the senses,
that the twelve kinds of matter
are only my bones and my skin.

We are not two,
yet you look for me outside;
when you find me within yourself,
your own naked mind,
that Single Awareness
will fill all worlds.

Then the joy of the One
will hold you like a lake-
its fish with gold-seeing eyes
will grow many and fat.

Hold to that knowledge and pleasure,
and the Creative will be your wings.
You will leap through the green meadows
of earthly appearance,
enter the sky-fields , and vanish.

Yeshe Tsogyel (757 – 817) was born a princess and helped establish Buddhism as the state religion in Tibet. 

You who want
knowledge,
seek the Oneness
within.

There you
will find
the clear mirror
already waiting.

Hadewijch II (13^th century) a Flemish Beguine about whom almost no facts are known. She wrote of God and her mystical experience of the divine in term so Love (minne) a word grammatically feminine.  

Two women mystics, one from Tibet, the other from western Europe, separated by centuries and religious traditions, yet both are expressing a similar experience of the Oneness of the Divine. Inside, outside, two sides of the coin of Oneness. The Seeker is the Sought. Inward-turning eyes encounter the Mirror. I particularly like Yeshe’s intriguing image, “Then the joy of the One will hold you like a lake- its fish with gold-seeing eyes will grow many and fat.” What does that mean – gold-seeing eyes?