Original Story

dreamed and recorded by Christo Colocho


Monkey-Lion had a fearless heart and an agility that allowed him to escape the trouble he sometimes brought upon himself.

Many of the other animals accorded him deference and curried favor by appeasing his bodily desires. [different animals caress Monkey-Lion and worship his feet]

The ravenous Wolf, though, pursued Monkey-Lion with a dangerous appetite. Monkey-Lion taunted and mocked Wolf. Always, he remained just a step ahead of peril, entertained by the chase.

[Wolf's movements are lustful and violent. Monkey-Lion wants to be caught but is afraid of the consequences.]

Still, Monkey-Lion was discontented. His bravado got him out of many snares and he had yet eluded the wolf. But his mind was undisciplined and his pride created a wall between himself and others.
He sensed that there was some secret truth that remained unknown to him, some power he had not tasted. He went to Owl to seek guidance.

"Monkey-Lion, you live as in a trance. If your goal is ultimate freedom, you must break through the illusion that causes you to see boundaries between yourself and others. You are in essence no different from the wolf who pursues you. Each of you is just one aspect of something bigger. To discover the nature of your true being, you must make an offering. You must give up something of yourself."

The animals prepared for a ritual. Monkey-Lion's commitment to attaining his goal was strong, and he willingly submitted himself to being bound until the ceremony's completion. Wolf circled him with a lustful hunger.

[After the animals dance to increasingly fast drumming, they surround Monkey-Lion and strip him naked. Monkey-Lion is then tied with rope and lifted unto a sacrificial table while the animals move around him and begin to work him toward orgasm]

As the drums beat out a rhythm, the full spectrum of sensations filled Monkey-Lion's consciousness, from deepest pleasure... ...to cruelest pain.

[Wolf bites off Monkey-Lion's toe]

Monkey-Lion surrendered himself to intense waves of feeling. He did not resist Wolf.

When it was over, he awoke as from a deep sleep. Part of him was gone, but his playful spirit remained. Somehow this spirit, a larger self, no longer seemed limited to the container of his body. At the center of the endless dance of flight and pursuit, Monkey-Lion discovered an ancient stillness that had always been there, and was now finally unmasked for him. He sat down to savor it.
[As Monkey-Lion meditates in lotus position, camera pans over his feet and missing toe]

~Fin~