Pain And Its Cousins

Everybody's life is centred around the pain they feel..The topic of pain is so vast I could talk for hours on it.

Here's a poem of mine:
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"In this world...

Beautiful flowers want the rain to stop...

And wounds want more pain...

Beauty wants to feel ugly...

Life wants to die..."

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Pain transmuting into pleasure is something known to all of us....and it is a dangerous game that pulls a person deeper and deeper, to a level where the person does NOT want the pain to transmute into pleasure. He or she starts wanting PURE pain...along with its cousins...pure terror, pure violence, pure hell.

The person actually starts PRAYING for things like..'ONENESS with pain, fear, torture, endless suffering'.

My blog entry on the (non-existent) 'Devil' talks of this phenomenon briefly...check it out, its interesting.

Plan to write more on PAIN, soon.

Hyperlink: Devil and Hell.

My Artwork (Psychedelia Goddess)

Artwork entitled "Psychedelia Goddess"

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Welcome To Reality (My Poetry)

An old poem of mine, many years old.

"WELCOME TO REALITY"

In this world...

Beautiful flowers want the rain to stop...

And wounds want more pain...

Beauty wants to feel ugly...

And life wants to die.




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Ego Sex to Superconscious Sex

This blog entry is on a topic that not many are aware of. It is all about ego movements and how two egos can communicate in a manner that is genuine, full of love, and MAY lead to consciousness expansion that helps both egos evolve. i.e. "From ego-sex to superconscious-sex".

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of Naropa university, writes about the necessity of spiritual maturity, ripeness, and surrender in the student, before a teacher can give a consciousness expanding transmission to the student. He talks of not letting morality come in the way of emotions. Surrender means total surrender. The bible says 'Empty thy vessel...'

The purpose of this spiritual transmission is to transmit wakefulness to the student. Increase the student's awareness.

A certain ego dance has to happen before the student and the teacher reach positions in which an explosive spiritual-love transmission happens. A transmission of fierce, powerful, electrically charged, spiritually charged love from the teacher to the totally surrendered student, that not only expands the student's consciousness, but also the teacher's consciousness! The teacher is always desperate to give...the student should be hungry to receive and totally surrendered.

Here are Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's views on this matter. Wonderful stuff. From the book 'Journey without Goal':
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Wherever a student comes from, the student's attitude is very important. To receive transmission, a student should be humble and open but not wretched. Being humble in this case is being like a teacup. If we are pouring a cup of tea, the cup could be said to be humble. The cup has a sense of being in its own place. When we pour tea into a cup, the cup is at a lower level and the pot is at a higher level. This has nothing to do with spiritual trips, higher consciousness, lower consciousness or anything like that. We are talking pragmatically. If we are going to pour tea into a cup, the cup obviously should be lower than the pot. Otherwise we would be unable to pour anything it.

Water obviously has to flow down. It is very simple. Like a humble cup, the student should feel fertile and at the same time open. Because tea is going to be poured into this particular cup. The cup has a sense of open expectation. Why not? We are no longer wretched people who are not upto the level of receiving teaching. We are simply students who want to know, want to learn and receive instructions. Also one cup is not necessarily better or more valuable than another. It could be made out of many things---ordinary clay, porcelain, gold or silver---but it is still a cup as long as it can hold water or tea.

To be a proper cup, we should be free from spiritual materialism, thoroughly ripened and brought to spiritual maturity, so that transmission can take place. Then, in our basic being, we feel the quality of "cupness" ; we feel our whole existence thirsting to receive teaching. We are open to the teachings. That is the first step in transmission: Like the cup, we are on a certain level of experience that is not absolutely wretched or full of holes. We don't feel that we are deprived.

In fact, being a cup is an absolutely powerful thing: there is a sense of pride because our cup has such a strong quality of cupness. The teapot cannot help but fill it with knowledge or teachings. The teacher cannot wait to pour into us. We are seducing the teapot with our cupness: our pride, our self-existence, and our sanity. Two magnetic processes are taking place: the cup is magnetised by the teapot and the tea pot is equally magnetised by the cup. A love affair takes place; a fascination takes place.

Transmission means the extension of spiritual wakefulness from one person to someone else. Wakefulness is extended rather than transferred. The teacher, or the transmitter extends his inspiration rather than giving his experience away to somebody else and becoming an empty balloon. The teacher is generating wakefulness and inspiration constantly, without ever being depleted. So for the student, transmission is like being charged with electricity.

Transmission also requires the dynamic expression of the student's own emotions. As students, our aggression, our lust, and our stupidity are all included. According to vajrayna, everything we can think of, including the emotions, is workable. In fact, transmission cannot take place without emotions because they are part of the food of transmutation. And since they are also energetic and powerful, we do not want to exclude any of them. As long as we separate our philosophy and our concepts of morality from our emotions, there is no problem. This does not mean that we should be completely loose, seemingly free from philosophy, morality, and ethics, but that self-existing take place constantly. To receive transmission it is absolutely necessary to be an ordinary human being: confused, stupid, lustful and angry. Without those emotional qualities, we cannot receive transmission. They are absolutely necessary. I do not think this is a particularly difficult requirement to fulfil. Everybody seems to have a pretty juicy helping of them.

Our emotions are regarded as the wiring or electrical circuit that receives transmission. We could say that we have three wires---one for passion, one for aggression, and one naivete, ignorance or slothfulness. These three form a very busy electrical device that would like to receive transmission. We are hungry for it; we are dying for it. And on the other side, there is the electrical generator, which is somewhat smug, knowing that it is ready to transmit at any time.
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Labels: Tantric sex, tantra, mystical sex.

Human Selfishness & World Hunger

Akio Morita, one of the founders of Sony Corporation, writes briefly about world hunger in his book 'Made in Japan'.

He says that way back in the 1980s, he saw a genetically engineered plant that could produce thousands of tomatoes from ONE PLANT.

Then he wonders...WHERE is this technology? WHY is it not being used? WHY has it been hidden from the world?

Here is Akio Morita's brief biography, from the SONY USA website: SONY USA, AKIO MORITA.

World politicians keep talking about ending world hunger...but secretly they crush and suppress EVERY technology that can end world hunger.

Technology that can end world hunger VERY much exists, in my opinion. If scientists have made genetically modified plants than can produce thousands of tomatoes from one life cycle, it means they can do it with many many other foods and crops too.

But they don't want to share it with the world.

Because it is....'bad for business'.

All world problems are due to a quality that most humans have. Its called Brutal Selfishness.

George Michael, in his song 'Praying For Time' sings....'charity is a coat you wear, twice a year....'

Here is the video of 'Praying For Time'.