this morning Florian and i talked about sleeping around.
slowly i recognized the similarities between chasing the perfect shag in my early twenties
and my current search for spiritual ecstasy.
both yearn for freedom from the mundane,
for a moment of forgetfulness.
their expectations are often based on representations
rather than direct experience.
they tempt me
into following strange people into strange places.
both tend to miss spirit
playing
hide and seek
with the mundane.
a lover's eyelashes dance with a shadow.
a hug restores what has been lost.
a tree breathes.
rather than forget
we remember.
11 comments:
I am so glad to find you here under my tree on Christmas morning. And people say there's no Santa Claus! :) A post to make me think, but oddly, a post to make me re-think, a friend just recently referring to someone as being spiritually promiscuous - it is indeed a small world - but I cannot remember which friend or the exact conversation. It will stay with me all day, this wondering, and will awaken me in the middle of the night with the answer.
These spiritual temptations pass, by the way, as you grow older, as you learn yourself from the inside out. Soon you laugh when they give you their phone #s, knowing you have all you need, knowing that tree in the front yard as it takes a breath is the truth, and all the truth you need.
Blessings on this holiday morning from a Texas compadre.
:) Debi
It is far easier to define the physical as the mundane....however....in separating of the two one removes one from its 'perfect' union with the other. The end result is like a marketing ploy...in that it alludes to the supposed 'higher nature' which is actually related to traditions of karmic retribution....which is....completely uncertifiable as there is no actual proof of our existence as 'individuals' beyond the current experience. karma is a simple state of action begats result.....not the human characteristic applied by anthropocentric ideas of guilt. One must remind oneself that 'guilt' is of human construct and a modality which purveys consensus so as to fund specific unities such as social behavior. Multiple relationships are merely expressions of our search among the many faceted aspects of our humanity....and their sexual expression works to heal the gaps created by social stereotyping.
I love the title of this post - it sounds like a great name for a musical act. :)
Again, you've given me something to chew on ... it never fails.
I will add to these musings the idea of a completed root-chakra in the 1st cycle of 7yrs of life/recognition/growth...which....if orchestrated by a culture which is all inclusive rather than partially exclusive....allows entry to the 2nd level of life/acceptance/growth in the reproductive experience of the sacral-chakra...especially if mediated by appropriately open interpretation, rather than closed idealistic control mechanisms based in fear traditions,.. a far wider perspective of the connection the soul/force/spirit has among all life forms. Anything less.....such as the closed-minded viewpoints of Victorian fundamentalism....which heavily influence modern western thinking, behavior, and laws.....do little to encourage a 'seeking out' of similarity in our human-experience and actually create and contribute to secularism by way of predjudice, harsh judgementalism, bigotry, survival selfishness, brutality, sexual obsessiveness etc, etc, etc,.
"Spiritual promiscuity" can be a positive way of expressing a need....... and an empowering idiom
to support.....the REALITY that every individual has to encounter many various aspects of "spiritual interpretation" and thereby certify the individual self by 'self' or suffer the probable effects of bombastic learning. Even the word 'spiritual' could be said to imply this when you 'see' its 2 word make-up of spirit and ritual. 'Spirit' stands for an all inclusive idealism and 'ritual' its process manifest.
Hele......"Haywire" is a song my sweet....I'll put it up for you this week.
BTW.check my post to your link...
The notion of spiritual promiscuity reminds me of a little Buddhist fable. It seems that a Christian woman who appreciated Buddhist meditation teachings approached a lama and asked him: "To become a Buddhist, do I have to give up being a Christian?" "Yes, you do," he replied. "But of course, you must also give up being a Buddhist."
Jarret..........I applaud you.
This is going to sound very vague.. but I think there is a difference between searching and discovering. Discovering is a matter of being available and conscious. The searching part never worked for me because I was so busy - searching - that I wouldn't find anything.
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big sigh of recognition..."their expectations are often based on representations
rather than direct experience.
they tempt me
into following strange people into strange places."
So familiar from times past...not my present as I'm currently dwelling in direct experience...mostly and hoping not to go "there" in the future...but who knows.
Great post, I've been stopping by hoping to catch a glimpse of your fascinating world view through your camera lens and gratefully feeling satisfied now that you have added new images with thought provoking prose!
Happy New Year!:)
i've been down that road before and i can honestly say that i see both sides of the coin. in a society that frowns upon promiscuity, i sometimes wonder "but is it so horrible to share ourselves with more than one person... if it's done with mutual respect" and on the flipside... why do we feel the need to? what is lacking? still sitting on the fence on this one but sending love your way and trusting that you will make the right decision for YOU (it's different for everyone). xx
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