Ispravci

Poruka od Sparo - English

  • The trap

  • Seeking sex alone leads to spiritual bankruptcy.
  • It’s a curse indeed that we were handed down this reptilian brain, forever dragging us through the mud with its carnal and lowly desires.
  • The orgasm is a trap that nature devised, without it I suspect no one would ever venture into such a costly affair.
    • Sex is a foolish investment of energy, emotionally and physically draining while its reward only lasts a few seconds.
  • Its nature’s way to perpetuate itself and keep the wheel of life spinning.
    • Yet despite being aware of all this the primitive brain that we have keeps pumping its dopamine-fueled lust into our bloodstream, bringing us lower to the realm of baser animals.
    • Perhaps this is why religions knew that it was so important to monopolize sex and make it a domain that is feared and sinful.
    • Monks renounced sex entirely and it lead to all manners of perversions.
    • Hedonists, Epicureans and self-indulged enjoyment seekers drowned themselves in bodily pleasures that it made their lives meaningless.
    • So what to do, then?
  • How can we reconcile the soul and the body?
    • How can we link the animal with the divine?
  • Continuing to fall deeper in the bottomless pit of seeking sexual pleasure only makes us less and less enlightened.
  • Yet it is virtually impossible to deny the body its whims.
    • Not everybody can become a Buddha.
  • That is why the need arises to bridge both extremes and that bridge is love.
  • Love is link between the eternal soul and the temporary decaying body.
  • Instead of lowering ourselves to sex we need to lift it upwards instead.
  • We need to transform it into a meditative art. Use it. Lift it.
  • Give it wings until it starts to look more like a prayer.
  • More like a pilgrimage towards the Mecca inside the body.
  • The soul inside the temple.
    • Ascend above the animalistic view of things and transform the lowest to the highest.
  • Plant a seed in the mud and watch a lotus grow out of it.

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