Tekst van 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.
- SparoFebruary 2019Stem nu!
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