Sex versus Meditation?

Sex vs. meditation, is it even a tie? Date the editors of Wisdom Quarterly (see below).

Sex feels great, we agree. "I try to have it seven times a week. I don't succeed, but it's worth a try." "Personally, I like to give it a rest on Sunday." "I'm not dating right now, so I have it all the time."

That's the kind of conversation overheard in the editing meeting at Wisdom Quarterly, especially since Margo arrived and Ashley became single. But we all agree, gavones notwithstanding, MEDITATION IS BETTER!

Before you scoff, before you laugh, it's true. Not all meditation. Wrong-meditation can be a drudge, a pain in the cushion, an hour of waterboarding. But when it starts going "right," when the bliss (piti) starts arising, nothing can compare.

It's like the difference between love and sex. If everyone were asked to vote -- and the teenage males' votes were deleted as outliers -- statistics would prove that people enjoyed meditation more. It lasts longer, it feels better (sensually), one feels better afterward, and one is better off for having done it (spiritually).

It's no contest. It's not a tie. Sex is tied with pizza, tied with getting rich, tied with laughter. But meditation is tied with freedom, accomplishment, and blissful fulfillment.

Who needs pornography when ordinary magazines affected by it reach the same effect nowadays? It's like when you want to get warm. Sex is like a work out. Meditation is like laying in the sun.

How many iPhone app users even know how to meditate? One is born knowing how to crunk out the Watusi. But meditation takes some doing. To live in the moment, to be here now, to actually get to what Eckhart Tolle is endlessly talking about -- nothing beats it.

Then if one attains something, that knocks it right out of the ballpark. Sex is a weak reflection of full body rapture, suffusing every pore like sudsy soap powder. Because it isn't easy to get it just right, people developed Tantra and other peripheral meditative practices. Great. But those, too, are only an approximation of happiness unknown by most human beings.

NEXT MONTH
We hope to have a fundraiser -- "Date Wisdom Quarterly." Winners with the best pictures and highest donations to our noble cause of bringing the Dharma to the world -- we've already unofficially exceeded a million hits, but we're stuck going by the green counter -- will date the editor of his or her choice. Who knows, the date could end with some meditation. We still have to put the idea through committee (advisors and Sangha). But it's either that or a PayPal donation button, and I don't think anyone is excited about that.

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