Alan Watts, "Democracy in the Kingdom, Part II," Roy of Hollywood Tuckman (Something's Happening Sunday mornings, 8:00 am, 8/9/20, KPFK Archive; Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
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What is Nirvana? The closest thing in Christianity and Judaism and Islam, the Abrahamic faiths (rooted in Sumerian religion), might be GOD.
Not God (Maha Brahma the Supreme), the personal divinity, but what in Hinduism is called Brahman (godhead, godhood) -- divine awareness, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, touching and merging with Source -- the supreme reality behind all illusion.
Sex is like that, a sampling of that, as Usama bin Laughin was hinting at yesterday when he lost his religion and became a bad Muslim.
For many of us, it is only during sex that we merge with something bigger than ourselves and are relieved of our small sense of self, selfishness, and limits. It's as if we touch the Buddhist teaching of selflessness or emptiness or pure freedom (anatta), the insight that all things are actually impersonal and therefore not worth clinging to or getting angry or confused about (manifestations of the Three Poisons greed, hatred, and delusion).
Not God (Maha Brahma the Supreme), the personal divinity, but what in Hinduism is called Brahman (godhead, godhood) -- divine awareness, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, touching and merging with Source -- the supreme reality behind all illusion.
Sex is like that, a sampling of that, as Usama bin Laughin was hinting at yesterday when he lost his religion and became a bad Muslim.For many of us, it is only during sex that we merge with something bigger than ourselves and are relieved of our small sense of self, selfishness, and limits. It's as if we touch the Buddhist teaching of selflessness or emptiness or pure freedom (anatta), the insight that all things are actually impersonal and therefore not worth clinging to or getting angry or confused about (manifestations of the Three Poisons greed, hatred, and delusion).
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