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ECKHARTS BLASPHEMY - #0004

2009-11-21T17:45:15Z

When you see God, you are seeing a reflection of yourself.

Have you ever had the experience of being in the presence of divinity? Did you think this divine entity was separate from you? "God and I are one in the act of my perceiving him" says Meister Eckhart. In this experience you are experiencing YOUR non-separation from the whole universe. No matter how many times you break down a hologram the whole image is retained in its fullness, in each segment of the picture. So it is with your self. The small individual ego believes it is the whole separate from reality, But, if reality is what is real and you are separate from it, then, you just explained yourself OUT of existence!

The Gospel writers put into the mouth of Jesus these words, " I AM the truth and the light, no one comes to the father but THROUGH me." The obvious but superficial explanation of this would seem to say, unless you are a Christian you can't go to heaven. This is a non-intuitive, non mystical explanation. A mystical interpretation of this would give very different results. Jesus was a man who realized he was NO DIFERENT then GOD. This realization is open to ANYONE! This realization is realizing that you are the CHRIST. To become the Christ "pick up your cross and follow me" Christ says. That is what is meant by THE WAY.

We conveniently refer to our individual organism as I or "me", but in the final analysis the boundary between you and the entire universe is non-existent.
The implications may not immediately be clear. Each human being answers to NO ONE but themselves! This makes it surprisingly easy to get along with each other, simply treat each other as you would treat any God. You have the freedom to do what you will as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else’s will. Treat everyone like the God they are.

This rubs certain members of our society the wrong way, especially those who try to control you with fear of hell or the promise of an afterlife. Well, my answer to them is: in case you didn't know, treating each person like a god, is what "loving others as you would love yourself" actually MEANS. (Aesop said it first.)

Christianity: A Heathens Faith!
In the ancient world, drinking blood was considered a big taboo. Animal sacrifices spilled the blood of the animal but the blood was not drunk or consumed. Why? Were they anti- vampirism? NO. Blood was considered the life force, created by God. To drink blood meant, EQUALITY with God. Thats something only pagans did. The Cult of Isis*, would transform the wine and bread into the blood and flesh of the goddess. Those who would drink and eat of her flesh would have ecstatic experiences. So, when Jesus asked his followers to drink his blood and eat his flesh, he was not being kinky. He knew full well the significance of such a practice. He was saying that we are EQUAL to God. Unfortunately this interpretation is considered a blasphemy by the non-mystically bent.

Jesus (his roman name) was killed because he challenged the entire system of Emperor worship and racial requirements for spiritual practice. He didn't think you could fix a government if it was corrupt, "you can't patch an old wine skin with new cloth." He was champion of the poor making any left wing democrat seem like a totalitarian dictator. The only people who even approach the mind set of Jesus would be maybe, Martin Luther King jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X (is there a white person we could put on this list?). What would happen if his followers actually picked up their crosses and followed him? What would I be like if I did that?

(* The Cult of Isis was very popular even in Greek and roman areas! She was adopted by Grecian and roman religion.)

lordsluk @ 2009-11-19T16:46:00

2009-11-19T23:46:07Z

Ernest Becker's - "We are Gods who shit,"

Jukai poem

2009-11-19T23:43:53Z

What do clouds look like?

Fluffy ice white pillows

Nice snowy brains

Cotton downy self melter

Billowy me

An Elvish Dream, Feanor counsels me #0021

2009-10-18T03:39:26Z

Feanor the tolkien Elf Lord from the undying lands, appeared in my dreams two night ago. He was teaching me about cause and effect and the danger of opposite reactions.

"If you are overly compassionate" he told me, "you'll also be overly passive. If you rebel against any part of yourself OR conspire for any part of yourself there will be a negative consequence in the opposite direction. You can see this in all things in nature and especially in politics. Why else do you think there is always a left and a right, or two extreme views on every issue? Be aware of this, see it everywhere", he warned me.

I interpret this dream as a seeping down of things I've learned from years of dream journaling. What I've learned is this;

All energy is good, all feelings are good and all thoughts are good, all your personas are good, so long as they are in harmony with each other or integrated. This includes, lust, hate, jealousy, desire, passion, ambition, pride, all of the seven deadly sins basically. Wwithout these "negative emotions" i could not function. I need anger to be outraged over injustice, I need pride to motivate me to get out of bed. I need lust to desire to live despite all manner of obstacles put in my way. These things do not overide or cancel out my compassion, Love, tenderness, loyalty, friendship etc. This is how to become a deeper person.

It is interesting that it was the elf Feanor. He had great pride, invented warfare, the sword, armor and of course the Silmarills (from j.r.r. tolkiens Silmarillion). Feanor represents power, strength, pride, passion, discipline and self determination. These are all things that I believe I need to work on.

Cthonie Rests Below The Errth - The Rain Cannot Wash Away Your Stain.

2009-10-17T00:47:05Z

Play Loud on The equinox to summon the Errth Goddess.

A dream inspired this song; the Great Mother bathed me in her menstrual blood and then I could heal people.

Θάμυρις'ς Last Gasp

2009-10-14T05:24:32Z

New solo guitar piece I'm working on

My new song is about Thamyris. In Greek mythology, Thamyris (Greek: Θάμυρις), son of Philammon and the nymph Argiope, was a Thracian singer who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses. He competed against them and lost. As punishment for his presumption they blinded him, and took away his ability to make poetry and to play the lyre. Later sources add the details that Thamyris had claimed as his prize, if he should win the contest, the privilege of having sex with all the Muses (according to one version) or of marrying one of them (according to another); and that after his death he was further punished in Hades. The story demonstrates that poetic inspiration, a gift of the gods, can be taken away by the gods.

According to Diodorus the mythical singer Linus took three pupils, Heracles, Thamyris and Orpheus, which neatly settles Thamyris's legendary chronology. When Pliny the Elder briefly sketches the origins of music he credits Thamyris with inventing the Dorian mode and with being the first to play the cithara as a solo instrument with no voice accompaniment.

Zen Evangelism

2009-09-27T22:01:59Z

"You're okay just as you are . . .
Go about your business . . .
You're the Buddha . . .
But don't take my word for it . . .
I've already said to much . . .
I'm turning off my megaphone now "
*click*

I'm not having a bout of low self esteem, I'm just dumb

2009-09-22T19:17:52Z

I'll admit when it comes to Politics, & Economics I am pretty dumb. The current political landscape frightens my poor dumb brain and

I am tempted to listen to AM talk radio and replace my ignorance and panic with blind hate.

I would gain much comfort if I could blame everything on one person or group of people. It would be nice if I could blame the entire worlds economic crisis on something.

I've decided its all Finland's fault. The communist plot that threatens the American way of life is a scheme hatched by those Godless fishmongers. Finland used to b a decent country, second only to Paraguay (tied with Belgium), until Socialized healthcare was instituted in 1854. Finnish folk have free healthcare and a kick ass dental plan so they have plenty of capital and resources to undermine Americas great economic institutions, by funding labor unions and social "security".*

It's not president Obama's fault. No it's not run away capitalism either. Our economy is just where those Kalavala worshipping lakelanders want it. Take a last look at the American dream and take a whiff, there's white fish in the air.

* Invented by some lost Viking who bumped into Finland when chasing a walrus, refused to kill it until the Walrus paid him a merciful kill fee.

(no Finlandafarians were harmed in the creation of this irony)

Belief vs. Faith - Fundamentalism vs. Authenticity - Case #87

2009-08-16T15:30:45Z

Belief is holding on to an idea. Faith is letting go of all ideas and trusting your intuition. When folk lose faith and an intuitive relationship with life, they cling ever more tenaciously to belief. Atheists and religious folk alike. When this attachment prevents a person from trusting their intuition they will more likely embrace fundamentalism or a rigid inflexible belief.

Doubt is the enemy of belief, but not so with faith. Belief must have no perceivable flaws in order to give a person a sense of security and banish any underlying anxiety. Faith operates in a state of doubt, or great Doubt as they call it in zen. A person of faith realizes belief is divorced from reality. To live the life of faith you have to throw away security. Faith walks into an uncertain situation with raw trust, allowing intuition to guide it through a scary or new experience.

The spell checker offered to correctly spell rockstar as jockstrap

2009-07-06T22:20:45Z

I am an "amateur" musician who only listens, primarily to other "amateur" musicians.

High quality recordings can be made on the simplest computer. I hope the ease of online music sharing makes the concept of rock-star* completely obsolete. Music is for everyone, both for its listening enjoyment and performance. I would rather hear bad experimental music then anything Metallica has to offer.

All my best recorded music can be found on Alonetone and myspace.

http://alonetone.com/sluk

http://www.myspace.com/grotesquewoodenhead

the Good and the Bad #89

2009-06-23T19:59:18Z

The bad news about Christianity; it's a myth.
The good news about Christianity; it's a myth.
If you restore it as a myth you might be able to learn something from it.

this thing...

2009-06-22T01:03:07Z

there is this thing outside called "nature." Its like a giant terrarium only big enough for people to go in...like an air sauna, kind of.

I can swim along both streams, the Christian and the Buddhist. #88

2009-05-07T22:11:38Z

The coming and going of the ego each moment is "reincarnation". To escape birth-death, accept what your life is right now. Even the coming and going of the ego is the proper function of the universe.

To enter the kingdom of heaven, crucify your false self and rise from the dead, and be born again as a son or daughter of God.

All traditions make the mistake of taking religious metaphors literally. Spiritual language is designed to reach through logic straight to the intuition. If you take words to literally you end up with Christians believing in a literal heaven and the Buddhists a literal re-birth.

The mask we have constructed does not live on after death. let it go, let it die each moment, don't block out the reality of your life as it is right now. Thats heaven, that's nirvana.

lordsluk @ 2009-05-02T20:07:00

2009-05-03T03:09:29Z

- the internet is only a dream of communication-- turn off your computer see with your whole body -

Origins of Easter

2009-04-12T20:06:33Z

Q: Why did Buddha break up with Jesus?

A: Jesus could only "arise" every three days.

"Easter celebrations were festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg.

In the Mediterranean region, there was a spring celebration centered around the vernal equinox (March 20 or 21) that honored Cybele, the Phrygian goddess of fertility. Cybele’s consort, Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years b.c.e. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.

There are other Easter traditions that are pagan in origin. The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring. What we now call Easter lilies were revered by the ancients as symbols of fertility and representative of the male genitalia. The ancient Babylonian religions had rituals involving dyed eggs as did the ancient Egyptians." - Frater Stype

The early christian writers collected many myths popular of their time including spring equinox and resurrection myths, and reworked them to tell a new story. The new myth symbolized Jesus realization of divine nature, and the realization of our own divine nature.

When you extend your awareness past ego centrism to include other beings you rise from spiritual death and are born again as a son or daughter of God. Unfortunately they forgot to tell St. Paul this. St. Paul was not one for irony or subtle philosophy. He was a literalist who never met Jesus, and certainly didn't understand him. St. Paul gave u eXoteric Christianity. Esoteric Christians went into hiding in the egyptian desert. Led be Jesus's brother James, they started the desert fathers tradition and were called the Coptic christians. They chanted the mantra "Maranatha" (very loosely translated as "recieve God").

I am going to do the Buddhist precepts ceremony

2009-04-08T21:11:46Z

I've decided after 11 years of formal zen practice to take the Buddhist refuges or "the precepts". In the tradition I practice we have no ordination, there are no priests, no monks, and no hierarchy. The Diamond sangha has been criticized as being Anarchistic. The criticism is completely accurate, we are anarchistic and that's the way I like it :)

There is a Buddhist Priest in Tucson who has given argument because the diamond sangha has non-ordained Jukai. His argument, "how can you have un-ordained Jukai?, unless it is performed by an ordained priest it's not REAL Jukai."

Does this guy think Jukai is a magical spell that can only be performed by a bald guy in a dress? I am only interested in doing Jukai in front of my close friends and my teacher. I'm not interested in wearing a special robe and showing people how holy I am. It's an intimate ceremony for only a handful of friends.

Contemplation, Meditation, Zen etc.

2009-04-08T02:55:19Z

No one learns contemplation through talk, study, lectures or intellectual activity. Contemplation is the fruit of personal practice and experience. The experience is primarily the personal realization of the inseparable Wholeness of the Divine. Contemplation is non-discursive in nature, non-dualistic in nature. Talk, study, lectures and intellectual activity, are dualistic by nature. You can't learn guitar from reading about it, you have to put your fingers on the thing.

You just can't say anything about it - not this, not that. It's a dilemma.

Words cannot say, words fail.

We won't find anything we truly need on the internet. No genuine encounters happen there, and genuine encounters are the only ones that can relieve us of our loneliness and isolation - Willigis Jager

If only the oneness of consciousness could be glimpsed for just a moment - thunder!

The common ground of religious experience is Silence.

2009-04-05T01:07:56Z

The common ground of religious experience is Silence.

There is a common thread among all religions is Silence. In Silence one can experience more deeply the ground of their being. This experience is the basis of all mysticism; it is experiential in nature. Silence has no tradition.

In Silence we can meet ourselves, it is the place were all mysticism meets.
The central focus of the mystical experience is realizing our unity with all living things.
- Willigis Jager

This meeting ourselves cannot be adequately described with language but we are stuck and mystics have tried to convey this spirit in a variety of ways each according to their various different traditions, cosmologies, assumptions and the limitation of their language. The experiences themselves are the same only the explanation differs.
“Not This Not That.” You can’t say anything more about God. The mystic in all religions are unanimous on this point. - Willigis Jager:

When asked about God St. John of the Cross replied, “Nada, nada”. “Not This Not That.”

“There is a reality that precedes heaven and earth. It has no form let alone a name. Eyes cannot see it when they seek it. It has no voice and cannot be heard by ears… My worthy friends, if you desire to hear the thunderous voice of the Dharma, give up your words, empty your thoughts. Then you may come to the point of realizing the single being.” - Daio Kokushi:

In Devotional religion, one of the barriers in describing mystical experience is a anthropomorphized and often comical (terrifying) depiction of God. One of the first thing a mystic does is dispels the notion of God as something knowable. Once this is done it becomes easy to see similarities between eastern and western mysticism.

For example:

“If I had a God whom I could realize I would never take him to be God”
“God and I are one in the act of my perceiving him” - Meister Eckart

“This light guided me More surely than the light of noonday, To the place where he (well I knew who!) was awaiting me-- A place where none appeared. – Dark Night of the Soul

So we sit in silence with Monks & Nuns, Wild Women, Buddha’s, Madmen and Saints, one being, one sangha, one body.

Silence is bigger then Buddhism or Christianity. In the end those traditions will pass away but silence will go on for eternity.

lordsluk @ 2009-04-03T22:25:00

2009-04-04T05:27:13Z

We won't find anything we truly need on the internet. No genuine encounters happen there, and genuine encounters are the only ones that can relieve us of our loneliness and isolation - Willigis Jager

Freedom

2009-03-27T02:21:14Z

The more you need the praise of others the less you trust yourself.
Your all wonderful people but don't take my word for it - find out for yourself!!!!

wheel Icons

2009-02-12T19:20:55Z

The Star of chaos and the dharma wheel are two crucifixes, one on top of the other, askew by 45 degrees.

Two crucifixes because dying once wasn't enough, you need to repeatedly annihilate your ego to unleash the banished Gods.

This is undoing magic

Make the sign of the double cross:

Father, Son, holy, ghost

goddess, eris, 23, skidoo

Why I Meditate

2009-02-05T01:55:01Z

I sit because it's today at 6:53pm
I sit because I saw the sky when I was 8
I sit because I've already drawn every Dinosaur
I sit because of the Bassoon heard in the opening of the Rite of Spring
I sit because I am still a petrified little boy
I sit because my heart has been removed from my body, and someone else is in there
I sit because I don' have sex
I sit because like Ginsberg, Leary, & Burroughs I took LSD and had a religious experience
I sit because I'm confined to a wheel chair
I sit because it is what Jesus would "not-do"
I sit because Joni Mitchell makes me want to be a better person
I sit and consider the Bodhisattva Whitman and Thoreau
I sit because Mary refused to help Martha with the pasta
I sit because Sartre heard Jazz and gazed upon a beech tree
I sit because I gave peace a chance , and now I want to give it a fighting chance
I sit because I'm an un-born again christian
I sit because it is I who am mad, I who am mad, I who am mad.
I sit because I get Andy Warhol
I sit because while I adore John Lennon, it's Yoko whom I most respect
I sit because Ian Curtis, John Lydon and Jello Biafra killed the 60's in me
I sit because I want to leave a low carbon footprint
I sit because I appreciate the symphony of breathing
I sit because years ago I fell in love with a girl of 15 and there is nothing i can do about it.
I sit because "Black Napkins" performed on the Mike Douglas Show in 1976 made me weep
I sit because there is no I
I sit because God is dead and I have slain him along with the Buddha, Thich nhat hahn the Dalai Lama, Allister Crowley and any another charaltan who comes my way.
I sit because I have slain my precious ego (It keeps coming back)
I sit because this very body is the Buddha

Insights on Love - Repost 10/20/2004

2009-01-26T05:33:42Z

I’m not sure falling in love is the same as love. Falling in love is a mad rush of feelings. I imagine after 10 years of marriage a couple no longer is “in love”, but have replaced the immature “in love” with real love. This real love is a special kind of friendship that simply allows for sexual intimacy.

I hope I never fall in love again, but I would like someone to love. My ideal situation would be to find a girl I am attracted to, I get along with and that shares a common interest in spirituality or meditation, not necessarily Zen, but, some kind of “practice”. Personally I don’t need that much sex to be happy, (or any) as much as I need intimacy.

This person could be my friend without any obligation to marry me, live with me (although that would be nice), to bear me children, or to be my official girlfriend or novia. It would be a "no strings attached policy." We would be best friends and on occasion we could just make out on the couch. This is more then just friends, but, without all the patriarchal gender politics.

As a severely disabled guy the “more then friends”, friend could help me do things that are more intimate then what seems appropriate for a standard friendship. For instance, I need help bathing, and stretching, to keep my muscles from contracting into rigidity (insurance won’t cover it and the local physical therapist charges $50 per 15 minutes). Having an intimate friend around really would make my life more livable, instead of how stressful living alone can be. I could provide a place to live for the person and enough food money to squeak bye feeding two adults. This person could be a college student whose entire paycheck can go to their schooling or other artistic needs. It could be a mutually beneficial arrangement.

I think sex can neither damn you or save you. In order to be happy people must be completely self reliant.

Dear Ego Censor - Dream Work ~1~ (2004)

2009-01-23T01:19:47Z

Dear Ego Censor,

Please allow me to remember my dreams. You have been doing a great job of protecting my ego from uncomfortable material that has been rising up like a phoenix out of the ashes of my unconscious. Please continue to monitor (censor is such a harsh word) my rising thoughts when I am active during my waking hours, especially when I am operating a vehicle. I know your job of keeping the constant flow of unconscious insight and creativity from interfering with my very important tasks like balancing my checkbook and remembering to shower occasionally, has been a thankless one. I am so thankful Censor, that I am giving you nights off and two hours in the morning when I meditate, as a reward for your diligent work. I may occasionally give you the day off if I a safely squirrel myself away in my house obsessing over some art project or reading the tarot cards.

You have a lot more to gain by allowing me access to the incongruous images that rise from my deep mind then by keeping me safe and subsequently stagnant. I can handle a little insanity now, especially that I am on a strict spiritual discipline. Your top secret information has been cleared by my super ego, and I have been given complete security clearance. This information will help to strengthen my ego, giving you more vacation time in the future, and making me a happier and a more complete person.

I still need you Censor, especially now that I will be asking lots of women out on dates. Please don’t let those most humiliating memories from my past be suddenly remembered in vivid detail while I am trying to talk to women. During these times I give you permission to be on hyper alert to protect me from all bad memories. In fact you can even loosen your hold on the id if you need more energy to block emotions out (like all those abuse memories for instance).

I promise to feed you and keep more bad experiences away from you by being more selective of my friends, not exposing myself to those who can’t be trusted, and opening myself up to those who are supportive of my emotional needs. I promise to give you more peace and quiet and low stress activities.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Sincerely,

sluk

Because of Joni Mitchell

2009-01-22T04:04:33Z

Because of Joni Mitchell I don't have pornography on my computer.
I look at pornography, don't get me wrong I just can't "own it" because of Joni Mitchell.
While carousing the internet, I often come across a picture of an attractive woman I find desirable and I invariable download it. At some point a Joni Mitchell song will come up on my playlist and before the song is over any porn on my computer . . . *delete* . . . gone!.

I can't simultaneously see a woman as only a sexual object and listen to Joni Mitchell.
What if Joni Mitchell finds out I have porn? What if Joni Mitchell hates me? What if Joni Mitchell thinks I'm sexist?

Honestly speaking, I will probably never meet Joni Mitchell, but even if I did, I wouldn't really worry about her liking me. Joni represents a part of me, a part of me that is tender and who automatically puts me in the position of others. When I listen to Joni Mitchell I begin to feel what its like to be a woman, as much as is possible for a man I guess.

On second thought, I believe Joni's music just makes me feel things I don't want to feel. Some emotions are just so painful. I wonder about all the ways I block out the suffering of others and choose my own comfort. Maybe if I processed these feelings I can look at porn with a pang of conscious but then again why would I want to?

Having said that, I want o reiterate that I see sexual energy as an important force that drives us to relate to one another in a profound way. I don't think repression of sexuality is valuable, helpful or ultimately even possible. I jus think we should see sex as magic, a way of making things happen or to create something new. I would lke to put forth the assertion that
sexual creative energy and artistic creative energy are the same thing. In order to really get into your art you have to really obsess over it like a lover.

I think we should view our sexuality as an art project. Let's get creative! ")

"We are stardust, we are golden" - Joni Mitchell
"Thou art God" - Micheal Valentine Smith
"Every man and woman is a star" - Alistair Crowley
"Every being is the Tatagatha" - Siddartha Gotauma (Buddha)