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SACRED SEXUALITY
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By the same acts that cause some men to burn in hell for thousands of years, the Yogin gains his eternal salvation.
- Tantra
AFor a thousand years, the Western Judeo-Christian, authoritarian male-dominant strategy for handling the emotions, the body, pleasure, and our most basic instincts, was to keep them well in check, and generally disavow as best we could any feelings below the waistline. Freud said that empires were built on the resulting sublimated energy, but the game is over. It turns out there's nothing unspiritual about pleasure, and it’s good for your health.
It is instructive to ask just how we ever came to feel so bad about even thinking about feeling good. The heightened intensity of the sexual experience soon persuades us that it is the most important one in the world. The passions are so overwhelmingly powerful that religions have been warning you away from them since the dark ages. People get carried away, and begin to believe that the next great orgasm is the only important thing in life. They use each other for lust. When we can't handle our attachments, they enslave us and we enslave others. The most extreme instance is called rape.
Yet, ironically, through no other human activity, save dying, is the opportunity for ego-loss, transformation and transpersonal realization so prevalent and powerful as in conjugal love-making.
How to achieve such divine deliverance through one of the most common "animalistic" functions we perform is the secret known to enlightened lovers as the direct path of Love. It transcends the trap of the ego-self: In effect, the world's greatest aphrodisiac is selflessness.
The paradox of sex is that the same act can both liberate and imprison, depending upon one's intent, state of mind, and conditioning. Sex can drive you either towards or away from Enlightenment. The great enigma is, how can we transform the trap of addictive physical appetite to the ecstatic realization of Divine Union? It all depends on your true and underlying purpose. It calls for constancy and commitment to the ultimate goal of enlightenment.
Why is the divine gift of lovemaking so often little more than a desperate groping for glandular stimulation in dark rooms, accompanied by feelings of hunger and shame? Ironically, and all too often - when people use each other uncaringly - this most universally accessible mystical experience of orgasm is debased into something dishonorable and dirty.
But anti-sex admonitions in turn only give rise to guilt, when - despite heroic efforts to curb our “lower appetites” - we find ourselves indulging in what is, after all, the single most compelling human urge after breathing and eating. We might even say that repression of this primal biological imperative creates rapists and pedophiles.
Shame is taught by "authorities" who can embrace neither their animal nor their spiritual nature. They fear one and fake the other, and call this "correct."
Certain religions contend that sex must be solely for insemination and procreation, or it is devil-worship. By that logic, one should certainly refrain from using one’s hands (not to mention lips and tongue), and get it over with as quickly as possible. Obviously the Good Lord made this procreational pleasure-drive far more powerful than most individual's (and any church's) power to control it. A truly relevant and realistic religion would teach us how to consecrate our sexuality, not deny it. We need to unlearn our guilt about wanting sex, even as we realize what a guilded cage it could very well become.
Of course men and women compromise their morality and good judgment all the time for sex (although probably no more than for love, money, power, or fame). But the inherent dangers are hardly reason to avoid the experience. Respect for that very danger should make us take care as we take pleasure. Let us celebrate and make sacred our natural, innate sexuality. Copulation as high communion? Is there any better way?
The high art of making True Love is mystical and miraculous beyond comprehension. It inundates your entire being. It delivers you - body and soul - to unimagined heights of ecstasy. The discovery of the key to the union of spirituality and sexuality is at once a path to, and a gift of Enlightenment.
The ultimate consummation of physical love-making is complete transcendental Union. It bestows upon the lovers the experience of a spectacular breakthrough to the Infinite - beyond, but concurrent with our everyday existence. What begins as duality and polarization within time, climaxes as a shared soul-merging experience of Eternity. A transformation occurs which evolves from desire and passion to a level of total and perfect bliss, otherwise rarely known in human existence.
Spiritual merging in love is the elusive prize that everyone seeks when they lay down with another, whether they know it or not. Lust is only a call to love, and many have yet to answer it. We may think we are content giving and taking personal gratification, yet all the while the heart seeks nothing less than to lose itself absolutely in love, and be consumed in ecstatic union with the beloved and the Universe.
Excerpt from "Enlightenment in Our Time - The Perennial Wisdom in the New Millenium, by Lonny J. Brown. www.BookLocker.com/LonnyBrown |
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Lonny Brown,
Ph.D.
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Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D. is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Dr. Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
Lonny J. Brown, Ph.D. is also the author of " ENLIGHTENMENT ONLINE - The Newsletter for Spiritual Cyberspace.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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