* * Beautiful, Mark! Having myself undergone a "dark night of the soul" for several years, during which horrific time I lost the golden light of God and Master and my own soul, and my own certainties and "special attainments," and where absolutely everything I believed in or held dear crumbled to dust and ashes and eternal grayness, and my entire universe and all its paradisal refuges became just another house of cards tumbling down through the merciless eye of the needle, I can certainly relate to the perfect inevitability and timeliness of this timeless "dying to the world."
And in retrospect, of course, I would not change a thing; the "eternal life" or ever-present Reality eventually revealed in the dying of the light is well worth the price of admission, like obtaining a diamond for the price of spinach. Given my own inexpressible love and appreciation of this divinely inevitable process of utter humiliation, which strips us naked of all comfort, purges us in heartbreaking aloneliness, and crucifies us between heaven and earth, I would be the last one to encourage anyone poised at such a threshold to wholeheartedly buy into yet another belief system. If entirely invested in, every belief is simultaneously a prison and an addictive escape from our paradoxical simplicity: every one. And so I continually encourage everyone to consider them all but models or maps, for entertainment purposes only; they are self-portraits, works of art: poetry, not Gospel. We are, Reality is, a priori and eternal and infinitely slippery, subtler than the intellect and hence too subtle to be conceived of, let alone described; it (and we) can only be surrendered into and embraced. *L*L*L* --- In [email protected], Mark Landau <m@...> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 9:44 PM, seventhray1 wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > BTW is this service Rory renders an hourly rate or is it billed by > > > intensity? (Cat-o-nine with the metal tips only in the premium Mel Gibson > > > package.) > > > > I think we the real question we have to ask is, Is Mark an enabler in this > > case? I think the evidence might convict him. > > > I guess this is what I would say to that at this darkest hour before the dawn: > > Yes, a wealth of holes, yes, overblown extravagance and a too facile way of > interchanging any component that might conceivably fit anywhere one can and, > yes, a blatant disregard for true rigor, but also truth and beauty. In this > time of real anguish and unutterable darkness writhing on the face of our > planet and in the universe at the depth of this mini-Kali Yug in which we > find ourselves, I will take truth and beauty anywhere I can find it. If we > can't find truth and beauty in the heartbreaking fragility and staggering > magnificence the torus of creation presents and in the principle of truly > loving and giving everything in creation "within and without us" that which > each thing truly needs as best we can, where will we find it? All edifices > of intellectual manufacture, including those created by the Catholic Church, > Maharishi and yes, Rory Goff, will, of necessity, come tumbling down like the > houses of cards they are in the face of what we have been working for for > eons, if, indeed, we are lucky enough to see any kind of true ascension > manifest on the killing fields and within the voracious, all-consuming greed > factories we have produced, and, yes, we all, together, have produced these > things. For the truth is beyond them all. And if we ever are to begin to > approach it, the miracle of our finding our true humility, simplicity, > open-hearted generosity, inclusivity, and, yes, our terrifying vulnerable > objectivity, will somehow have to occur. If we can incorporate and > assimilate it all, and move beyond it, we'll find ourselves standing, > clear-eyed, with no need of any prop and hardly believing all the sound and > fury signifying nothing. But we'll know we went through it and smile and, > maybe, who knows, even join hands with our brethren instead of judging, > dismissing and despising them. What kind of world will we then have? > > How's that for overblown? > > m > > > > > > > Can we supply our own dialogue? Don't want to skeeve anyone out too badly > > > but I would love to be taunted will being whipped: > > > > > > "You magical thinker, your epistemology has more holes than a pasta > > > strainer, your premises are dirty, I mean faulty, they are unfounded on > > > either empirical evidence or even sound reasoning. You are a dirty > > > believer aren't you now, a dirty, dirty believer who accepts things on > > > faith you read in books that support slavery and the oppression of women, > > > and you love it don't you? You love your ancient texts full of > > > superstitions because you are a superstitious boy yourself, aren't you > > > now? You are a bad thinking, a bad bad thinker, your thinking is bad and > > > you are wrong but you don't care because you don't love knowledge, you > > > just want to protect your special class of ideas that you hold for bad, > > > bad, dirty reasons. > > > > > > Now tell me you love your masters, all of them, including Sai Baba, say > > > you love Sai Baba and you believe in the second coming of Maitreya and > > > crop circles as alien messages and the hairy monstrous bigfoot (not > > > Bevan)and you believe that John Hegelin has proven scientifically, beyond > > > any doubt, that the chilled-out feeling in meditation IS the basis for > > > the universe, and you believe it because you feel it is right in your > > > dirty, dirty, illogical mind. And you love disco too. You love the > > > pounding beat like a cranial jackhammer pounding in the rhythms of the > > > night.And you eat at McDonalds more than Jason Spurlock did for that 30 > > > days because you hate to cook." > > > > > > > > > Wow! I'm just glad I didn't admit that outside my own head. That is not > > > the kind of confession I would like to go into cyberspace for others to > > > see...hey what is this button for that says send...ooops > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > In [email protected], "Alex Stanley" > > > > > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > "So, you're outta here until the evening of Aug 12." > > > > > > > > > > Bhur hoo! > > > > > > > > > > OM MG! > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll have to have Rory give me 50 lashings for missing the opportunity > > > > to say, "The Buck stops here." > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
