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Eroticism is an experience of life in all its intensity and exuberance: it is the death of the isolated self that suddenly finds itself in the midst of life’s orgy, that is in the midst of the play of energies that existence is. Death, here, is not a biological ending of function, but the movement that breaks the limited existence. Death is the experience of the beyond the limits—an experience of the impossible. [...] Far from being the desire to own the other, what erotic love craves is the experience of the impossible, that is the experience of existence in its violence and exuberance, where possibility, as in the logic of seriousness, is impossible. This is equivalent to death, since it is, in a way, an experience of nothingness.

Thomas Minguy, “Erotic Exuberance: Bataille’s Notion of Eroticism” in PhaenEx, vol. 12, no. 1.

Note to myself: choose wisely ☑️

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.-Charles R. Swindoll

𝗣𝗨𝗥𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝝠 𝗠𝗬𝗧𝗛 / 𝗜𝗧’𝗦 𝝠 𝗧𝗥𝝠𝗣 / 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝝠𝗞 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 / 𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝝝𝗡 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 / 𝗖𝗛𝝝𝝝𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗬 / 𝗪𝗘𝗜𝗥𝗗 𝗜𝗦 𝝠 𝗖𝝝𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 / 𝗡𝝝𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝝝 𝗠𝗬𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙 / 𝗬𝝝𝗨 𝝠𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝝝𝝠𝗗 /𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦𝝠𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗕𝗜𝗚𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 / 𝗠𝗬 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝝝 / 𝗟𝝝𝗩𝗘 & 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗟𝝝𝗩𝗘 / 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 & 𝗟𝗘𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 / 𝗞𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗘 / 𝗞𝗘𝗘𝗣 𝗜𝗧 𝗥𝗘𝝠𝗟 / 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝝝 / 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧 / 𝗠𝝝𝝝𝗗 𝗕𝝝𝝠𝗥𝗗 /𝗣𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗦𝝠𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗗𝗘𝝠𝗗 ​/ 𝗡𝝝 𝗚𝝝𝗗𝗦 𝗡𝝝 𝗠𝝠𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦 / 𝗣𝗥𝝝 𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗘 𝗠𝗙𝗭 / 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗬𝗦𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗭 𝗡𝝝𝗧 𝗪𝗘𝗟(𝗟) 𝗖𝗨𝗠 / 𝗧𝝝 𝝠𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝝠 𝗟𝗨𝗩𝝠𝗭

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“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”

— Paulo Coelho, “The Spy”

World Book Day

Family need not be bloodline specific in the way you see it. Family may be those who understand and see you for your beauty and your perfection. Family may be seen as the most gorgeous sunrise you witness or the most pure, uplifting breeze you feel as you walk through the woods. Family may be the smile you receive from a stranger on the street. Family may be the sensation you feel in your heart when you see two people connect. Family may be so much larger than just the nuclear sense, as you call it. Family is the, or can be viewed, as the oxygen that you breathe, the life-giving nutrients that you receive from the food you eat. It can be seen as the spiritual lessons you are gifted. For all of these things support you in your incarnation and in your soul’s journey forward. Is that not the definition of how you see family? These ever-present and guiding elements that make you feel at home, that help you know yourself more deeply?

My gut wrenches as hours pass on any given day, I am always sick. The flow of time is said to be beautiful, and something to be cherished, but I cannot. Hours are too short and I am constantly letting them pass. Moments cease in a heartbeat and restful sleeps will fly by in an instant. The most beautiful sunset only lasts for a meager time, and when the sun rises my stomach will turn violently as my body and mind attempt to catch up to the flow of time. I am behind time and running out, and I am ill by that thought.

Thank you so much Quooo, you’re too sweet 🥺

QUO - Within The Backrooms

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

-John Banville, "The Sea"

Be Yourself with Confidence.

You should never feel obligated to do or say something just because you think some else wants you to or just to fit In.That’s not natrual or you.The more you stay true to yourself the happier you will be.If you like playing piano,violin,guitar,writting or singing you do THAT.That Is what makes you you! People always have and alway will have In their mind what you can and cannot do,or what you can and cannot say,or how you should and should not dress.Alway remember to be real.Be authentic.Be yourself and you will be happier being you rather than someone else.It will grow you Into a better person, otherwise how can you grow being someone else? You can not.Be confident In your own body, know your worth and grow like a flower In spring.Never rely on someone else to be confident, but always strive to gain confidence on your own no matter what.Be your own cheerleader! Be confident In the way you style your hair,the way you speak,the way you walk, the way you work,the way you write and In everything.Never let strangers and status quo determine who you truly are,NEVER!

Yoga comes from the root Yuj, to yoke, or join together, and its practices unite individual consciousness with the source of consciousness beyond all concepts of “I” or “mine.” The joyful awareness arising from the practice of Tantric yogas is never an end in itself, but a means for expanding deeper into the vast, open, nondual nature of anatta, or egolessness.

Before leaving Kathmandu, Hamid and I had gone to see Chatral Rinpoche in Pharping, at the cave where Padmasambhava had attained liberation together with his consort Sakyadevi. The daughter of a Nepalese queen who died in childbirth, Sakyadevi was reputedly raised from infanthood by monkeys in the forests surrounding an ancient temple dedicated to the great goddess Vajrayogini. Padmasambhava first saw her perched on the branch of a tree and dressed in nothing more than leaves; he immediately recognized her as an ideal spiritual companion.

The narratives of Padmasambhava describe his numerous liaisons as parables of the Tantric path, in which desire is transmuted into radiant compassion and expanding levels of spiritual awareness. In Tibet, when ministers threatened to cast Padmasambhava into the Tsangpo for his disregard for conventional morality, he retreated to an ice-bound cave with Yeshe Tsogyal, the Tibetan emperor’s youngest queen. Practicing under his guidance, she attained enlightenment through tummo, the yoga of mystic heat.

According to Tantric precepts, practices such as tummo dissolve the illusion of an isolated, independent self. When practiced in union or through visualization, desire itself transforms into luminous rapture, and becomes an offering of joy, beyond conceptions of self and other. Tertons, the male and female treasure revealers, often developed their intuitive powers to their highest capacity through consorts who served as channels or intermediaries between the adept and the full expanse of reality. In accord with Tantric vows, they almost invariably kept their consorts’ identities secret or referred to them only obliquely. Yet as Padmasambhava declared in one of the neyigs, no one following the code of a monk would ever be able to open the doors to Pemako’s innermost realms: they remained the province of the noncelibate yogi-terton.

As his consort, Yeshe Tsogyal declared “Let male aid female, female aid male; let each penetrate the other as in weaving... merge emptiness with bliss... and allow the vital essences to pervade your being... Realize the fruit of passion, the Great Bliss (Mahasukha) ... and let doubts and confusion disappear!”

When I had first approached lamas for instruction in these secret yogas, they told me they could be dangerous. They’re similiar to a snake in a hollow piece of bamboo, I was told: one can fall to the lowest hells or travel upward to the highest Buddha Realms. In other words, the bliss may either inflate the ego and result in spiritual complacency or dissolve all sense of separation and lead deeper into the mystery of sunyata, or emptiness. (“Translating sunyata as Emptiness,” wrote Octavio Paz, “is something worse than a misuse of language; it is a spiritual infidelity.”)

As desire without compassion sabotages the subtle unfolding of higher states of awareness, the yogas of union are often regarded as the most deceptive of all Tantric practices. If practiced correctly, however, and the woman’s energies penetrate the male’s, neural energies flow through a fractal network of synaptic pathways called tsa (nadis), dissolving subtle physiological, psychological, and energetic impediments and uniting at the heart center, the nexus of the body’s estimated seventy-five trillion cells. In the illuminated heart, illusions of separateness vanish and, what Buddha called avidya, or not really seeing, transforms into a radiant realization of the dynamic interconnectedness that unifies all life.

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With or without a consort, practitioners of the inner Tantric yogas arouse the dormant energy in the lower chakras and cause it to rise like a flame through the body’s central meridian, “melting” the luminous secretions (tigle) in the brain which, in turn, stream down like nectar (dudtsi) and give rise to increasingly subtle states of consciousness and, ultimately, to the realization of the nondual expanse of emptiness and luminosity, the Clear Light, held to be the mind’s innermost essence.

In the 1980s, in order to delve more deeply into these arcane practices, I studied in South India with a Tantric master who placed me on a diet of cinnabar and gold dust. My assigned consort, Uma Devi, had been raised in a temple since the age of six. In the weeks before initiation, she lived on crushed rose petals and powdered pearls that had been dried under the rays of the moon. In later retreats, I used preparations from the Chandramaharoshana Tantra that transform seminal essences into a bioluminescence that lifts the mind from habitual perceptions of time and space.

Hamid had eaten the same alchemical preparations of purified mercury and gold with a girl of exceptional beauty from India’s northeastern frontier named Minring. Minring had come to Nepal to work as a pilot for one of the kingdom’s airline companies. Despite her training at a Texas school of aviation, Minring was deeply connected to her tribal roots in Nagaland. Soon after she’d returned from America, fellow villagers had killed her uncle as he devoured a goat on a night when he had allegedly transformed into a tiger. It’s still commonly held in India’s northeast frontier that certain human beings have a propensity for turning—literally—into wild animals. According to Minring, her aunt and nephews had locked her uncle in his room at night on full moons, but in the mornings the inside of his bedroom door would be gouged with claw marks.

Minring’s remarkable stories—along with the fact that her maternal grandfather had the largest collection of human heads in their ancestral village—had impressed Hamid sufficiently that he relented to her requests for a formal consecretion of their union. Bhakha Tulku performed the rite, giving them five-feathered arrows of long life to hold in their hands and seating them on the moulting skin of a Himalayan brown bear that he had brought back to Kathmandu from Powo. After performing the ritual, Bhakha Tulku had his doubts. “Lopa girls are too wild,” he told me after the ceremony, “they rarely stay with one man.”

-- Ian Baker, The Heart of the World

Q'uo On Sacred Contracts

A brief excerpt from this channeling: Your query concerns your sacred contract and your divine purpose and we would take those two separately, for the concept of a sacred contract is one which we find to be full of the pitfalls of the culture in which you live. You certainly have created contracts, and we say that in the plural rather than the singular, before this incarnation. These contracts have to do with relationships. In your considerations before this incarnation, you and the guidance system which is yours, sat down together and thoughtfully, carefully considered where you as a soul felt that you were with the issues of polarity and of balance. For it is desirable to [those] heavily polarized towards service-to-other and quite common and usual that there will be an issue of balance involved in choosing the relationships with which you set yourself up before incarnation. This is the balance between wisdom and love, for those who have come back into this incarnation from higher densities.