To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/05/29 20:54
Subject: RE: [K-list] in honor of sensual delight
From: Rick Mayweather

Quote -
If addiction makes you unconscious, then it should be dropped.


It's the church that has harmed mans natural ability to enjoy himself.

> > I don't think awakened masters need to pursue it. Distraction from
>what,
> > is
> > the question. The pleasures of samadhi and equivalent can certainly
>be
> > distracting, from day to day activity. One learns to function within
>it,
> > though.

>The point on distractions is: if an activity shifts the focus away from
>the journey to enlightenment then the activity is a distraction. That
>activity can be pleasure or spiritual gifts. I am personally glad that
>my K awakening has been quiet and I do not have gifts of seeing auras or
>precognition or strong intuitions or other gifts because it leaves my
>attention focused on enlightenment and not the awakening itself. Some
>can handle both - as demonstrated by many on this list - I fear I would
>find the activity too distracting.
>
> > I often think there is a new age Puritanism that sees the pleasures
> > associated
> > with K awakening as somehow unspiritual.
>
>Your point about Puritanism is fair, however, there seems to me to be a
>difference between the pleasures of intimacy and K awakening on one hand
>and the endless pursuit of pleasure on the other. If I find alcohol and
>drugs pleasurable should I consume as much as possible to heighten my
>pleasure? If I have sex with as many people as possible without regard
>for relationship; not caring for the other then should I continue
>because it brings me pleasure?

>There is a huge difference between delighting in the experience of life,
>of taking pleasure in love and intimacy versus desiring and consuming
>pleasure to feed destructive addictions.

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