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Sex and Spirituality - by Sundar Srinivasan
By - 3:42 PM Saturday 24 December 2005
Personally, I see spirituality being in an attitude, not in the presence or absence of any pre-defined activity. Love making can be an aesthetic and creative artform in human interface, sensitive and sensual.In such a context , it can be a liberating and enriching experience, unconditional in its perspective. In a state of heightened awareness, all activity is liberating.
However, lust , a desire to possess and where the mind gets fixated can be crippling and inhibitive.It is infact miserable and enhances our vulnerability. Lust also forms a part of a vicious cycle with guilt and boredom - inter-generating each other and draining wo/man of energy.
To a lot of people, institutionalized spaces represent automatic sacredness.Nothing can be farther from the truth. Have we not heard of humiliating rape and non-consensual sex within the institution of marriage.
To me , morality as it exists today is a dead social dynamic, a matter of habit rather than an emergence from a dynamic spirituality.
Any act be heightened through awareness , be it sensual erotica, fantasy paradigms , chat interfaces etc...the activity ; by itself is not good or bad. It is an attitude one brings into it that matters.Sensitivity and mutual respect in interpersonal interfaces is the key.The rest are a matter of mutual choice.Space shares are contextual to the choices of the participants. Sacredness is a parameter of awareness they bring in.
Life can be an expression in sensitive aesthetics and creativity or a dead, boring duty bound enterprise in any activity one choses to pursue. The key factor is the discovery of joy and love which enable an aesthetic and creative perception to life and flood everyone and everything in its' wake.
Posted By - 3:42 PM Saturday 24 December 2005
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Hi Sundar
Good to have you with us. Wise writing on the what really constitues the spiritual and what the banal. ANd perhaps that really is where modern minds can best start searching for their responses to living. And as you rightly say, 'sacredness is a parameter of awareness that we bring to all things'.
Thank You
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I like this site becoz all you people are saying gentle and nice things about sex. But I don't know what everything you sya mean but I will read again and the write my question. Sundar I don't know what you sya bout yourself also but I like your pix. You look like a kind man.
thanx
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hi sundar,
lovely words.
the last paragraph made me remember a small piece of advice i read " instead of doing what u like, like what u do."
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tx for your feedbacks, jasjit, anusheh, aachi and ikp...pleasure to be here..
Posted by on December 25, 2005 05:57 AM
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Sundar,
Welcome to the Blog. It's great to have you on the team. Wonderful article.
"Life can be an expression in sensitive aesthetics and creativity or a dead, boring duty bound enterprise in any activity one choses to pursue". Very well said. This reminded me of how once Osho speaking on vegetarianism had said that the only thing wrong with eating meat was that is was so unaesthetic. That stayed with me for a long while and in retrospect had more impact on me than dictates on the 'sin' or 'spiritual downfall' of meat eating. If one were to just follow aesthetics I think it would be much more liberating and transforming than any notion of morality.
love
anusheh