Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => Art of the Mystic => : Alexander August 10, 2014, 12:34:20 AM
-
Bloodsport - Sneaker Pimps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YHiYaBqgZc
I want to be a kid again
Combed down hair and Sunday best
See me staying home bunking school
Knowing wrong from right just rules
I wish I'd never seen your face
"Better door than window" phase
I need an echo, not your praise
Straying from the point you nailed
My mother, my mother, my mother never told
My mother, my mother, my mother never told me
Love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
Cause love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
Sex I know is not a game
A game is something you can win
Maybe something kind of fun
Cause love is just a bloodsport, son
My mother, my mother, my mother never told
My mother, my mother, my mother never told me
Never told me
Never told me
Cause love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
Cause love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
Cause love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
Cause love is just a bloodsport
Love is just a bloodsport
-
Great tune. I enjoyed it very much.
It's appropriate to compare love to being a blood sport. After all we end up losing everyone we love in one way or another. Relationships can be so very complex and at times very cruel. It can drive one into madness and suicide.
I'm glad to be celibate, it simplifies one's life, it relieves one of a great burden, and it helps one enormously to lead a contemplative life. It's no wonder that the Buddha considered it an important part of the training.
Since we're on the subject of love there is the nonsexual love we have for our friends and family, etc. I read somewhere that the Buddha made this comment: "He who loves 50 people has 50 woes." I wonder from which sutta this comes from? He also taught the idea that one should avoid being attached to those people that one loves, to let them go as they enter and exit our lives. Have you ever heard of this teaching?
-
Great tune. I enjoyed it very much.
It's appropriate to compare love to being a blood sport. After all we end up losing everyone we love in one way or another. Relationships can be so very complex and at times very cruel. It can drive one into madness and suicide.
I'm glad to be celibate, it simplifies one's life, it relieves one of a great burden, and it helps one enormously to lead a contemplative life. It's no wonder that the Buddha considered it an important part of the training.
Since we're on the subject of love there is the nonsexual love we have for our friends and family, etc. I read somewhere that the Buddha made this comment: "He who loves 50 people has 50 woes." I wonder from which sutta this comes from? He also taught the idea that one should avoid being attached to those people that one loves, to let them go as they enter and exit our lives. Have you ever heard of this teaching?
It makes sense to me. It can also be something that one clings to, after death. Sadly, it is also a distraction...they tend to need you, and expect that their own needs be met.
I was thinking on the celibate topic earlier and, with the help of Jhanon, realized what I think the Buddha meant. Firstly, sex is a distraction, something not worthy of pursuit in comparison to Jhana, and the contemplative life. Secondly, and most importantly, the third Jhana...If one is not celibate, or at least resolved not to pursue erotic sensual desire, the likely-hood of abiding in the fourth Jhana is unlikely.