marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Detachment for the biblical mystic is a strategy, not a goal. In the end, you must not remain a spectator in the drama of your own existence. Rather, you need to become the lead ...
Archive for August, 2008
On the Clarification of Desire: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Desire is Holy. And not always to be acted upon. In fact often not to be acted upon. The biblical mystic lovingly counsels us to be with yourself and gently watch your desires as ...
The Eye of Desire: Alexander the Great: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com shared comments on info@marcgafni.com The Eye of Desire For many of the biblical mystics, the symbol of confused desire was Alexander the Great. He took almost the entire known world of his day. Yet, insisted the ma ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Davinci Codes, Templars: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The templars. The masons. Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark of the Covenant in the Temple. Jerusalem the place of the temple. The eye of the storm and the hope for peace. Davinci ...
The Third Face of Eros: Desire: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Third Face of Eros: Desire Desire has gotten a bad name. Buddhists talk about desire all the time and tell us how bad it is. Christianity and Judaism are big attackers of des ...
Snakes and Scorpions: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com We have all met snakes and scorpions. The biblical master ask the students. The mantra reads. The pit was empty, it had no water. {This comes from the description of the pit that ...
Life is what you do with your emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Life is what you do with your emptiness. Life is about walking through the void. Every time we walk through and not around the void we come out stronger. Every time we are seduce ...
Echoes of Emptiness; The Erotic and the Ethical: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The arena where emptiness- non-erotic living – is most destructive is in the ethical. Every ethical failure comes from the absence of eros. It is the inability to stay in t ...
Stay in the Emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The cherubs once again serve as our guide. Remember that the vortex of Shechina in the biblical myth is no less than “atop the ark in the Holy of Holies, between the cherubs.†...
Aftertaste Part Two: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Now here is a wild idea. Biblical myth practice suggests that, just as a fast day is helpful in sensitizing you to distinguish between wholesome and desperate eating, regular sho ...
Aftertaste: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com AFTERTASTE: Now if we are courageous enough to walk one step further, we will see that sex follows the same exact formula. Every human being engages in two very different forms o ...
Ever Brushed up Against Emptiness?: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments at info@marcgafni.com One of the beauties of a spiritual system which invites an occasional fast day is that you can’t just jump to devour. Instead, you have to sit there in the hunger, in the empti ...
Why Do I Eat Food?: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com There’s a wonderful short prayer in the Hebrew liturgy which is recited after eating. Strangely the prayer begins with a unique formula which appears nowhere else in the ...
Pseudo Eros and Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sac ...
Pseudo Eros: Chocolate-Covered Raisins: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments at info@marcgafni.com The same thing happens with food everyday without our realizing it. Our bodies can be our most blatant teachers. Our bodies are talking, but are we listening? On a religious fast ...