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 ...
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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 ...
The motivation for Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com 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 sacred con ...
Pseudo Eros, Gossip and Emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com At our spiritual retreats, which are not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a little bit of a loop by the opening talk which I gave at Orienta ...
Something Beautiful for Your Day: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments at info@marcgafni.com This is a beautiful poem which captures the living divine, who voices animates everything. It was send to me by a beautiful being whose grace, energy and integrity make God smile ...
A Brief Response to Some Voices in Jewish “Leadership”: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Hi friends, Good Morning here in Salt Lake City. I am on my way to Ca. this morning to spend a week with a group of friends, spiritual teacher types, some great rabbis, an ...
We are all Addicts: Until we are Not: Failure of Eros: Post Four: A story: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comment at info@marcgafni.com An image from the Galilee. At the spiritual retreats which I led in Israel for many years, which were not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a ...
Addiction: A failure of Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com ADDICTION: A FAILURE OF EROS Addiction is, at its root, the inability to stay in the emptiness. So we rush to fill the emptiness with whatever gives us the quickest hit of ...