Archive for 2008

Eros and Holiness: On the Evolution of Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The footnotes shared in Eros and Holiness Post Eight require some explanation. First, they are intended primarily for advanced Students. Second, they are for the most p ...

Love or Die: A Politics of Love: Eros and Holiness: Part Eleven

Posted on: July 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni posted by marc gafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Path of Love One cannot be told that life is worth while —one must experience the love of living first hand. Yet so few people have an unmediated sense of the adequacy, ...

Original Sources for Parts Five, Six and Seven: Eros and Holiness: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 26th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

posted by marc gafni on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com For an explanation about the nature of these notes and the nature of creating new spiritual thought in general particularly from ancient and sacred sources, see please ...

Eros and Holiness: Part Ten: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 26th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com I am a Kabbalist. And I am in pain. I am in pain because the world and therefore God is in pain1. To shatter the narrowness of my egocentricity and to feel both the pai ...

Possible Names for our New Library: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 25th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Library or Series that we are suggesting might be called by any one of the following names: Next Steps Library {or Series} New Jewish Thought Library {or Series} Li ...

A New Library: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 25th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Introduction: The following modest proposal was submitted to the board of the foundation as an outline of the library that the foundation would like to produce. The lea ...

Letter to Friends that went out today sharing the website and my public perspective on where we are and where we need to go: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 24th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com A Public Letter send to people on my mailing list inviting them to look at our website. Hi Friend, Shalom Chaver I hope this note finds you well. First a tech ...

Eros and Holiness: Marc Gafni: Part Nine: Feel free to start reading from here; the part numbers are only for those who want to follow the whole teaching all the way through…

Posted on: July 24th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Epigrams below each capture the Dharma of Eros and Holiness. “Even as the trees that whisper round a Temple become soon as dear as the Temple’s self…” -John ...

On Eros, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Five: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 23rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is Eros= Holiness= Sanity= Atonement= Joy Everyone has a place in life where they can be sane. That is the place where they know reality. Where part merges ...

On Eros and Holiness, Sanity, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Four: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 23rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer Lives Lishmah; For its own Sake. Or in the second translation; Lishmah means — For the sake of the Name; You become a manifestation, a stunning, shimmerin ...

On Eros and Holiness, Sanity, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 23rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is about enlightenment realized in this world. In Buddhism this is the tenth Ox-Herding picture. In Hebrew wisdom it is Abraham after realization returning ...

On Eros and Holiness, Sanity, Speed Racer, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, the Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 23rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is about teaching and transmission; Rex Racer, his father and mother and Trixie his girl friend since age seven or so are all Speed Racers teachers even as ...

On Eros and Holiness, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 23rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com I just saw the movie Speed Racer. I want to thank Larry Wachowski and his brother for making the movie. You Rock! In an email or conversation I had with Larry some two ...

On Being a Spiritual Teacher or Spiritual Artist; On Changing my Name and the Hate Blogs of History: Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 21st, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On Being a Spiritual Teacher or Spiritual Artist; On Changing my Name and the Hate Blogs of History Some notes to myself on Sunday morning after being forward ...

On Being a Spiritual Teacher or Spiritual Artist; On Changing my Name and the Hate Blogs of History: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 21st, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Truth be told, being a spiritual teacher or a spiritual artist in a particularly direct and open way is not at all easy. Your job is to afflict the comfortabl ...