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Eros and Holiness: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
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 ...
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
[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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
[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 ...
The Wounds of Love: A two year journey of pain, love and liberation: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com What I Have Done During the Past Two Years When a tragedy takes place, we seek to understand it. It is in understanding that we find some measure of comfort and safety. ...
Reading Psalms and the Wounds of Love: Marc Gafni
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com For me the way through the hardest of times of the last two years came from the book of Psalms. I tried meditation, taking refuge in the Buddha, as my colleag ...
The Wounds of Love: Marc Gafni: Part Ten
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com As I move forward, dear friends, I’d like to share a few final reflections about the last two years and the explosion that led up to it. For the past tw ...
Wounds of Love: Marc Gafni: Part Nine
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com There were times, and not a few, when I felt thrown out of all places. One Friday evening in Salt Lake, I went with my friend Dalit and her two children to ea ...