ps. on yesterdays blogs… The goal is to commit adultery with your wife. I know literally tens of spiritual teachers who have at one time or another not succeeded in this goal. I know tens of spiritual teachers – those very same ones ̵ ...
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The Fall of Eros: Marc Gafni
However we cannot live in non erotic world. So unconsciously we seek compensation. We look to get our erotic fix in the sexual. But this doesn’t work either. For when you de-eroticize all of the world except sex, then the sexual collapses as well. ...
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 ...
Marc Gafni – ON BETRAYAL
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The result of non-erotic living is always bad choices, betrayals and pain. I am not in the flow. I wind up always having to watch my back. I am on the outside — exiled f ...
Freeing My soul from the Trauma of Death in Life is the same process as freeing Souls from a Traumatic Death: Marc Gafni on the road from Warsaw to Lublin
Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Comments welcome on info@marcafni.com Today we were in Maidanek, Lublin and arrived for Shabbat in Krakow. About Maidanek Lublin after shabbot. A word before sundown. The purpose of our trip is to participate in an ...
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, 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 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 ...
Wounds of Love: Marc Gafni: Part Eight
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com When my life was devastated with personal tragedy two years ago, I made a commitment―together with a close friend―not to “do anything.” I wi ...
The Wounds of Love
[english] 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 two years, I have not been able to go more than a short time without being overwhelm ...