Enlightenment Orgasm

[DigitalBuddha]

quotes.

Imagination is the ground of the mechanics of potentiality

Perceptual reality serves the doorway to chaos

Self power undertakes boundless mortality

Your consciousness explores exponential possibilities

Is that some kind of Eastern thing?

[Boston Rockbury]

funny thing about BigOne shri Rajnish is that everything you hear about him makes him sound like a nutter and yet i have two really: aware, switched-on and very wise friends who totally love the dude. One is a leading authority on tantric sex, the other is a very successful sanskrit musician. When you hear these people speak they are not credulous or gullible, rather they have a great sense of perspective. Makes me think there must have been something good abut the BigOne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O-WP07Elo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcJDP3b2PU

And your friends "loving the dude" proves....? 

Doesn't exactly prove anything but when people I respect say "this dude's a real dude" maybe it gives credence to the fact there might be something in it.

[Hominid]

funny thing about BigOne shri Rajnish is that everything you hear about him makes him sound like a nutter and yet i have two really: aware, switched-on and very wise friends who totally love the dude. One is a leading authority on tantric sex, the other is a very successful sanskrit musician. When you hear these people speak they are not credulous or gullible, rather they have a great sense of perspective. Makes me think there must have been something good abut the BigOne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O-WP07Elo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcJDP3b2PU

And your friends "loving the dude" proves....? 

Doesn't exactly prove anything but when people I respect say "this dude's a real dude" maybe it gives credence to the fact there might be something in it.

Not to pick on you BR, but I have a very close friend who is an evangelical born again christian. We debate all the time, and we know where we each stand. Doesn't mean I give credence to his belief system, though I love him dearly as a brother. Giving a third party credence is a personal choice...

I liken it to a friend's recommendation for a movie or a place to eat - sometimes they're real flops!

[Boston Rockbury]

funny thing about BigOne shri Rajnish is that everything you hear about him makes him sound like a nutter and yet i have two really: aware, switched-on and very wise friends who totally love the dude. One is a leading authority on tantric sex, the other is a very successful sanskrit musician. When you hear these people speak they are not credulous or gullible, rather they have a great sense of perspective. Makes me think there must have been something good abut the BigOne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O-WP07Elo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcJDP3b2PU

And your friends "loving the dude" proves....? 

Doesn't exactly prove anything but when people I respect say "this dude's a real dude" maybe it gives credence to the fact there might be something in it.

Not to pick on you BR, but I have a very close friend who is an evangelical born again christian. We debate all the time, and we know where we each stand. Doesn't mean I give credence to his belief system, though I love him dearly as a brother. Giving a third party credence is a personal choice...

I liken it to a friend's recommendation for a movie or a place to eat - sometimes they're real flops!

You know what dude, now I think about it you're right.

[DigitalBuddha]

funny thing about BigOne shri Rajnish is that everything you hear about him makes him sound like a nutter and yet i have two really: aware, switched-on and very wise friends who totally love the dude. One is a leading authority on tantric sex, the other is a very successful sanskrit musician. When you hear these people speak they are not credulous or gullible, rather they have a great sense of perspective. Makes me think there must have been something good abut the BigOne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1O-WP07Elo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjcJDP3b2PU

And your friends "loving the dude" proves....? 

Doesn't exactly prove anything but when people I respect say "this dude's a real dude" maybe it gives credence to the fact there might be something in it.

I don't really care what others say about your "Enlightenment Orgasm" buddy. With a person such as that, I prefer to come to my own conclusions independently of other opinions. Myriads of weak minded people have held respect and misguided confidence for a multitude of deceptive idiots in the past and paid a terrible price for doing so. I prefer to do my own thinking, which you should do and not follow some boneheaded self declared "guru" spouting out his spiritual sounding bullshit, in this case mindless crap like "Enlightenment Orgasm," ad infinitum. We really don't need anymore "gurus" preying on gullible people and acting like they have all of the answers for life. In short...piss on the asshole; he's an fucking idiot.

Sorry to be so blunt about it, and with all due respect to your opinion, man, but I just have no time and little patience for fuck head so-called  "gurus." Remember this "guru?" .........



And this one.........



And this one.........



And this one.........



And this one.........



And let us not forget this asshole.........



As always; IMHO.

[forumdude]

The problem with Rajneesh (Osho) is that his words are actually very sober, skeptical, inspiring and broadminded, but his organization, followers, and alleged crimes are all appalling.

I spent a couple weeks on his ashram in Pune, India. It was one of the worst experiences I'd ever had. I lampooned it in my shitty unpublished and unpublishable novel "Big American Breakfast." I've never been more lonely than to be surrounded by thousands of utterly crazy narcissists who gladly paid a relative fortune to participate in idiotic "classes" while at the same time openly disparaging the dirt poor Indians outside of the ashram for not being as spiritually advanced as they were. Also, I never got invited to any of the alleged orgies. Ha ha.

To be honest I haven't read one of his books (they are all transcriptions from his speeches) in a long time. Maybe older me would find them less enjoyable. But the ones I did read were surprisingly free of bullshit. And funny, to boot.

I still remember one of the songs we sang as part of a "music yoga" session. It was so hilariously awful.

So make up your mind to be happy
Life is a merry go round
If you miss out this time
Don't let it freak your mind
Love will work out in the end
Bum bum bum!

We had to hold hands and look into each others' eyes as we sang this. Actually this was the only thing in the two weeks that was kind of light hearted and not totally full of shit.

I found out later that the "guru" I had studied yoga with two months earlier in Nepal was a disaffected disciple of Osho. He took some of the techniques (like laughter yoga and jibberish meditation) and removed all the cult of personality and new age stuff. And he charged very little and had no followers. That was one of the best experiences I've had in my life. Guru just means "teacher." They're not all bad.

[forumdude]

One more thing - I haven't watched the video (still waking up) but I had an extraordinary peak experience while studying yoga and meditation for the first time in Nepal. I literally felt like I was on ecstasy for a full month afterwards. It was inexplicable - as if I'd suddenly excised the part of my mind that created negative feelings. But of course, it came back. And I tried in vain to reproduce the feeling for many years after that and couldn't.

Just saying - there's something to the practices, and sometimes you need a teacher to show you how to do it. But the traditional method of "having a guru" (India) or needing "transmission" from a master (Catholicism, Reiki, Buddhism) poisons the system by infusing it with a power structure that is too easily corrupted.

I'm often a bit uncomfortable in my role as "Dudely Lama" because I'm torn between the necessity of offering some stewardship and embarrassed by the implied arrogance that I'm it's "leader." I trust that you guys will cut me down to size if I lose my mind and start asking for donations on late night TV.

Also, given that most Dudeists are not exactly rich and that 80 percent seem to be guys, I'm not going to be able to squeeze much cash from the flock, nor surround myself with a bevy of fawning nymphs. What the fuck was I thinking?

[Hominid]

One more thing - I haven't watched the video (still waking up) but I had an extraordinary peak experience while studying yoga and meditation for the first time in Nepal. I literally felt like I was on ecstasy for a full month afterwards. It was inexplicable - as if I'd suddenly excised the part of my mind that created negative feelings. But of course, it came back. And I tried in vain to reproduce the feeling for many years after that and couldn't.

Just saying - there's something to the practices, and sometimes you need a teacher to show you how to do it. But the traditional method of "having a guru" (India) or needing "transmission" from a master (Catholicism, Reiki, Buddhism) poisons the system by infusing it with a power structure that is too easily corrupted.

I'm often a bit uncomfortable in my role as "Dudely Lama" because I'm torn between the necessity of offering some stewardship and embarrassed by the implied arrogance that I'm it's "leader." I trust that you guys will cut me down to size if I lose my mind and start asking for donations on late night TV.

Also, given that most Dudeists are not exactly rich and that 80 percent seem to be guys, I'm not going to be able to squeeze much cash from the flock, nor surround myself with a bevy of fawning nymphs. What the fuck was I thinking?

WTF were you thinking is right!  I mean, free vagina?

Kidding aside, it seems to that those of us on a path of enlightenment and self awareness run into these pieces of work who have nuggets of great transformative technology that works great and help us move up to the next plateau, so we get hooked. Then we look for that fix to be repeated. Then we're disillusioned because they can't deliver any more. Think "one trick pony".

Bought the t-shirt.

[DigitalBuddha]

I literally felt like I was on ecstasy for a full month afterwards. It was inexplicable - as if I'd suddenly excised the part of my mind that created negative feelings... a bevy of fawning nymphs.

I often feel the same way upon completing my own version of the "islamic hajj" to my local In-N-Out-Burger. A few burgers, a few beers; my negative feelings are over, dudes. But I'll have admit, have yet to experience a double burger and a jumbo bag of fries while having coitus with "a bevy of fawning nymphs." Though that DOES sound awesome!

Though I'm open to many new experiences, I have so far not felt compiled to circle the In-N-Out-Burger while helping my lady friend conceive, man.

All kidding aside; one thing I dig about Dudeism is that it is, more or less, an open field yet to be developed. But then again, I hope it is never actually "developed" and remains always open to new ideas, new ways of doing things and respects the experiences of all peoples.

In respects to "enlightened orgasm;" I still jerk off manually, wouldn't have it any other way.

Those are good burgers, Walter!........



Behold, my idea of a Burger Guru.......

[DigitalBuddha]

One more thing - I haven't watched the video (still waking up) but I had an extraordinary peak experience while studying yoga and meditation for the first time in Nepal. I literally felt like I was on ecstasy for a full month afterwards. It was inexplicable - as if I'd suddenly excised the part of my mind that created negative feelings. But of course, it came back. And I tried in vain to reproduce the feeling for many years after that and couldn't.

Just saying - there's something to the practices, and sometimes you need a teacher to show you how to do it. But the traditional method of "having a guru" (India) or needing "transmission" from a master (Catholicism, Reiki, Buddhism) poisons the system by infusing it with a power structure that is too easily corrupted.

I'm often a bit uncomfortable in my role as "Dudely Lama" because I'm torn between the necessity of offering some stewardship and embarrassed by the implied arrogance that I'm it's "leader." I trust that you guys will cut me down to size if I lose my mind and start asking for donations on late night TV.

Also, given that most Dudeists are not exactly rich and that 80 percent seem to be guys, I'm not going to be able to squeeze much cash from the flock, nor surround myself with a bevy of fawning nymphs. What the fuck was I thinking?

WTF were you thinking is right!  I mean, free vagina?

"Free vagina" I dig your style, dude!

[RighteousDude]

I've never been more lonely than to be surrounded by thousands of utterly crazy narcissists who gladly paid a relative fortune to participate in idiotic "classes" while at the same time openly disparaging the dirt poor Indians outside of the ashram for not being as spiritually advanced as they were.

That's what happens when something like religion has something like a leader. Every damned time. A guy can work the angles can make a comfortable living and gain a lot of ego gratification in the spiritual tourism trade, whether he's in India, Jerusalem, Vatican City, Guyana, Sedona, or even Roswell. Or on the teevee. If you see The Buddha on a web site...

I dunno, man. It seems to me that if you need a boarding pass to find your spirituality you're doing something wrong. But that's just my opinion and I'm often wrong. Either way, I find mine close to home and often right here in my desk chair. Works for me. Your mileage may very.

[DigitalBuddha]

I've never been more lonely than to be surrounded by thousands of utterly crazy narcissists who gladly paid a relative fortune to participate in idiotic "classes" while at the same time openly disparaging the dirt poor Indians outside of the ashram for not being as spiritually advanced as they were.

That's what happens when something like religion has something like a leader. Every damned time. A guy can work the angles can make a comfortable living and gain a lot of ego gratification in the spiritual tourism trade, whether he's in India, Jerusalem, Vatican City, Guyana, Sedona, or even Roswell. Or on the teevee. If you see The Buddha on a web site...

I dunno, man. It seems to me that if you need a boarding pass to find your spirituality you're doing something wrong. But that's just my opinion and I'm often wrong. Either way, I find mine close to home and often right here in my desk chair. Works for me. Your mileage may very.

I recently had an email discussion with a good friend of mine on crazy religions and Islam also came up. He had mentioned that a Muslim, in a debate he had online in a chat room, had used the sheer size of Islam, a billion plus followers, to "prove it was a fact" (as if that is proof of anything).

I told him he should tell his Muslim buddy that we have a saying in America which goes like this... "Eat shit; because ten billion flies can't be wrong!"

[Zen Dog]

One more thing - I haven't watched the video (still waking up) but I had an extraordinary peak experience while studying yoga and meditation for the first time in Nepal. I literally felt like I was on ecstasy for a full month afterwards. It was inexplicable - as if I'd suddenly excised the part of my mind that created negative feelings. But of course, it came back. And I tried in vain to reproduce the feeling for many years after that and couldn't.

Just saying - there's something to the practices, and sometimes you need a teacher to show you how to do it. But the traditional method of "having a guru" (India) or needing "transmission" from a master (Catholicism, Reiki, Buddhism) poisons the system by infusing it with a power structure that is too easily corrupted.

I'm often a bit uncomfortable in my role as "Dudely Lama" because I'm torn between the necessity of offering some stewardship and embarrassed by the implied arrogance that I'm it's "leader." I trust that you guys will cut me down to size if I lose my mind and start asking for donations on late night TV.

Also, given that most Dudeists are not exactly rich and that 80 percent seem to be guys, I'm not going to be able to squeeze much cash from the flock, nor surround myself with a bevy of fawning nymphs. What the fuck was I thinking?

ILLUSIONS.The adventures of a reluctant messiah by Richard Bach may add to your perspective.And another thing.For the peasants outside the Ashram,keeping body and soul in the same general location is probably considered more important than improving said soul.IMO it is up to the more advanced to show kindness and consideration to the less well off.Rug Pissers excepted of course.

[meekon5]

Years ago i used to suffer from eczema, I once scratched myself so hard i nearly came, does that count?

[Boston Rockbury]

Years ago i used to suffer from eczema, I once scratched myself so hard i nearly came, does that count?

No