Love, Lust & Raw Enlightenment.... Revised Intro to the Book.... Fun

Love, Lust & Raw Enlightenment:

This is a book about enlightenment.

No, wait, this is a book about great sex.

No, wait, this is a book about being a great friend to that person who is driving you crazy—your partner.

No, wait, this is a book about being a great friend to another person who is driving you crazy—yourself.

No, wait, this book is about eating enough raw food to lose all the weight you want, and feel at least ten years younger

No, wait, this book is about moving with awareness and learning and pleasure in a way that gets you moving and feeling twenty years younger

No, wait, this is a book about sex that gets you feeling 22 again

No, wait, this is a book about merging great sex and great love and great service to Humanity and to the Earth

No, wait, this is a book about meaningful talking—every day.

No, wait, this is a book about vulnerable truth every day.

No, wait, this is a book about eating raw to get younger and juicier and sexier as you so called grow “older.”

No, wait, this is a book about Fun, Forgiveness, Friendship and F…ing. 

Yeah, that’s the ticket: this is a book about sex/love/love sex every day.

Every day?

That’s crazy.

Life is crazy. Crazy, slippery, slidey, changy, whirling, twirling, messy.

This book is about the messy wonder of life. And your diving into it.

No, wait, this is a book about connection.

Ah, connection. 

Connection. Ah, yes. Connection.

This book is about wonderful & fabulous connection, every day, about awakened touching every day, about awakened talking every day, ( AND, yes, yes, YES, eventually, about awakened sex every day) 

(( And not just sex, but the best sex you’ve ever had, no matter how old you are. Take it from a 71 year old odd and happily weird old fart (((who uses zero medication including zero viagra)) and who is in the hottest relationship of his life with his 67 year old lover/ wife and love of his life, Carol: THE BEST SEX YOU’VE EVER HAD IS WAITING FOR YOU!!!! 

…. Every Day! ))

And it can’t be all about ourselves, no matter HOW great sex, love, lust and health are. The world’s a mess. We ARE going to make a huge difference in the world, if our lives are going to be meaningful.

Great sex isn’t just the delightful romp it’s meant to be. It’s the recharge so we can have a smile all up and down our bodies as we create success in all our relationships and all our business and in all our SERVICE TO THE WORLD.

So, no more waiting. This is it. Smile now and sense your breathing, now, and think of two things you are grateful for. This is a book of action , now, as you create joyously and even more deeply meaningful life that is, with a partner, making a huge difference in the world.

A huge difference? Yes.

Don’t just read that. Say, “Yes!” loudly.

Making a huge difference—-Yes!

Hey, that’s so fun, let’s

Shout out YES after each phrase

Great Sex —-Yes!

Great Talk —-Yes!

Great Health —-Yes!

Moving better than we have for years —- Yes!

Eating better and feeling better than we have in years — Yes!

Making a huge difference in the World —-Yes!

Fun —-Yes!

Forgiveness —-Yes!

Friendship —-Yes!

F…ing with Huge Love —-Yes!

Ongoing happiness —-Yes!

Awakened Life —-Yes!

This book is about the Yes! of life.

—Yes!

This book is about diving deep down together into the murky marvelous mess, the slippery whirling wonder of life, and creating together a fabulous relationship that feels a little bit like enlightenment and tastes a lot like heaven.

—Yes!

Please sing along, you know the tune…

Heaven, ta dat dat ta dat da

I’m in heaven ta dat dat ta dat da 

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak

And I seem to find the happiness I seek,

When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek

Heaven is our destination.

Yes! And, it gets even better: heaven is our pathway to heaven.

Heaven.

Yes, heaven, ta dat dat ta dat da is the way to

heaven, ta dat dat ta dat da

Being present is heaven.

Real listening is heaven.

Really being listened to is heaven

Speaking from presence and truth and vulnerability is heaven

Falling more and more in love every day is heaven.

Real touch—dancing cheek to cheek, your arm being stroked, your neck being kissed, your this being licked, your that being sucked, your this being lightly stroked, your this in their that, or their that in your this—ah, this is heaven.

Ella and Louis wouldn’t lie to us, would they?

And if heaven’s our destination and our magic carpet ride to heaven, let’s jump onto some magic carpets that can change your talk, and your loving, and your sex, and your business life and your golf, which is to say: everything.

Gratitude, 

Being Present in our Bodies, 

Moving with Awakened Pleasure and Learning

Mindfulness Day 7: What about Heaven?

 

What about heaven?

Heaven is our natural state. When we are

Present
and honestly present and so
no words pulled in from the past storage banks, just

Now &

Now &

Now

So today, try this: be mindful of how soothing and pleasant it is
to “just”

Be

Be in your breathing if you wish

Be in sensing arms and legs and fingers and toes

Be in sensing your spine

Be light coming in and

Sound coming in

If that pleases and amuses you

(Bach, when asked about why he composed thousands of works of music and had umpteen children, said:

“For my own amusement and the

glory of God.”
Pretty good, eh?)

Just Be

Enjoy the ease of that

and here’s the deal: when unhappiness or discomfort or annoyance or any of that

Shit

Sneaks in

Smile and look for the “should” or “shouldn’t” in your thinking

This is the next stage in mindfulness, of course<

Be in the body

Be in the breath

Sense look and listen

And then watch thoughts, especially the “should” and “shouldn’t”
so called “thoughts (auditory hallucinations) try to steal our

Real selves away

and who and what is our real self?

find out this heaven in the quiet of real now
and when your mind thoughts up,
like a mirror fogging up,
notice:

Ah, unhappiness,
Ah, “should” or “shouldn’t” thought

Then maybe come back to reality

Enjoy

Awakened Christianity: the baby and the bathwater there

I haven't posted a long time
in my Awakened Christianity blog,
and only a few people have looked at it

And
the mystical universe being what it
is
someone of high intelligence
and good
heart
crossed my path
in the night
and we talked of these things:

the baby and the bathwater of Christianity:


The bathwater
nonsense
demeaning aspects that make this fine possible religion
a burden to people's minds, hearts and souls:


ONE:
The idea of death as the "bad guy"
as if it's okay for the carrot to die
for us to eat it
and the bird to die after flying around
and glorifying the world in song
for its span on this beautiful planet
and it's okay for the summer to die into the fall die into the winter die into the spring

but
people can't die

so, you have to be afraid of it
or allow yourself to be afraid of it
or , the real thing: don't inquire about
the fear
and since "everyone" knows death is bad/ scary/ to be avoid/ the worst
people
accept,
like good sheep,
yeah, yeah, death = bad

and the essay on why be fearless and even happy
and excited at the prospect of eventual death,
that's another one

but for now,
the death as big
deal
and then the whole
pivoting of everything on Jesus' dying
as a big
deal

but, hey, folks,
death is what people do,
if Jesus wants to do the human thing,
die He must

on a cross is severe, no doubt,
and so is liver cancer and burn victim car crash
and having your head bashed in by your neighbors
during the genocide in Rwanda

death can be less pleasant than going to sleep
at night
or
it can be just the same

and I degress
a bit,
(not really, it all fits together,
just have fun with it,
let your own examinations of what "they" say,
be a source of endless amusement and freedom
for
you)

TWO, in the bathwater: BRIBERY
it's as if Christians allow themselves to be big
versions of little children
who
if they are good, and Santa knows,
yes, Santa knows,
they get presents
and if they are bad,
they get no presents

but worse, meaner awful really,
as if any God based on love and understanding
wants to send people to Hell

but anyway: this deal,
making life a big good get ticket to heaven
bad, get punished go to hell
is demeaning to what it really means to be human

and dumb
to the actuality:
when people are living out of love and the present
their lives are hell
so they don't have to wait until after death

THREE: EXCLUSIVITY,
as if God doesn't want as many avenues to Her or Him or It
as possible
and the Christian insistence that it's "my way or the highway" ( to hell,
to boot)
reduces a beautiful religion to the level of Go Seahawks, or Go Cowboys,
my team is the winning team

alas,
so
why bother:

because
"The kingdom of heaven is within"
right now

"Let he who is sinless cast the first stone"
perhaps the best spiritual story of all times

"Love your enemy"
easy to say, supposedly hard to do,
and until you and I and everyone learns it,
we are in hell

and it's not that hard,
just get real about what the un-loving is doing to your heart,
mind, guts and soul

or,
if you want some help,
jump on in with Katie:
thework.com

and you don't need the books,
but the titles get you thinking
about what a real world of God consciousness
might be:
Loving What Is



I Need Your Love: Is that true?

A Thousand Names for Joy
this the rendering by Stephen Mitchell once more of the tao ti ching, and Katie's take on what life as an awakened one/ master is about, pretty great