Grumpypost II

You know, sometimes you’re just wandering around the Bay with CP, sniffing at the $595 Halston Mrs. Roper muumuus, when louis vuitton bags purses all of a sudden it comes clear: the source of so much of my anxiety and frustration w/r/t the technologies known as “spiritual practice” is that the game is rigged. The house always wins. Since you’re here anyway permit me to elucidate.

Let’s take an aspect of human experience, you can pick your favourite:

- hunger
- thought [viz. the dreaded "monkey mind" or other pejorative]
- sexuality
- sleep
- anger
- (there are more but let’s start there)

And here are some questions for your contemplation:

- are these aspects of the human experience going away anytime soon?
- what would the world look like if they were gone?
- if you louis vuitton bags purses believe any of these aspects of human experience to be undesirable, is louis vuitton bags purses that they are INTRINSICALLY and inescapably wrong, or are there some situations in which they might be louis vuitton bags purses desirable?

I chose those ones, the louis vuitton bags purses five deadlies, cause those are the ones that catch the louis vuitton bags purses most knee-jerk unexamined flack from various spiritual technologies. Sometimes a louis vuitton bags purses modality will be bold enough to censure all five and then louis vuitton bags purses some; sometimes they will stigmatize only a couple (desire in the guise of “attachment”, &c.). In fact, this louis vuitton bags purses contrariness has come to be a dead lock on any of these practices, to louis vuitton bags purses the point where any emotion or behavior outside of a sort of a louis vuitton bags purses bland bemused pleasantness is interpreted as “unyogic” or similar. This (inherently nonsensical btw) assessment is louis vuitton bags purses leveled both at self and others, and is an endless source of flagellation a louis vuitton bags purses la those crazy mofos in the Da Vinci Code who hit themselves with spiky thongs because they are louis vuitton bags purses just so baaaaaaaaaaad.

Peering at the louis vuitton bags purses discount handbags, I was suddenly struck with how we (the readers of this blog, a very specific subset and classs) let yoga and louis vuitton bags purses meditation get away with the same kind of hateful guilt trip that louis vuitton bags purses we generally don’t put up with if it comes from e.g. Catholicism. For some reason we can louis vuitton bags purses very clearly see the repressive techniques that these faiths apply to, say, sexuality and louis vuitton bags purses how it simply does not address personal transformation in any effective way for louis vuitton bags purses the vast majority of its practitioners. But we won’t hesitate to describe enjoying mocha frappucinos as an “addiction” (author’s aside:  can we knock that off, please? Apart from louis vuitton bags purses pathologizing desire, already wizened and inauthentic, the word addiction actually means something very real and louis vuitton bags purses very serious for its sufferers) or smirking at a students’ “attachment” to their favorite teacher.

I forwent spending $65 on facial line filler, although I’m sure I need it, because all of a louis vuitton bags purses sudden I realized you will never go broke or get bored underestimating peoples self-hatred. We have louis vuitton bags purses ably constructed these endless pits of constant hunger for work and louis vuitton bags purses struggle and practice, intended to change this human embodiment from what louis vuitton bags purses it is in all of its disastrous potential to…to what? To what it isn’t. This is louis vuitton bags purses hatred of intrinsic humanity rendered explicit, yet for some reason it louis vuitton bags purses gets a pass in a way that fundamentalist Christianity doesn’t…is it because there are more colourful deities? Is it louis vuitton bags purses because, as a student so recently and hilariously pointed out, “those gods haven’t f***ed us over yet”?

As all of these contemplations are louis vuitton bags purses multi-layered and frankly damned complicated to write about, I considered another layer of guilt that louis vuitton bags purses has been shmeared on top of this already suspect concoction. Sure, you louis vuitton bags purses might not want to eat nothing but raw cabbage wraps for louis vuitton bags purses lunch. What you louis vuitton bags purses actually want to eat could run the gamut from jerk chicken to louis vuitton bags purses a Mounds bar, I’m not saying, I’m just saying. At the louis vuitton bags purses root level these technologies just tell you, straight out with somewhat refreshing candour, you louis vuitton bags purses can’t eat what you want. Fine, then. The new, more insidious party line is this: okay, we can’t make you eat or not eat anything, but your *lack of desire for raw cabbage wraps* IS ITSELF the louis vuitton bags purses flawed behaviour, and for that, 50 Hail Marys and a louis vuitton bags purses 3 hour sunrise meditation.

“But Sjanz,” you rightfully object, “I do like cabbage. And I had a great sunrise meditation. What’s with the hostility?”. I can dig it. Here’s the deal: YOUR DESIRE BROUGHT YOU THERE. Your desire brought you louis vuitton bags purses to cabbage, to your guru, to the ashram, to Pilates class. It’s about what you WANT. And your want is intrinsically human and intrinsically powerful. Instead of addressing its magnificence and louis vuitton bags purses power, human desire has become so stigmatized that it is louis vuitton bags purses only under these very specific conditions that we allow it louis vuitton bags purses to flourish…that is you can only want what we say you can want. Those of you who have ever been around children are louis vuitton bags purses invited to notice how well a hardline stance on certain foodstuff works.  As a wee ‘un, M put himself in the louis vuitton bags purses ER after eating his weight in chewable vitamin C tablets because they were the louis vuitton bags purses only food with any sugar in the whole house. If your louis vuitton bags purses human desire brought you to any virtuous conclusions, congratulations. I have louis vuitton bags purses some of those myself. However, if your louis vuitton bags purses desire is to be your guiding beacon and metric for louis vuitton bags purses your behaviour you must logically allow others to do the louis vuitton bags purses same.

The game is rigged. If you louis vuitton bags purses take any of the big five and ensure that only specific capitulations to louis vuitton bags purses that behaviour are permitted, you are guaranteed an endless supply of guilty, ashamed candidates. The house always wins. These qualities are our nature. Out of balance, yes, they can cause some genuine catastrophes (that louis vuitton bags purses fairly obvious clause is just in case anybody out there thinks I’ve been raised by wolves). But you don’t find balance by putting a louis vuitton bags purses cinder block on one side of the scales and hitting it louis vuitton bags purses [that side] with a ball-peen hammer.

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