Checks and balances...

[Guest guest]

Dear Tony,

 

You wrote to Angelique:

> I seem to remember getting the boot off your list for a difference in

> theology. What kind of freedom of speech is that?

 

Right , Tony.

I know I was sometimes bastardly critical of you, but my God, did I ever

want you to stay on that list !!! And not to clobber you... although you

were so nicely 'cloberable' :-)

> If people want to behave like the monkeys they are, rather than the

> humans they can become, then its their karma. As long as children and

> other monkeys that want to be human aren't given 'attachments', by the

> diversions of pornography, and it doesn't encourage molestation by

> perverts.

 

True. I have been thinking all day how to phrase my feelings on this and you

are saying quite a bit of it here. Except I would not have used the word

"monkeys."

> There has to be absolute controls, if that isn't possible

> then it should all be banned.

 

Of course neither measure is absolutely possible... so we muddle on... with

the present 'checks and balances'.

> Most of the socalled tantra is just

> distorted crap of the original teaching

> by horny old bastards looking

> for another reason to get it off....

 

True, I would have added some compassion, dispassion and understanding to

that paragraph though.

But then you wrote it, they are your words, and I appreciate them.. as I

think I know what you mean to say.

 

Although Kundalini and Tantra have a lot to do with creative energy

(pro-creativity, re-creativity, recreation and creativity), the potential of

manipulation, perversion and hurt is there... and very often even seemingly

inflicted on oneself without knowing the deeper causes for it.

 

I think that is taking care of business, somehow the 'checks and

balances' were activated.

We ourselves on a personal level have to think gently and sternly about

whatever is harming exploitive perversion. That is by no means easy... there

are shifting standards.

 

At one point taking a bath in the nude was considered a perversion.

 

Love,

Wim