Ar but of course but there is definitely something
spiritual about sex and orgasm.
What is holy is not sex itself. It is that in having an orgasm,
there is suddenly a gap between two dualistic state of seeking, or
between two thoughts, where Consciousness experiences Itself as
Itself. This is what is spiritual. This is in contrast to the usual
dualistic state of seeking where there is a projection of 'me'
separate from a perceived desirable/undesirable object, and then
the 'me' must chase after or get rid of the 'object'. However if we
recognise non-dual consciousness, there is just Self-Aware
Consciousness which is itself bliss and peace. And it is bliss and
peace surpassing all you have ever experienced or will ever
understand in our ordinary dualistic mind. And actually this is
possible at any moment and is not just in sex.
True bliss cannot be found in any particular experience, but in
the gap that certain experiences temporarily opens up to the
possibility for Consciousness to experience its true face. Thus we
should never chase after experiences, since it is not the
experience that is the source of bliss, but the gap and possibility
the experience opens up to for Consciousness to experience Itself.
But we should also not come to depend on having certain
experiences, like mountain climbing, jumping from a plane, engaging
in other dangerous or intense acts, or having orgasm, etc, to enter
into the state of Presence and bliss. It is not required, though
such acts may open a door to that experience. For most people
however, after that experience they go back into unconscious
seeking, and fails to understand that the peace and happiness is
actually not found 'outside' but is inherent in one's own
Consciousness. They fail to understand that they have never been
separated from that bliss and peace which is the qualities of
primordial intrinsic Awareness, that it is always by nature already
non-dual.
http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/dying.html
According to
this tradition, the clear light is the most subtle, profound, and
powerful level of consciousness. Indeed, it is the fundamental
nature of the mind itself, whose appearance is said to be like the
sky's own natural cast at dawn before sunrise, its brilliance
radiating everywhere in all directions. This mind of radiant clear
light is indestructible and untainted by the emotional and
psychological confusions that perpetuate the ongoing cycle of birth
and death (samsara). We are told that the clear light is
experienced briefly by all human beings at the very first moment of
death, by advanced yogic practitioners in the highest states of
meditation, and unceasingly by all Buddhas. Interestingly enough,
this very subtle radiance is said also to be
experienced,
though rarely noticed, in more mundane moments, such as fainting,
sneezing, and orgasm, as well as in the first instant before and
after dreaming. However, only at the moment of
death is the conscious and unwavering realization of the clear
light tantamount to the achievement of Buddhahood.
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Rupert Spira:
Most activities are governed by the desire for Happiness.
Happiness is a non-objective experience. It is simply the presence
of Consciousness.
As Consciousness is by nature conscious, it could be said
that Happiness is the experience of Consciousness knowing itself
knowingly.
It is the experience that is revealed every time a desire
comes to an end. Desire is agitation and Happiness is the
ever-present background of all states that is revealed when this
agitation ceases.
Of course, it is also present during the agitation itself as
it is the background of all states, but it is not experienced as
such.
This desire for Happiness does not come from memory.
Happiness cannot be remembered for it has no objective qualities.
It is inherent in Consciousness, which in its unmanifest condition
is objectless, such as in the experience of deep sleep.
Consciousness cannot be experienced as an object and
therefore cannot be remembered. However, it is always present and
therefore whatever is inherent in it must also be
ever-present.
The current object is continually changing but the desire
for Happiness always remains the same. Therefore, Happiness cannot
be caused by the object that is present.
Likewise the experience of Happiness is always the same
irrespective of the object that seems to deliver, so the object
itself cannot be the aim of the search for Happiness.
Once it is understood that Happiness cannot be a memory, it
has to be concluded that the desire for Happiness comes from the
current experience itself, even if the experience is unpleasant.
Where else could it come from?
However, it is not from the objective aspect of the current
experience that Happiness is sought. It is from the knowing or
experiencing aspect.
The fact that Happiness is sought in such a wide variety of
objects and activities indicates the intuition that Happiness
resides in the knowing and experiencing aspects of an experience or
an object, in the Consciousness aspect, not in the objective
aspect, because the knowing or experiencing aspect of all
experiences is always the same.
However, the knowing and experiencing aspect of experience
is veiled by the name and the form of the experience, and therefore
we keep looking for Happiness in new and different
objects.
in fact our engagement with objects is, in most cases,
precisely for the purpose of unveiling the Peace and Happiness that
is inherent in every experience. However, we wrongly assign Peace
and Happiness to the objective aspect of the experience.
Our exclusive focus on the objective aspect of the
experience veils this Happiness. However, failing to notice that
Happiness is in fact already present, we search elsewhere for it.
We search for it in a new situation, in a new object.
In fact even the desire for Happiness comes from Happiness
itself.
Desire is the form of Happiness. It is the shape that
Happiness itself takes when it overlooks its own presence and
begins to search for itself elsewhere.
It is Happiness itself that seeks itself.
We are already what we seek.
What governs the type of object in which we search for
Happiness will depend on the objects that, in the past, immediately
preceded the non-objective experience of Happiness.
Unlike Happiness itself, these objects can be remembered and
so we try to reproduce them in the hopes that they will deliver the
same Happiness.
Once this is clearly seen, the nature of desire changes
radically. An object is no longer desired in order to produce
Happiness but rather to express it.
Once desire is liberated from the requirement to
produce Happiness, it does not disappear. It is simply liberated
from the confines of serving a non-existent entity.
Desire as such is experienced as energy, as life. It is
already its own fulfillment.