Negative Polarity & BDSM

[Riveroflight]

I completely agree with you.. Tao Te Ching's writings are some of my favorite and have been since I was very small. I have a copy of it on my desk now, and quote from it often.

That makes two of us! :-)

"Well, since Ra says I need to experience this to my heart's extent so that I can eventually let it fall to the side of the road.."

I have just learned in my own spiritual quest that "do's and don'ts" is a very destructive approach to spirituality. It's that guilt trip that the Abrahamic religions are so famous for. I remember well how guilty I felt just by walking into church, with those fire and brimstone preachers. You are guilty for being born, guilty for existing. Alan Watts said it so well, that those religions made people feel as if they are here on probation. That "how dare you?" approach that they have. "How dare you come in?" "Who do you think you are?"

That's why the churches are empty, because people are sick and tired of being made to feel guilty, diminished and worthless, rather than being made to feel and know that they are entities of infinite worth. Spirituality is fun. I remember the first time I read the Ra material, I read that sentence over and over (the one about infinite worth), thanks to Christianity and the guilt trip!

Right, right.. Okay, my standards must be so annoyingly high because the "don'ts" in life have always been such sheer common sense for me. I don't have to work at them, as they're just effortless because its my natural state of being. When I come into contact with these things, I almost vomit from shock. That includes most things in the music industry, and hollywood for that matter. Illusions heavily repulse me and I am constantly questioning how I got on this planet. I was sort of born into this incarnation with exceptionally high expectations of others, and I didn't get it from my parents. One could say that's a "controlling" issue, but it honestly isn't. I've always had problems conceiving of why people struggle with the things they do. But perhaps I need to understand that most don't find these things effortless and its a constant struggle to live in purity for many. My boyfriend and I now are on the verge of breaking up because I literally will not live with some one who has to turn to dark themes for their entertainment every time my back is turned..

And I agree, religion is heavily heavily distorting truth and how fun it can be to 'grow' spiritually. Though, I guess "growing pains" are real too and people have to be willing to go through them instead of shying away from great intimacy with the source.