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Flex Mentallo

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  1. Flex Mentallo
    Got any photos? I'll post some soon...I need to upload them. Great - I've been hoping you would.
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    Got any photos?
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    People come from all over the world for that very reason. But they say it is to experience the existential nature of the statuary.
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    My pleasure.
  5. Flex Mentallo
    This is the book it's from. That's one of the best copies I've seen. When I first read Venus #19 I could not make sense of it. Who was she? Why was a love goddess in a horror comic? Because of Marvel we'd become accustomed to "continuity". The idea that stories could just be cooked up at random and stood alone felt quite alien. Now it feels cherish-able.
  6. Flex Mentallo
    I for one love the existential use of color in Fawcett horror - and most of their artists were really strong. Thanks for posting BOOT! I only have the splash page of this one from Unknown Worlds #1. I like it even more than the cover!
  7. Flex Mentallo
    It is, in a word, innocent.
  8. Flex Mentallo
    The experience of life becomes luminous and clear. Yoga is not philosophy. It is more like swimming. Through mutual adoration lovemaking becomes a ritual dance, performed unashamedly in public. It is holy joy.
  9. Flex Mentallo
    It was not to experience love but to become it. (Ek-stasis means, literally, to stand outside, to be liberated from the bondage of oneself.)
  10. Flex Mentallo
    They did not hide ecstasy in the dark. The sexual act was in no way shameful. They recognized it as positive and life sustaining, as celebration, as immanence.
  11. Flex Mentallo
    The state of awareness sought through the practice of Yoga is ecstatic, insofar as it is a loss of self but not awareness.
  12. Flex Mentallo
    Life - our experience of it - fragments. Only our symbols remain real to us, mediating between us and the reality from which we are therefore apart. It is as though we had become lost. The alien gains access from within.
  13. Flex Mentallo
    In our civilization mental silence is almost non-existent. But unrelieved thinking turns everything into objects, including ourselves.
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    We give names to forms. Give them other names; they remain as before. But what through naming we may be led to conceive of as separate, is in reality a continuum from which we are not separate.
  15. Flex Mentallo
    In order to transcend Maya we must silence the mind. "Citta vritti nirodha", which means "being aware without thinking."
  16. Flex Mentallo
    Our minds insist on separateness. This separateness is false. When we confuse reality with the separate name forms we ascribe to its multiplicity we are trapped in Maya, what the Hindus refer to as "the world illusion".
  17. Flex Mentallo
    The Hindu way is to strive to experience reality much as a new born child, to let go of ideas, to become unselfconscious.
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    Instead, the focus is on immediate experience, not ideas. It is about not confusing what we conceive with what we perceive. Because conception is a barrier to perception. The reality about which we form ideas is not itself an idea. It is an experience.
  19. Flex Mentallo
    To think of Hinduism as an eastern religion corresponding to Christianity is a misconception. For example, Hinduism is not about establishing beliefs or conceptions to be held as Truth.
  20. Flex Mentallo
    In the Weltanshauung or world view of Ancient India, the function of erotic statuary - which would originally have been brilliantly colored like the Shri Meenakshi Temple of Madurai shown below - was neither symbolic nor erotic alone, but rather both in equal measure.
  21. Flex Mentallo
    "Energy is eternal delight." William Blake
  22. Flex Mentallo
    And that means many times more "naughty bits". And it is these erotic sculptures I'd like to try to explain.
  23. Flex Mentallo
    Like Konarak, they are a World Heritage site. But where Konarak is singular, there are over 20 temples in Kajuraho.
  24. Flex Mentallo
    As Duffman says, they are reminiscent of Konarak, and though better preserved are in fact several hundred years older.
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    Once, long ago, Kajuraho was a thriving community. But it is now a hot, dusty hamlet in the middle of nowhere, with a couple of hotels and restaurants to accommodate the visitors who come to view the temple complexes. If I remember right, it has an airport, but I got there by bus - a seemingly interminable, rickety ten hour journey from Bhopal.