Let’s have a moment to do a gutcheck.
Just like any intention to pursue any path – including Sacred Whoring – one MUST be sure what one’s motivation is. If I whore myself out to be a doormat, or to simply get my rocks off, or to validate my own attractiveness, or for competition…..all these examples come from a place of self-cherishing. And in Tibetan Buddhism, the aim is to be anything BUT self-cherishing. To have such motivation behind one’s actions results in being unskillful and clumsy to varying degrees.
No, my motivation as a Sacred Whore is as of the Bodhisattva. I seek nothing for myself, but to liberate you, and to bring you happiness.
To cherish the self, when it is viewed in our tradition that there is no inherent self that exists on it’s own side, is to continue on the hamster wheel of samsara. We get so attached to the ego, but the realities of our mortal and sexual nature provide us potent (and risky) oppportunities to transcend our ego. Sex and death, creation and dissolution, merging and liberation – ultimately I contemplate heavily on both in my Whoredom. But I also seek to contemplate on both with the same courageous selflessness that a mother would have when she must rescue her infant from the inside of a burning house.
THIS is the kind of selflessness that I am talking about. It is strong, brave, and moral. I’ve heard of criticism from others about this approach to “self-cherishing”, and that in our culture, seeking to abolish it amounts to reducing our dignity. Nothing could be further from the truth. Reduing our own dignity or worth is STILL being self-absorbed – albeit it’s being self-absorbed with more angst and tears.
Sacred Whoredom is not your typical street-walker by any means. It is not even your typical high-priced escort. These emanations are culturally encapsulated in certain causes and conditions where women are abused and degraded by society, by pimps, by madams, and by their patrons. No, a Sacred Whore approaches sex with the highest and most noble motivation without care for self-cherishing concerns like money or status.
To put it bluntly, a Sacred Whore opens the door to Nirvana for her consorts.
Am sure u have read “Women who run with wolves” ?
:anuj.
Wow – thats quite a theory. It reminds me of a goddess in the vodoun/santeria religion I practice, Erzulie or Ochun is the sacred whore and the sacred virgin. She loves unselfishly. Unconditionally. She has many affairs. But she’s a bad bitch too – she doesnt take being disrespected well and carries a dagger at her waist. There are those who simply cant appreciate unconditional love like the love explained here. There are those who seek only to take advantage of it and feed off it like a parasite. There are BAD people in this world for which love does not exist – you cannot and will not change them with all the sacred whoring your body has to offer girls. Those people should be taught a thing or two… sacred whoredom can and does work both ways in my world.
I believe in the sacred whore. They have been on earth since the beginning. Sometimes I think about a lady of the evening to live with me and keep me company and she can go out to work. I enjoy staying at home and keeping busy studying and doing research listening to music.