Benkapa
: Food, Sex, Love, Art, Music & Enlightenment
: Food, Sex, Love, Art, Music & Enlightenment
Sep 3rd
Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying” is simply one of the best songs ever recorded.
Lyrics Below, Wikipedia info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Time_of_Dying
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Led Zeppelin’s “In My Time of Dying” Lyrics:
(Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
but was originally done by Blind Willie Johnson.
It was also recorded by Josh White in the 30s, and by Bob Dylan on his first album in 1962.
In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home
Well, well, well, so I can die easy (X2)
Jesus, gonna make up my dyin’ bed.
Meet me, Jesus, meet me. Meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord. Please meet me with another pair
Well, well, well, so I can die easy (X2)
Jesus, gonna make up.. somebody, somebody…
Jesus gonna make up… Jesus gonna make you my dyin’ bed
Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven… Won’t you let me in
I never did no harm. I never did no wrong
Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn. Let me blow your horn
Oh, I never did, did no harm.
I’ve only been this young once. I never thought I’d do anybody no wrong
No, not once.
Oh, I did somebody some good. Somebody some good…
Oh, did somebody some good. I must have did somebody some good…
Oh, I believe I did
I see the smiling faces
I know I must have left some traces
And I see them in the streets
And I see them in the field
And I hear them shouting under my feet
And I know it’s got to be real
Oh, Lord, deliver me
All the wrong I’ve done
You can deliver me, Lord
I only wanted to have some fun.
Hear the angels marchin’, hear the’ marchin’, hear them marchin’,
hear them marchin’, the’ marchin’
Oh my Jesus… (repeat)
Oh, don’t you make it my dyin’, dyin’, dyin’…cough
Sep 2nd
Our karma (every thought and ethical motivation) floods out of us every instant and tells us every quality we see in everything and everyone in our world. ∴ If we know this, we are empowered to reverse engineer every part of ourselves/world through analyzing the foundations and mechanics of our thoughts and ethical motivations.
Aug 23rd
at the Santa Barbara Mission, CA
Jan 13th
An Ideal World, Heaven Before We Die.
If creating heaven comes from planting the karmic seeds of a divine experience and from stopping planting seeds of an ordinary world, how far could we push our interpretation of our world into a divine perspective?
(waking, showering, eating, commuting, working, loving, sleeping)
From a golden slumber,
we awaken into heaven
with the thoughts of how to
become the best and sweetest
offering towards every
heavenly creature around us.
The drops of the shower purify us.
Every stain is cleansed.
We are now totally pure
And totally open.
The drops of the shower
Grant every blessing of
Every Buddha, saint and god/dess.
Our soul is quenched
Through and through.
We feel every heart on this planet.
We hear every thought.
All the love and all the wisdom
Is accessible to everyone.
We prepare an offering
Towards every being as a deity,
From ingredients offered by deities
And enjoy it in an enlightened way.
Each taste of divine nectar
Sends waves of bliss and ecstasy to
A paradise of angels within our heart.
That energy then goes out as an offering of gratitude
Towards every other being in paradise.
And they send it all back in a
Never-ending cycle of giving and receiving.
We commute, without moving.
The shapes and colors migrate
As our thoughts shift and
We harmonically dance
Looking though the eyes
Of the Oceans of angels around us.
The subways, freeways, sidewalks
And corridors become dance floors
In a heavenly god and goddess discotheque.
Work becomes a play of
The myriad enlightened
Roles and archetypes
granting and receiving wisdom
With each other.
We join with each other
To bring heaven to everyone
Without exception
Using the most enlightened
Methods that enhance and sustain
The delicate balances within
The life of the mandala
Everywhere and everytime.
Harm and theft are gone as
As a derelict past.
Now unconditional love
Pervades throughout every transaction.
Every interaction causes only heaven.
No rush, no stress,
No goals except enjoying the perfection
Within the unfindable moment of now.
Angels sensitively attract us
Further into heaven.
They catch our eye,
Give a smile, and
Voice some divine mantras,
Which sympathetically resonates with the
Subtle energies within us.
We sing our songs with each other,
Our music reverberating throughout
Our channels with devotion towards
The inconceivable nature of each other.
The lover’s touch encourages us
To surrender into selflessness away
From any ideas of separation or duality
And towards the ever existing union
That always was.
Our union produces more energy
And love than imaginable
Sending us into a deeply
Subtle state of mind
Beyond conception,
Beyond any ‘thing’.
Subject, interaction and object
Become fused into a oneness,
An eternal blissful smile of oneness
That is ultimate Love.
The direct experience without words
Informs us of the underlying
Foundation space of reality
From which every
Construction of every
Story about every thing
In this heaven arises.
We construct relative appearances as
The play of that ultimate nature.
We construct relative words
As the play of that ultimate nature.
We construct relative thoughts
As the play of that ultimate nature.
In the evenings we rest and relax our
Energies into a deeper state of mind.
We dive from the outer heaven
Allowing the everyday mind to absorb
Into the more subtle mind of the dream world.
Exploring and playing within this
Subtle dream reality, we
offer happiness to others,
having fun at play with the morphing nature of things,
Flying, and manifesting whatever
Anyone wishes at will.
From within this subtle dream mind
We peer more deeply into the nature
Of mind and reach that crystalline pure
Transparency of the deepest
And truest part of existence.
Relaxing in that purity.
The I am that.
The not that.
The timeless.
Emptiness.
Oneness.
Not aware of how long,
Or where, or why.
Being love.
We stir.
A subject
Becoming
An object.
And we are born
Into heaven.
Awakening into
The never-ending
Divine play
Once again.
By Benkapa
Dec 12th

Hello beautiful and amazing global human family. My name is Benjamin Worden. Let’s share about food, sex, love, art, music and enlightenment with each other. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email me at benkapa(at)gmail.com.