On Eros and Holiness, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part One: Marc Gafni

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I just saw the movie Speed Racer. I want to thank Larry Wachowski and his brother for making the movie. You Rock!

In an email or conversation I had with Larry some two years ago, he told me he had listened with his wonderful wife Karen to the DVD series of lectures that I gave at Naropa University one weekend called “On the Erotic and the Holy”.

He said he was working on a new movie project in which he would incorporate some of those ideas into the movie.

He did. He understood the teaching on a very deep level. He understood not because I taught it to him. He recognized the teaching because he already knew it.

Luzatto, the wonderful kabbalist opens his major work by teaching us that, “All real teaching is but a reminder of what we already know”. But of course we already knew that.

Larry returned the teaching of Eros to me in the movie Speed Racer. Not because he taught it to me, but because like Larry, I already knew it.

But in reminding me of what I already know, filtered through the prism of his unique and open heart, he became my teacher this evening. And for that I am filled with gratitude.

More then that; all of life is a unique teaching, designed in love to remind us of what we already know. Every single thing that happens to us in our lives, without exception, is only to remind us of what we already know. Except, of course, for the exceptions, which are to remind us of Mystery.

Larry; I don’t know what happened at the Box Office. It is hard to beat the Matrix, you know. I saw the movie at the dollar theatre in Salt Lake City.

If it did not bring down the box office it may be because Speed racer was a mystical movie in popular disguise. And people might have gotten lost — as we often do – in the disguise. The disguise was not the plot line.

In the movie — the point was not the plot line which was simple and straightforward; rather Larry designed the movie as an evocation and invitation to Magic and Eros.
To magic which is Eros and to Eros which is Magic.

So thank you. Thank you Thank you. What a gift you gave us.

Marc Gafni

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