{"id":3231,"date":"2011-10-24T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2022-11-01T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:35:18","slug":"the-nuns-teach-him-tantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"The Nuns teach him Tantra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=3223\" rel=\"prev\">&lArr; Hilbert&#8217;s Hotel<\/a>&emsp;<a href=\"?p=3251\" rel=\"next\">The Channel\u2019s Gig &rArr;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/yabyum.jpg\" class=\"rightbox\" alt=\"yab yum\" title=\"yab yum\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cIf I\u2019m not alone, then who are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I suppose you want an explanation? You can think of it as channeling. I used to be abbot of a great monastery in Tibet, not so long ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, no one ever channels the charwoman. I suppose you have a story to tell?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t make light of it. We were the most sought after monastery. Only highly intelligent, unblemished males were accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was the big draw?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe taught the most advanced Tantric practices. We partnered with a nunnery down the road for joint exercises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I see. You were Hugh Hefner of Lhasa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHardly. We weren\u2019t permitted to derive any pleasure from the practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bet it took a lot of practice to overcome all desire.\u201d I was quite skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue, we practiced quite diligently. Until \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil what?\u201d He was finally grabbing my attention.<br \/>\n<!--more Please click to continue &rArr; --><br \/>\n\u201cUntil that German expedition in 1944. Their researches had led them to believe in the hollow earth. They thought the entrance way was near our monastery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you know why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, things were not going well in the war. They were looking for a place for all the upper level Nazis to escape to. There were a lot of ancient legends that led them to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo how did that affect you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one fellow named Hans, a mathematician, whom we put up in the monastery. He brought a lot of material with him \u2013 treatises on quantum physics and mathematics. Interested in the Buddhist teachings, he taught us physics and math in exchange. Eventually, all the young novices became fascinated with the paradoxes of quantum physics, the recently published G&ouml;del\u2019s theorem, transfinite numbers, Hilbert\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid that become a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the monks lost interest in the traditional teachings and began neglecting their Tantric practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWow. Hans must have been quite charismatic. Why was that a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suppose it wasn\u2019t for us. However, the nuns felt neglected and became quite irritable. When the abbess complained to the Dalai Lama, the investigation led to the termination of my position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what happened to Hans?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, Hans. He built a small hermitage within walking distance of the nunnery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas that so he could teach quantum physics to the nuns?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNah. It was so they could teach him Tantra.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"?p=3223\" rel=\"prev\">&lArr; Hilbert&#8217;s Hotel<\/a>&emsp;<a href=\"?p=3251\" rel=\"next\">The Channel\u2019s Gig &rArr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOh, I see. You were Hugh Hefner of Lhasa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHardly. We weren\u2019t permitted to derive any pleasure from the practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bet it took a lot of practice to overcome all desire.\u201d I was quite skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrue, we practiced quite diligently. Until \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil what?\u201d He was finally grabbing my attention.<br \/>\n <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-hyperborean-saga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13197,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/13197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}