{"id":491,"date":"2009-03-16T13:27:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/03\/one-taste-really-isnt-that-a-little-too-tongue-in.html"},"modified":"2009-03-16T13:27:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T13:27:55","slug":"one-taste-really-isnt-that-a-little-too-tongue-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/03\/one-taste-really-isnt-that-a-little-too-tongue-in.html","title":{"rendered":"One Taste? Really? Isn’t that a little too tongue in …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zeitgeist indicator The New York Times Styles Section has lately been fairly awesome in covering two subjects near and dear to my heart: mindfulness and female sexuality.\u00a0 (Although in both cases \u2013 it\u2019s kind of lame to call them \u2018styles\u2019.\u00a0 Skinny jeans: a style.\u00a0 Women enjoying sex? Hopefully not as temporary.\u00a0 I\u2019m just saying).
\nThis week they profile the San Francisco, \u201cOne Taste Urban Retreat Center,\u201d a center dedicated to what they call a \u2018meditation\u2019 that focuses specifically on bringing a woman to orgasm.
\nFrom the article:
\nAt 7 a.m. each day, as the rest of America is eating Cheerios or trying to face gridlock without hyperventilating, about a dozen women, naked from the waist down, lie with eyes closed in a velvet-curtained room, while clothed men huddle over them, stroking them in a ritual known as orgasmic meditation \u2014 \u201cOMing,\u201d for short. The couples, who may or may not be romantically involved, call one another \u201cresearch partners.\u201d<\/em>
\nMindful sex is good.\u00a0 I dare say it\u2019s an important, fun way for a layperson Buddhist to, uh, practice.\u00a0 And while the founder of One City<\/span>Taste has a Buddhist background, she doesn\u2019t claim that OMing is dharmic.\u00a0 I also really liked the report from the Silicon Valley engineer that participating at the center helped him concentrate better at work.\u00a0 Sounds win-win.\u00a0 Lastly and obviously, sex is potent, and all our potent experiences can be used for our life work toward awakening.
\nHowever if Julia May Jonas had a crystal ball, she would predict that in our catch-phrase-oriented culture, \u2018meditation\u2019 is going to start getting applied more and more to all sorts of activities that aren\u2019t actually meditation.\u00a0 Does it matter?\u00a0 Should Buddhists let go of our terms?\u00a0 Is this how the Puritans felt when Publick Occurrences started printing trend articles like, \u201cPraeyer: Talking to G-d Myte Increafe Crop Size\u201d?
\nHere\u2019s a link to the article.\u00a0 What do you all think?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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