at the Brink of a Cross-Roads....Archive for October, 2009
Private Halloween Party Kinbaku Xhibition
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W/we will be doing Kinbaku Xhibition throughout the night for fun Halloween Party on the South Side…
It’s a party from a nice guy we met at a BNC party who goes by sschi on FetLife…
There will be a fully functioning Haunted House all night, A DJ & lots of people having fun.
We have a suspension point & W/we’ll be doing bondage all night. There will be people flying in from around the country for this party. The crowd will be mostly vanilla & a wide variety of people. I’ll be tying various people who Would like to try bondage & suspension. We will be dressing up in our clownesque costumes. Looking forward to a lot of FUN. Looking forward to playing with mara & doing some really cool suspensions with her & also tying up some other cuties as well. There are always 1 or 2 people in these situations that stumble into this, have always been into it but ave never had the courage to be around it face to face or it is completely new to them & they fall in love with it.. these peoples lifes take a major shift & they begin to explore what has always been in them.. That is always a wonderful moment for me. Not totally sure what to expect.. in my book, that’s a GOOD thing. What a drag would life be without the unexpected!
So you all have a Happy Halloween!
-Master DVNT
Kinky Kollege 2009 – Back to sKOOL
Posted by: | CommentsThis weekends agenda is Kinky Kollege !! Its back to skool for Master and i ..
This will be the first time i’ve attended this event with my Master and i am looking forward to it … it looks like a great line up of classes and “instructors” … i am looking forward to Master Skips class in particular!!
Skip Chasey, a/k/a Master Skip, heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and certified Grief Recovery ™ counselor and also earns a living as a missionary among the savages of
Hollywood. He is a co-producer of the Southwest Leather Conference and a co-founder of People of Leather Among You (“PLAY”), a social and educational group for Southern California men and women interested in the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality. In 2000 Master Skip addressed a crowd of almost one million people at the Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given the keynote address and nearly 150 programs on the spiritual dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at noteworthy leather events throughout the US and Canada..
Check out KK website.. kinkykollege.com for more information on what they offer at this event.
One of the really really exciting things that W/we have in store for U/us is the
~Fakir Musafar’s Ritual Energy Hook Pull ~
The energy pull ritual is not about pain or stoicism but rather a way, by gradually increasing tension on piercings, to shift your energy towards an altered state. It is also a wonderful tool to share energy with others. You connect intimately with friends, lovers and even strangers pulling on your cords, tuning in to each other, experiencing group energy in a “tribal” ceremonial ring.
Master will be doing the Flesh Hook pull and i will be assisting and being there to help Master in any way i can ….
Hope w/we get all A’s !!! i am really looking forward to Sirving Master this eekend… and always!!
see you there!!
Miss__Morrigan – New Chicago Domme, Liar, Fraud, Fool
Posted by: | CommentsWell, this not so smart girl came knocking on my door asking me to expose her as a fraud, so here ya go!
Please educate yourself on the habitual liar who has stolen this image, claiming it is the work of her own in a foolish attempt to gain report by deceiving the community.
MISS MORRIGAN COMMUNITY FRAUD GETS THE GUILLOTINE
I have decided to give Miss Morrigan her own page because the images in this post are very large & take up to much space for the Home Page.
Follow this Link for complete post:
slaveBound.com/blog/miss-morrigan
BNC 2009 Halloween Dungeon Party
Posted by: | CommentsNEXT EVENT: OCT 17, 2009
BondageNightChicago is happy to present :::
NAUGHTY @ the CONTINUUM – 3RD SATURDAYS OF EVERY MONTH
(THIS MONTH, WE ARE HAVING A HALLOWEEN-THEMED DUNGEON PARTY)
Hosted by Mistress Xena and by: Mistress Cleo
MUSIC… BNC resident DJ Peter Propaganda spinning: Industrial, EBM, Electro
Where: The Continuum
Toys: Bring Y/your OWN TOYS
Dress Code: THIS MONTH, WE ARE HAVING A HALLOWEEN-THEMED DUNGEON PARTY. FEEL FREE & DRESS IN COSTUMES. IT WILL BE A FUN & FESTIVE DUNGEON PARTY.
Please read the Dungeon Party Etiquette Page
RSVP: mistressxena_chicago at yahoo dot com
Zen is Understanding Yourself
Posted by: | CommentsOne day a student from Chicago came to the Providence Zen Center and asked Seung Sahn Soen-Sa, “What is Zen?”
Soen-sa held his Zen stick above his head and said, “Do you understand?”
The student said, “I don’t know.”
Soen-sa said, “This don’t know mind is you. Zen is understanding yourself.”
“What do you understand about me? Teach me.”
Soen-sa said, “In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.
“In the same way, all things in the universe – the sun, the moon, the stars, mountains, rivers, people, and so forth – have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same substance. The universe is organized into pairs of opposites: light and darkness, man and woman, sound and silence, good and bad. But all these opposites are mutual, because they are made from the same substance. Their names and their forms are different, but their substance is the same. Names and forms are made by your thinking. If you are not thinking and have no attachment to name and form, then all substance is one. Your don’t know mind cuts off all thinking. This is your substance. The substance of this Zen stick and your own substance are the same. You are this stick; this stick is you.”
The student said, “Some philosophers say this substance is energy, or mind, or God, or matter. Which is the truth?”
Soen-sa said, “Four blind men went to the zoo and visited the elephant. One blind man touched its side and said, ‘The elephant is like a wall.’ The 
next blind man touched its trunk and said, ‘The elephant is like a snake.’ The next blind man touched its leg and said, ‘The elephant is like a column.’ The last blind man touched its tail and said, ‘The elephant is like a broom.’ Then the four blind men started to fight, each one believing that his opinion was the right one. Each only understood the part he had touched; none of them understood the whole.
“Substance has no name and no form. Energy, mind, God, and matter are all name and form. Substance is the Absolute. Having name and form is having opposites. So the whole world is like the blind men fighting among themselves. Not understanding yourself is not understanding the truth. That is why there is fighting among ourselves. If all the people in the world understood themselves, they would attain the Absolute. Then the world would be at peace. World peace is Zen.”
The student said, “How can practicing Zen make world peace?”
Soen-sa said, “People desire money, fame, sex, food, and rest. All this desire is thinking. Thinking is suffering. Suffering means no world peace. Not thinking is not suffering. Not suffering means world peace. World peace is the Absolute. The Absolute is I.”
The student said, “How can I understand the Absolute?”
Soen-sa said, “You must first understand yourself.”
“How can I understand myself?”
Soen-sa held up the Zen stick and said, “Do you see this?”
He then quickly hit the table with the stick and said, “Do you hear this? This stick, this sound, your mind – are they the same or different?”
The student said, “The same.”
Soen-sa said, “If you say they are the same, I will hit you thirty times. If you say they are different, I will still hit you thirty times. Why?”
The student was silent.
Soen-sa shouted, “KATZ!!!” Then he said, “Spring comes, the grass grows by itself.”
From Dropping Ashes On The Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn
edited by Stephen Mitchell (Grove Press, New York, NY, 1976)
Copyright © Providence Zen Center
Text taken from The Kwan Um School of Zen website
This book and others are available from our Primary Point Press
Vegan Mania
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Heading out to VEGAN MANIA with O/or friend Moses!
I’ve been vegitarian for somewhere around 15 years & now vegan for around 5 years.. & Its been GREAT*
Mara’s been vegitarian off & on for many years & now vegan for the past couple years & our house is vegan…
She has gotten great at cooking since we’ve been together.. We eat great meals & she’s given this skinnyguy a little bit of a belly! : )
An all day vegan fest! YUMMMM! : ))
Animals are my buddies & I got love for all beings..
PS… I love muunbeems!
-DVNT
When anger arises…
Posted by: | Commentswhat can a slave do when she is infinitely angry ? so incredibly angry ? angry at everything.. and feeling so overwhelmed ?
where can i go ? what source is there for my relief ? i of course look to my Master.. and i see that He is prescribing the medicine
He feels is best.. but sometimes it feels like i want to screammmmmmm….
and i want to vent … stomp my feet .. and have a it reach someone.. reach HIM.. but not to hurt Him… but then when His remedy is a bitter pill.. and i’m left with WHAT I DON’T WANT.. and the world is rotating around me… memememememememmemeemeemmeemememememmemememememememememmemememememmemememem me.
it leaves no room or space round me for anything.. its just me.. screaming alone .. screaming in my head,, and feeling sorry for myself….. that i;m too stupid.. too fat… to tireds tired tired …. to…
see out of my head…
that’s when i heard it snap……
“I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. “
- William Blake
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.”
-Buddha
and i am an expert at that.. in fact i can not only hold onto it.. i can create it out of thin air… or at least midlly thin air…
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
It’s times magic.. its impermanence at its finest… the anger subsides…. over time.. the anxiety lessens….. and i look back and don’t feel upset as much… why ? why is this ?
why ?
what is the value in this lesson? and why cant i ever learn it ??
this is so so deep.. it seems to have no end.
Nighty Night
Posted by: | CommentsNighty Night my Master … You shine upon me .. reflecting in my face ..
solo slave
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Though Your slave is far far away .. i hold You close Master .. i feel O/our connection and am soothed . . i walk through city streets and in underground passages and i see You everywhere.i am feeling well my Master … and i look forward to sleeping with You tomarrow .. untill then .. i snuggle to my pillow. and send You Your heart .. filled with l8ve ..
Seeing Beyond Dualistic Emotions
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A negative emotion is an alarm bell revealing that there is attachment to some story in time happening. If resentment, sadness, guilt, or shame arises, notice that a story of past is happening. If anxiety or fear arises, notice that thought is telling a story of future. When anger or frustration arises, notice that there is a story of resistance to now happening (e.g., the driver in front of you is not doing what you want her to do).
Awakening presents the opportunity to see that these stories are arising now. You aren’t actually visiting the past or future. There is simply thinking arising in timelessness. Suffering is an illusion of thought.
Liberation is not about removing emotions or thoughts. It is not about destroying the ego. Only ego would seek to destroy ego. Liberation is about seeing how attachment to these stories in time creates suffering.
In seeing that this thought life is keeping a dualistic, time-bound, self-centered story alive, the possibility of liberation from suffering arises. In that seeing, attachment to these stories and their accompanying emotions dissolves on its own.
Liberation is not about replacing the negative stories and emotions with positive ones. It is about seeing what is actually happening in ‘your’ mental and emotional world. Peace, love, and joy arise in that seeing. These attributes of peace, love, and joy exist beyond dualistic emotions.
~ From: ‘Reflections of the One Life’, by Scott Kiloby
Awesome Kitty needs special home!!!
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Awesome Kitty needs special home!!!……….
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -Dalai Lama
Meet Mike… He’s a 1.5- 2 year old boy kitty…
so super nice…so super smart !!
You will LOVE him like we do… but Mike needs a special home….
Here’s the scoop…..
We have been feeding and playing with Mike outdoors for several months..he’s been the neighborhood “buddy” for all the folks on the block.. playing and being fed by everyone.. (so he gets along great with people and other pets )..
but in Chicago it gets cold… very cold…
We took Mike to the vet in order to have him live with us and our other two kitties…to get him safe and warm for the winter!!! At the vet we had him tested for Feline Leukemia and Feilne HIV.. and his first round tests came back positive for FeLV which is the lukemia virus…You can read more here..
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/fhc/brochures/felv.html
http://felineleukemia.org/
so this means that Mike needs to be placed in a home with NO OTHER KITTIES.. he can be around people just fine.. but not around kitties… He is a strong ,healthy, fun, clean and completely house trained boy… he goes in the box and behaves very very well….
We had him get all his shots so he will be stronger and healthier either way.. so he has been vaccinated for FeLV, FIV, and rabies . These shots help build his immunity and thus make him less contagious to others.. and healthier for his life.
We are planning to get a 2nd test done to confirm his diagnosis. What happens with FeLV is that they become vulnerable more through there emulate system & because of this, they eventuality catch some other fatality or heath issue. FeLV is not airborne & it can not be caught by people.. it is transmitted to other kitties through saliva, shared litter-box, ect. The vet told us 3 years but from the research we have done, we have read that the life expectancy is shorter then other kitties but they can not project the lifespan of this condition & likely he could live many years up to a normal lifespan as a healthy & happy cat… & also there are options for medicines available to help increase their health & lifespan. So we believe he deserves a happy life like in a loving home just like any other kitty… Only thing is, he can’t be around other cats!
He just needs a home… right now he is staying on our back porch but he cant live there forever..
So if you love kitties and want to contribute to making the world a better place.. please consider adopting Mike.. he is honestly so wonderful … you will LOVE him..
Please contact us here to stop by and check him out (W/were located in Chicago)… you’ll need a cat carrier with you,,, coz you wont be able to resist!!
Or cant take him in, please forward this message t6o others & let your friends know or anyone you think might be interested.
We can be contacted here through our website contact page located here -
http://slavebound.com/blog/contact
L8ve for all beings…
sincerely ~
- HOUSE DVNT -
Master Dvnt & mara muun
“Our compassion is our Buddha seed or Buddha nature, our potential to become a Buddha. It is because all living beings possess this seed that they will all eventually become Buddhas.”
Compassion is the very essence of Buddhadharma, & the main practice of a Mahayana Buddhist. It is the root of the Three Supreme Jewels – Buddha, Dharma, & Sangha. It is the root of Buddha because all Buddhas are born from compassion. It is the root of Dharma because Buddhas give Dharma teachings motivated solely by compassion for others. It is the root of Sangha because it is by listening to & practicing Dharma teachings given out of compassion that we become Sangha, or Superior beings”
-Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness; By Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
mara loves kissing!
Posted by: | Commentsmara L8VES KISSING!
Waxtrax kiss Chicago 09 : D
Look forward to a New KISSING Gallery coming SOON!
KILTER Magazine Fall Issue Magazine Release Party
Posted by: | CommentsCome out tonite, hang with all the folks that produce KILTER Magazine & friends…
Get your copy hot off the PRESS… mara & I will be there… I suspect I’ll be bringing out some rope… Come see U/us & share a great time!
See ya there! Much love,
-Master DVNT
THURSDAY, October 1st
KILTER magazine Fall issue release Party @ Villains
KILTER magazine has hit its one year anniversary! Come out and be one of the first to get the new Fall issue. This has contributors such as Chad Savage, Scary Lady Sarah, Peter Propaganda, Mistress Xena, Happy Dave & more. This is a great networking opportunity, so bring out samples of your work.
Also, join us for the afterparty.
7:00pm
FREE jello shots
Villains Bar and Grill
649 S Clark St
Chicago, IL 60605
312-356-9992
A Letter To Mother
Full Moon Jam