The Bodhissatva Pimp
It doesn't happen that often, but once in a great while you see a movie that touches you so powerfully you feel like it changes your life! Something in it provides you with a spiritual jolt, a kind of satori-experience wherein suddenly the mysteries of life unfold before your eyes and spiritual riches drop at your feet.
Such a film, for me, would be Snoop Dogg's "Boss n' Up". It's a beautiful allegory of a spiritual seeker who breaks free of the shackles of his ego and attains a very high level of enlightenment, a very pure state. But instead of continuing his spiritual advancement, Snoop's Siddhartha chooses to stay here and help the struggling souls in this realm, this vibration- the bodhisattva role as it's known in Buddhism.What's remarkable to me about the movie is the setting in which Snoop Dogg couches his story of spiritual growth, as a pimp(the seeker)getting out of Prison(his ego), and then coming back to help other seekers(young wannabe pimps), and of course throughout the film advice and guidance from The Master Pimp(usually from inside his limo) as he proceeds on the long and bumpy path to enlightenment. Other very high beings make their presence known in the movie, all of them having attained a state of sahaj samadhi --of course symbolized by big hats, fancy cars, and of course fancy women. What a beautiful transposition of noble and ignoble- the world's most noble quest and the world's most ignoble occupation
.Oh, wait a minute! He's serious!!FUCK!!!!He's talking, not figuratively but literally, about getting women to fuck guys for money, 99% of which you keep. And he really seems to hold these guys who do that in some kind of esteem. After all, there are actual pimps playing themselves here--and they are billed in the credits as such. That testimony in itself says it all.
Well okay I didn't really think this was in any way allegorical. Just fuckin' with ya there. But I did think it was a parody aways into the movie, and at a point his earnestness seemed to dawn on me--okay I guess that was my satori, that sort-of chilling realization.Why did I think it was a parody? Strangely enough, by its very earnestness. The 'sage' advice given from the Pimp Master contained in its tone the same love and reverence one would have for something involving real effort and requiring real skill- such as being a fine musician, or fine athlete, or fine anything but user..
On the other hand, aside from the whole human subjugation/ Sexual Dictatorship thing here(yes, most reprehensible to be sure, but at least Snoop, to commend him, is non-violent toward his pelvic posse , contrary to advice from Da Mastah as far as keeping discipline), it would be pretty cool to have a whole crew of great-looking women, any of whom you could fuck any time you wanted to. That plus all that damn money would certainly be fun. Definitely put you in the closest thing to sahaj samadhi on this side of the Veil..
Actually I think prostitution should be legal throughout the whole country, not just parts of Nevada. But if there's any kind of management, a much more benevolent and less controlling one--maybe like the Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton characters in Night Shift: love brokers..
So. Boss n' Up. Parody or allegory? Maybe both, maybe neither. I anxiously await his next cinematic opus-especially if he has more fine-looking women in it like this time. Not sure what month this was released, I'm thinking December. Regardless, I watched it over Christmas, and it definitely gives a different meaning to "ho ho ho"...
Such a film, for me, would be Snoop Dogg's "Boss n' Up". It's a beautiful allegory of a spiritual seeker who breaks free of the shackles of his ego and attains a very high level of enlightenment, a very pure state. But instead of continuing his spiritual advancement, Snoop's Siddhartha chooses to stay here and help the struggling souls in this realm, this vibration- the bodhisattva role as it's known in Buddhism.What's remarkable to me about the movie is the setting in which Snoop Dogg couches his story of spiritual growth, as a pimp(the seeker)getting out of Prison(his ego), and then coming back to help other seekers(young wannabe pimps), and of course throughout the film advice and guidance from The Master Pimp(usually from inside his limo) as he proceeds on the long and bumpy path to enlightenment. Other very high beings make their presence known in the movie, all of them having attained a state of sahaj samadhi --of course symbolized by big hats, fancy cars, and of course fancy women. What a beautiful transposition of noble and ignoble- the world's most noble quest and the world's most ignoble occupation
.Oh, wait a minute! He's serious!!FUCK!!!!He's talking, not figuratively but literally, about getting women to fuck guys for money, 99% of which you keep. And he really seems to hold these guys who do that in some kind of esteem. After all, there are actual pimps playing themselves here--and they are billed in the credits as such. That testimony in itself says it all.
Well okay I didn't really think this was in any way allegorical. Just fuckin' with ya there. But I did think it was a parody aways into the movie, and at a point his earnestness seemed to dawn on me--okay I guess that was my satori, that sort-of chilling realization.Why did I think it was a parody? Strangely enough, by its very earnestness. The 'sage' advice given from the Pimp Master contained in its tone the same love and reverence one would have for something involving real effort and requiring real skill- such as being a fine musician, or fine athlete, or fine anything but user..
On the other hand, aside from the whole human subjugation/ Sexual Dictatorship thing here(yes, most reprehensible to be sure, but at least Snoop, to commend him, is non-violent toward his pelvic posse , contrary to advice from Da Mastah as far as keeping discipline), it would be pretty cool to have a whole crew of great-looking women, any of whom you could fuck any time you wanted to. That plus all that damn money would certainly be fun. Definitely put you in the closest thing to sahaj samadhi on this side of the Veil..
Actually I think prostitution should be legal throughout the whole country, not just parts of Nevada. But if there's any kind of management, a much more benevolent and less controlling one--maybe like the Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton characters in Night Shift: love brokers..
So. Boss n' Up. Parody or allegory? Maybe both, maybe neither. I anxiously await his next cinematic opus-especially if he has more fine-looking women in it like this time. Not sure what month this was released, I'm thinking December. Regardless, I watched it over Christmas, and it definitely gives a different meaning to "ho ho ho"...
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