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The Dance Of Unconditionality: Mastering Dynamic Energy Flow Through Mindful Acceptance And Connected Practice.
Trying to Control Desire
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) As we come into contact with this sovereign force, we find there are intersections between the thread of desire and the outline of our preferences. We are a fair-weather friend to desire, offering it our...
The Felt Sense Of Truth
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) We have mastered solitary consciousness: the consciousness developed sitting in a cave or on a cushion. We have not even begun to master reciprocal consciousness: the fundamental willingness to be change...
Eros Has Us Make Choices That Feed Life
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Eros takes an unconventional approach to guiding us. It does not give much credence to the power of self-will, knowing it can knock self-will, discipline, and applied morality out of the most earnest spi...
Holding and Moving
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) While we are waiting for our desire to ripen, we can start work on the skills we will need when it comes time to express it to another person. We want to communicate our desires skillfully, and so we dev...
Desire Is Demonstrated by Attainment
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) — The deepest desires we have are the ones we keep getting, despite us saying we don’t want them. — If we could have rejected them, we would have. Pretending we don’t want these desires doesn’t keep the...
OneTaste: The Truth About Hamza (Bloomberg)
OneTaste Encouraged Balancing Personal Desires With Family Responsibilities.
The Erotic Order
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) If the solution in Eros is always connection, then what is the path to connection? On the path of Eros, what moves us and what we are moved by is desire. Desire is the fuel, movement, and aim of this rea...
Evolution Is Erotic Morality
Evolution Is Erotic Morality: Incentivizing Beneficial Behaviors Through Pleasure, Not Punishment
Desire Awaits Our Admission
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Desire is indestructible, indivisible, incorruptible. No argument can contest it. As humbling as it is to our rational mind, desire cannot be destroyed. We can, of course, dismiss desire. We can try to d...
An Experiential Path, Not Renunciation
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Eros is the foundation of all work, but primarily, it is the foundation of working with conditioned patterns. The way the path of Eros works is not by ascending above our lives and avoiding the chaos and...
Deserving
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) One of the greatest challenges we face when we finally arrive in the body is feeling we are undeserving. Upon reflection, it’s not hard to see why. — We see how we have acted in defiance of the body and...
Threatened by Good
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) When our identity—the face of the tumescent mind—is threatened by good, — it’s because something has occurred that goes radically against its conception of who the identity believes “we” are. — Good ca...
Blowing Out on the Good
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Each time something good happens and a new experience enters, our identity must open wider in order to contain it. The tumescent mind will be keenly aware something fundamental in our being has shifted a...
Climax Consciousness
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) More often than not, we do not confront tumescence. We allow it to build, we neglect it, and we assume it will go away. Or we try to starve the underlying desire until we’re weak enough that the tumescen...
The Path to Unconditional Freedom
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) When we recognize the unified nature of all phenomena, we realize there is nothing we are not. Nothing is foreign or other in a state of intimacy. — We can afford to see the essential beauty and truth i...
Compensations for Desire
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) A gap forms in our consciousness when we lack intimacy between ourselves and our desire. We find ourselves unplugged from our power source. In the same way the loss of a limb gives rise to a phantom, we ...
All Is Perfect with Room to Evolve
Realize Ultimate Perfection Lies Within, Permitting Life's Unfolding For Ever-Deepening Satisfaction.
Perfection Restores Us
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) When we do not yet know, have forgotten, or become unmoored from our inherent worth, everything becomes an external signifier that affirms or denies our value. When we go searching for our worth, we get ...
Identity Is the Homeostasis Of the Mind
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Inside of us lies the raw, unadulterated pulse of desire. Outside lies the world of phenomena. Our life is the mutually influencing conversation that happens between these two poles. — Waves of desire f...
Knowing What We Know
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Most people have no idea how to know what they know. Having lived in the delusion that the rational mind can affect reality other than through constriction, most of what people call “knowing” has been a ...
Our Gravity
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) — This is a path of shared power, and we recognize that power only activates through actual contact and experience with the world. — When we look out into the game of life, we can see, without question,...
Reciprocity
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) When we think of desire, we tend to think of the “object” of our desires when, in fact, what we are engaged in is a dynamic reciprocity. Eros asks us to adjust our view of nature—that all things are not ...
Eros Is an Invitation to Unconditionality
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Eros guides and trains us from the inside out, operating by non-rational principles or natural law. Do not confuse irrational with non-rational, for the latter is a system of order that is the equal comp...
Reception Conforms to Homeostasis
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) We could call our homeostatic shape of reception our bandwidth of deserving. Bandwidth refers to the range of frequencies that can be picked up by a device such as a TV or radio. When we tune to a partic...
A Congruent Mind Seeks to Lose Well
The Natural Mind Welcomes Congruent Opposition As A Complement That Balances, Not Threatens.
The Erotic Mind Destabilizes the Homeostatic Self
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) In its preference for familiarity and the comfortable middle ground, the homeostatic self relates to the present in terms of the past. It is like a graveyard of obsolete experiences and foregone conclusi...
Our Truest and Deepest Best
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The spot is truth, pure and simple. It is the spot of highest sensation, of most resonance. When felt in the body, it cannot be faked. In conversation, it is the moment when the unspeakable has just been...
A Sensory Organ
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Our desire is a sensory organ that travels with us through the world, feeling for the deeper things we want—the pleasures of connection and love and a feeling of belonging that will bring us into the ful...
Desire Is the Energy Of This Realm
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Eros teaches us that there is a vital distinction between telling the truth and being honest. Telling the truth is the letter of the law in a world that lives from the neck up. It is bureaucratic, protoc...
The Only Thing Wanted Is a Lit-up Us
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) We can gauge how far out from reception we are based on our response to what life brings us. First, there is the experience of pain. If we cannot allow it, then we will contract around the pain. Next, we...
The Language Of the Body: The Ten Hungers
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The body speaks to us in a tapestry of hungers. At the most fundamental level is the hunger for food, sleep, and security. These survival-based hungers operate on the physical plane. Beyond them lie fulf...
The Call Of Desire
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) If we listen to the call of desire, we are faced with a humbling realization: virtually every skill we developed prior to this point—every smidgen of intelligence; our vaunted ability to rationally order...
Approval
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The subtle art of approval is central to the Erotic life. To genuinely approve, we must access the noble part of ourselves. This nobility has an infinite and unshakable largesse and generosity, and it th...
Desire Uses Us
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The ways we relate to desire reveal how we perceive it. Do we regard it as something troublesome we engage with in a struggle for control? Or something we can no longer resist due to a weakness in our ch...
The Hallway
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) We know. We always know. But it is fun to not know. It is fun to forget and discover. This is how we “human” this life. If we sit only in our knowing, we would miss out on the richness of coming to know,...
The Relentlessness Of the Spot
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The tumescent mind is the voice in the background always suggesting we chill out a bit, just do what we already know, stick with the familiar, and stay in our bubble. Resentment is the nourishment of the...
We Are Always Interconnected
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) There is no such thing as fear of intimacy. Yet fear of suffocation, fear of expectation, fear of demands, and fear of entitlement are palpable fears connected to the concept of intimacy. But intimacy is...
Desire Is Your True North
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Working with desire is simple but not easy. It requires a diligent and consistent focus and the development of a consistent, inquiring ambient attention. What this looks like is having a sense of our tru...
Tumescence Relies on Scarcity
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) On our way back to the Erotic mind, tumescence will give us the impression we will need to endlessly shift conditions in order to penetrate it. The buildup of that un-potentiated energy sets us off on a ...
Climax and Desire
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) On the path of Eros, we note the distinctions between various expressions of consciousness and the treatment of desire that issues from each. The forms of desire described here are native to Eros. They a...
The True Value Of Hunger
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) In a world where the rational mind reigns supreme, hunger all too easily gets uprooted from its home in our body; its impulses find themselves under the purview of the mind’s shifting world of ideas. Thi...
Vulnerability
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) We are most powerful when we are most vulnerable. This may seem a paradox in the same way a heart that is the deepest and most whole is one that is broken. It is only in our vulnerability that we recogni...
Fears We Have About Desire
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) In our efforts to align and be moved by this dynamic side of the profound, fears may naturally arise. Fear is always borne of the unknown and desire always draws us toward it. The two can have a tumultuo...
Eros Calls Us Back Home
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The Erotic is our undoing because that is precisely its aim. If we accept it honestly, our conditioning dissolves incrementally. It does not aim to bring us into the etheric, disembodied, pristine purity...
Eros Guides Through the Felt Sense
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) There is the presumption that there would be a bacchanalian free-for-all if we did not legislate all our behavior. But this is the result of a deep-seated misperception that occurs when we don’t understa...
The Vertical Brings Us to Erotic Adulthood
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The Vertical Brings Us to Erotic Adulthood. When we speak of Eros, we must speak of the concept of horizontal or vertical access. Horizontal consciousness is a type of extrinsic, everyday consciousness t...
Defining Tumescence
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Tumescence is felt like a swelling, a buildup of pressure caused by the body’s natural response to physical, mental, spiritual, and sexual arousal. — It is encoded with a message that it needs relief an...
The Meaning Of Respect
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The Erotic speaks to us in the various dialects of hunger: yearning, longing, desire. The path is simple—to let it draw us into that which we most deeply desire, to give this life, just as it is, with al...
Know the Delusion to Know the Truth
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The path of Eros can be confounding because it asks us to enter the profane areas of life with zero avoidance. Sex, money, and power being our three biggest torments, Eros wants us to drive straight into...
Responses to Loss Of Innocence
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) The sweet spot between hunger and apprehension is what we seek and what we avoid. Our memories of “good” can always be traced back to this dynamic tension. — What we forget is that while in this sweet s...
Casting Out and Returning
Buy The Book Here (https://a.co/d/7ahJEnA) Our predisposition is to aim for what we perceive to be ascendant, superior, ultimate—the pristine mountaintop. The process for going up is simple but not always easy. We are told to drop off any perceiv...