The truly great dancer - like all lovers- flows with the fullness of being. She trusts the universe. She knows she will always fall right so she allows herself to fall into the erotic rhythm of life. ...
Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category
Daily Wisdom Post: The Music of the Temple
One of the places where we overcome alienation and step inside to an act of surrender is the sacred realm of music. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Teshuva
In our previous post we introduced a provocative Hebrew wisdom masters koan, "Great is teshuva, for in it intentional sins become great merits. ...
The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value
By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Creative Gaze
The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Lookers or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, Love the Stranger as Your Self
You must embrace all of your light as well as all of your darkness. Any part of me that I split off and reject is in exile. ...
Free Feeling: Using Emotions for Liberation, by Sally Kempton
Practice can change your relationship to emotions, so that instead of being swamped by certain feeling states, you can hold them, contain them, see into their essence, and ultimately, use emotions in the service of your liberation.Many years ago, I w ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Creative Gaze
The Kabbalists were often referred to as mistaklim or chozim, roughly translated as the Looker or Seers. To get a handle on what that might mean, just imagine how we feel when someone looks at us with erotic, loving eyes. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, To Greet with God’s Name
Calling out "the Name" is evoked the world over in greetings. The Spanish hello--hola--originated in Arab Spain from the term "O'Allah" -- Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. ...
Eros Audio Series, Sweetness and Sexuality
Join Dr. Marc Gafni in this free short audio clip. Tradition of sweetness is level three consciousness. The sexual will teach us the wisdom of every facet of life. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The sexual models the erotic, but it doesn’t exhaust the erotic
The fall of the temple symbolises the exile of the Erotic energy. Where did it go? The erotic is exiled in the sexual! We have to understand, that the sexual models the erotic, but it doesn’t exhaust the erotic. ...
Daily Wisdom Post, The Way to Open your Heart
The way to open your heart through the pain is to find the God that is infinitely pained in your contraction. ...
The Democratization of Enlightenment by Marc Gafni
It used to be that enlightened living was for the elite The few great lovers, saints, and sages throughout history reminded us that something more was possible, that there was a better way to live... ...
Eros Audio Series, Sacred Sexuality
Join dr. Marc Gafni in this free short audio clip exploring the inner meaning of sacred sexuality versus fallen sexuality. ...
Eros Audio Series, The pseudo-Eros trap: Avoiding Emptiness
In this audio clip dr. Marc Gafni explains what is real Eros, and what is pseudo-Eros. Pseudo-Eros is how we try to avoid emptiness. ...