The Fourth Face of Eros: The Interconnectivity of Being Patterns that Connect Longing, desire and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected. No human stands alone. The word “religion ...
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To yearn is to be aflame: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com For the Hebrew mystic, unlike his Buddhist or Greek cousins, desire and longing are sacred. Eros is the yearning force of being. I yearn therefore I am. To be cut off from the er ...
I yearn therefore I am: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com For me to yearn is to sing. When I was 16 and 17 years old I would wander the streets of Riverdale New York singing songs of yearning from the midnight hour often until nearly da ...
The Eros of Yearning: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Yearning Force of Being The mystical tradition knows to tell of time portals, each capable of accessing different regions of our interior castle. The mystical masters underst ...
The Dignity of Desire: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com ‘Tis Better to Bleed In a dialogue between a well known Buddhist teacher and myself, the teacher challenged me persistently on this issue of desire. “After all,” he said, ...
Statement of Support for Rabbi Marc Gafni
Statement of Support for Rabbi Marc Gafni and a Partial Response to Some Voices in Jewish Leadership ...
Detachment is not the Goal: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Detachment for the biblical mystic is a strategy, not a goal. In the end, you must not remain a spectator in the drama of your own existence. Rather, you need to become the lead ...
On the Clarification of Desire: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Desire is Holy. And not always to be acted upon. In fact often not to be acted upon. The biblical mystic lovingly counsels us to be with yourself and gently watch your desires as ...
The Eye of Desire: Alexander the Great: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com shared comments on info@marcgafni.com The Eye of Desire For many of the biblical mystics, the symbol of confused desire was Alexander the Great. He took almost the entire known world of his day. Yet, insisted the ma ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, Davinci Codes, Templars: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The templars. The masons. Raiders of the Lost Ark. The Ark of the Covenant in the Temple. Jerusalem the place of the temple. The eye of the storm and the hope for peace. Davinci ...
The Third Face of Eros: Desire: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Third Face of Eros: Desire Desire has gotten a bad name. Buddhists talk about desire all the time and tell us how bad it is. Christianity and Judaism are big attackers of des ...
Snakes and Scorpions: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com We have all met snakes and scorpions. The biblical master ask the students. The mantra reads. The pit was empty, it had no water. {This comes from the description of the pit that ...
Life is what you do with your emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Life is what you do with your emptiness. Life is about walking through the void. Every time we walk through and not around the void we come out stronger. Every time we are seduce ...
Echoes of Emptiness; The Erotic and the Ethical: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The arena where emptiness- non-erotic living – is most destructive is in the ethical. Every ethical failure comes from the absence of eros. It is the inability to stay in t ...
Stay in the Emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The cherubs once again serve as our guide. Remember that the vortex of Shechina in the biblical myth is no less than “atop the ark in the Holy of Holies, between the cherubs. ...