Desire is Holy: Marc Gafni

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Yo! A good and beautiful week to everyone. i have just last week a beautiful Sabbath in Marin County. One of the more beautiful places on our planet. And i was able to spend time with a circle of completely wondrous true friends whom I love very much. So I am filled with overflowing gratitude and love for them which overflows into love for everything and all.

There is very simple way to know if love is true. If love of a particular person opens you up to love everyone and everything through your love of him or her or them, then it is true love.
if you love of him or her or them limits you; if you feel you can only love them then it is the ego playing tricks in the guise of love.

So to answer a question. Many of you have written and thanked my for these blog posts. Thank you for your thank you. I appreciate it.
Others of you have written and said ” after all you have gone through, maybe you should write on safer topics”. I appreciate your advice as well. Even if I will have to decline it.

For example in this post I talk about the sacred nature of desire. That is a truth that i feel in every pore of my being. My entire life has been a search for god, an attempt to live in the tao, to be aligned with spirit, to incarnate the divine will in my own deepest will, and at the same time a grand and occasionally not so grand, experiment in Eros. Often the experiment was successful. Sometimes however the chemical mix was off and the lab blew up. And I almost blew up with it.

So I have rebuilt the lab and the experiment continues. Yes, there are certain dangerous substances that I will not use anymore in experimenting. But my deep desire to understand and share models of love and platonic eros that might make us more whole still animates my life and calls my heart. And so I will continue as a Spiritual Artist to mix my colors and paint my canvas in the hope of c

Desire is Holy

The biblical mystic lovingly counsels us to be with yourself and gently watch your desires as they come and go. Not to eradicate them, not to get off the wheel of suffering which they are said to create. We are invited to engage in birur teshuka, the clarification of desire. To love someone is to wait on their desire, to watch it stir and delight in its presence, to help it crystallize and form.
Eros is to be on the inside, including the inside of your desire. What being on the inside does is invite a person to clarify his desires, yet not transcend them. True desire is attained through the deep meditation in which you access the internal witness. This is a place of detachment, from which you survey with penetrating but loving eyes all of your desires. This place of internal witness allows you to move beyond an addictive attachment to any particular one. At that point the person engaged in birur — clarification — does not abandon desire. Rather she moves to connect to those desires which were truest to her deepest and most authentic self. It is in the empty space “between the spasm and the desire” that the person is born.

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