You’re bound to it, you think you can’t live without it;
but in fact it is a [spiritual] obstacle.
Tag: desire
i can love (why celibacy? [4])
I can love more people this way.
tmx
what is it that (why celibacy? [3])
- What is it that men in women do require?
- The lineaments of satisfied desire.
- What is it that women in men do require?
- The lineaments of satisfied desire.
William Blake, The Doors of Perception
operating from misconceptions
Most of our trouble stems from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent. Operating from that misconception, we see aggregation and competitiveness as helpful in the pursuit of what we imagined and desire.
Dalai Lama
vision of your desire
This vision of your desire is ultimately empty and ungraspable. Do not reject it! It is discriminating awareness.
Flight of the Garuda [pdf], by Lama Shabkar Tsodruk Rangdrol (1781-1851)