Desire: The Tantric Path to Awakening

by Daniel Odier

Our difficulty in being present comes principally from the fact that we do not accept reality as it is because we see neither its beauty nor its depth. We wrongly imagine that life as we reorchestrate it is more worthy of being lived. Hence we lose considerable energy wanting to transform reality so that it corresponds to our plans, ideals, and beliefs. Unfortunately, reality is not made to conform itself to our desires. Thus do we lose a lot of time in this absurd occupation. That is the chief difficulty in living a more freely flowing, fluid life, one in which reality is no longer frozen by the mind. The mind is used to, and marvelously capable of, moving quickly and harmonizing with the flow of life, which itself also has great mobility. Every time we intervene to make something that is transitory by nature last, we block the natural flow of life. Every time we intervene in an attempt to cut off a sensation or an emotion that does not correspond to our desires, we paralyze, we block the natural flow of life.

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