What if I told you that what you most deeply desire is already here?
What if I told you that what you most deeply desire is already here?
At the root of all desire is a longing for the divine; a feeling of wholeness and fulfillment that we've been swindled into believing is circumstantial and always requires further steps to attain.
A coming home that we've journeyed so far trying to find somewhere "out there," that we've forgotten it's been "in here" all along.
Consumerism sells us the story that we must HAVE MORE to experience blissful states. Once I get this promotion/have a healthy relationship/get out of debt/heal from this illness... Then I can finally be happy/rest/play.
A more masculine approach to spirituality tells us connection with the divine is a destination or final state we achieve that exists somewhere on a future pedestal after doing a, b and c to achieve enlightenment x, y and z.
But ultimately, life reveals the wisdom that these states of "happiness" are only fleeting and become less satiating in relation to our growing hunger, jadedness and emptiness and dwindling enchantment with time.
With time we realize we've achieved our "destination," only to find the satiation of our desire still feels just out of our reach. An unobtainable carrot on a stick, perpetually robbing us of the present moment with the promise of a better future. There is always more to DO before we can finally BE.
The feminine Tantric way is to open to that state of connection in each moment, recognizing every circumstance as divine.
All is one. Therefore nothing can be more or less divine than anything else.
The path of the feminine is to meet each moment with remembrance of our true nature, dropping into the immanent divine connection that permeates every cell of existence.
Desire is only unhealthy if it distracts and disconnects you with what's already here, taking you out of the present.
Desire is not the root of suffering. It's the holy primordial longing for sacred union within and without.
It's the misunderstanding of our desire-- its projection onto impermanent things in the external world; attachment to things going our way; postponing of our happiness in the name of delusion-- that is the root of all suffering.
The lie that we are not enough, always empty, forever needing to chase something from the outside that has always been within, longing for us in the same way we long for it.
The root of all suffering is the denial that what we desire is the fabric of which we are made. It's not a destination to be achieved, but a journey of fully embracing and saying YES to each gift of the present and to ourselves as we already are.