The Heat That Lies Within

The beauty of the Erotic impulse is that it heats up and activates the sediment that lies within. Rather than the spiritual approach of allowing the sediment to merely settle, the Erotic impulse stirs it up in order to get it out.

A sensation that often collects around the Erotic impulse is shame. This is not because Eros is in any way inherently shameful, but because shame is what we have covered it in with the inaccurate belief that this will keep it down.

What lies beneath that shame is the vulnerability and the innocence of Eros.

Our practice, then, is to let it all burn off, to allow the heat to refine the impulse until it reveals itself in its simplest form. Pure, unashamed, alive.