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Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta) - (The... 17 mentions

• um and without the expansion of cycling logos then the the eros and the pothos can only expand outwards horizontally at
• some years depends a lot on the soul type as well and the eros and i've talked about that elsewhere but
• aversion to the world or antique because anti-eros to the world um and more there is in living life to
• um get beyond the world then so there's something we could almost call it eros but it's really in a quite a a limited
• these days um so it's not quite eros in the way we would say but let's say something like
• self and and world and life and world but if the eros is really big and again i've talked about sort of eros is really
• but if the eros is really big and again i've talked about sort of eros is really big or if it gets to be bigger through
• and one will have at some point both an eros for the world and the eros for the beyond the transcendent the unfabricated
• whatever um and the eros for the world but if if it gets wrapped up in the allowed to
• something beyond and at the same time there will be eros for the transcendent so big eros when a person has a big ears
• there will be eros for the transcendent so big eros when a person has a big ears or when their eros is allowed to become
• so big eros when a person has a big ears or when their eros is allowed to become big and work so that it becomes big
• than that it won't just be that mild eros for life in the world in a kind of abhorrence for a beyond a transcendent
• desires as i said when when the eros is allowed to get in to stimulate and then get
• um but it's also possible that there's eros as i said for the unfabricated and then there's that particular kind of
• part of what we've talked about as part of what the eros will create and discover there's always a beyond
• relationship and coupling it's with us there's the eros both ways there's the togetherness but we never become it

The Image of Ethics (Part 4) - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• and the sense of the other elements and duty beauty and eros and loving loving and being loved and eternality and
• soulmaking gives us the sense that our eros our eros my eros right now is divine
• ideas and those perspectives my eros is divine comes from the divine that my you know
• be drawn naturally through seeing it and through love of it and through eros for it to towards moving towards
• opens up in the being the eros with practice with care and practice that eros opens up the psyche
• the eros with practice with care and practice that eros opens up the psyche and the logos the ideation as well
• moral dread all virtuosities living no place for eros for our eros for virtues and values
• place for eros for our eros for virtues and values or indirectly through an imaginal figure
• so i would say we need place 2 for love and eros as i've said before with respect to virtues and values and ethics
• because again it's got this sense of dimensionality divinity of eros of duty to values and virtues as as ideational
• a nationality duty divinity eros to these ideational images to these ideas values virtues
• and or the eros is blocked and the eros is limited so yeah it's sort of warm and
• fire it's not really full the soul is not really stretched that way the eros is not really ignited
• place for dimensionality and maybe the eros is blocked or limited in some way and this prevents
• infinite in its reaches and its callings something we love something we have eros for something soulmaking
• towards the divine so there's also this eros and um ineffitability of this transcendent

Emptiness and Ways of Looking - (In Psyche's Orchard) 16 mentions

• then if i follow that love follow the eros if i follow the meta that
• the idea of things and then that can stimulate the eros even more there's more ways of looking opened up
• that we find out are there when there is eros when there is metal karuna etc and then developing those ways looking
• um i think eros is really needed we really need to be
• interested and excited even you know the necessity of eros for practice is is a actually a necessity of
• practice is is a actually a necessity of of eros necessity of eros in life and in helping with all kinds of things
• also deeply interested in anything there's very little in other words eros in her life
• in her life eros ii this deep interest in something that would give her life soulfulness
• the mindfulness or the emptiness oh the eros so the mindfulness of the heroes the eros is really really important
• eros so the mindfulness of the heroes the eros is really really important in life
• in relationship to suffering yes it cuts but without it a life without eros will inevitably be have some form of
• before i think emptiness practices need to be fueled by eros by a kind of you know what do we call erotic curiosity
• practice mindfulness meta generosity compassion we need eros for that practice
• evidence inquiry in terms exploration it needs eros absolutely i think to be really fertile to that
• be fertile and is that eros that also will prevent us being sloppy with it we're not
• us being sloppy with it we're not satisfied the eros wants to go more more refined understanding more subtle

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 16 mentions

• that's even possible in uh work with eros and soulmaking but generally looking at yeah what's
• explorations and widening our practice to include this work with eros and soul making
• uh the the desire that's arising in that image with the eros with the erotic imaginal with the beloved other staying
• alive and and uh and and working with the eros there
• so maybe some people think god this is going to be really intense this eros business and desire and wow and fire and
• i actually responding to you know an if or when if the eros that's present in an image in image
• imaginal practice feels hard to bear if or when eros feels hard to bear sometimes
• trust in place in this practice in in the eros itself in in in the kind of image that's coming up is it feels you
• together and um and she said oh the eros is a little bit hard to bear right now and i asked
• aware that you said this before you know often in eros with eros there is uh attention there is what we what we're
• um but just to know so that that can be a part of eros yes there are um all kinds of different experiences of peace
• kinds of different experiences of peace that we can have in and with the eros quite particular ones senses of peace
• and that's not really what's happening in uh in in a state of eros for the most part i mean it might go towards this
• said the the um eros will will stay engaged with and other will
• but anyway uh eros is different really than equanimity we can talk about kinds of equanimity
• part and to differing degrees when we're working with eros okay so let's look in more detail in the

Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 16 mentions

• so we're talking about navigating and finding balance with eros with the imaginal etc
• scaffold support vessel all of that and you know eros and the imaginal and soul making and for a lot of people is edgy
• um and in relation to eros and soulmaking then it's going to need to be able to do
• and again you know part of that of course is and we're talking about eros and desire and sexuality again are we
• that's supportive to soulmaking and eros and everything that we're talking about is that we can't claim it would be
• break and and doesn't support enough eros doesn't support enough soulmaking demands another construction that whole
• giving dimension and divinity to what it came into contact with as the eros psychologos dynamic was stimulated and
• fertilized in other words there's this eros to this person
• idea the conceptual frame or the logos of of a cosmic or divine eros that idea that we've touched on
• experience the image of of that of a cosmic and divine eros the idea supports seeds and supports that they experience
• and the reverse this this idea um of a cosmic or divine eros that somehow i mirror angle it's permeating
• so eventually as i said before even the eros gets given dimensionality and given eyes and expanded there's a sense
• letting uh not getting in the way eventually eros appears divine and then that gives me the idea oh this
• is god's xerox i'm participating i'm mirroring it this eros that i have this love that i have echoes mirrors has
• with and and integrate the idea that we can never fully understand eros either because we say it's divine and
• psychologus dynamic expanding always the the nature of eros itself the perception the concept of euros itself somehow all

Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2) - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 14 mentions

• that um adequate for the material and the fire of eros and transformations there and explorations there and also
• master the fire in relation to this this kind of work with eros and the imaginal and we talked about preliminaries and we
• life and balance and again balance with with respect to eros and more general generally
• in practice or in life but especially with regard to eros where this is really important we're rarely talking about
• our passion or our eros or our energetic or psychic charge so so careful with this it's it's
• trust that supports the our equanimity in life and and with regard to eros so what this means is
• practices can possibly open up for us so in general you know if there's eros if there's certainly if there's a lot of
• if there's certainly if there's a lot of eros and you know just to say again some people i think are just born it's their
• in a way they are they are born with a lot of eros and a lot of psyche if you like they just have a lot of eros and a
• lot of eros and a lot of psyche if you like they just have a lot of eros and a lot of soul a lot comes through them and
• in in the emptiness there's the imaginal with the eros implicit in it and there's the coolness of of the knowing of
• balance generally which will affect our relationship with eros when it arises and all that
• actually as you're doing imaginal practice as the eros is alive with this beloved other with this erotic object
• and equanimity etc with respect to eros um and that also there's there's a place

The Spreading of Five Wings - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 14 mentions

• um let's let's call it an intrinsic potential or even an intrinsic eros that seoul has to reach out and open up and
• but actually i'd like to add one more element into that which is eros so self are the world eros now you could
• element into that which is eros so self are the world eros now you could say eros is a part of myself it's a it's
• so self are the world eros now you could say eros is a part of myself it's a it's a an aspect or an energy or force in
• and which maybe tends to get missed like my own eros has now become for myself an erotic imaginal object at times can it
• okay so that's the second one the third one is the eros psychologos dynamic itself or eros psycheon logos
• the third one is the eros psychologos dynamic itself or eros psycheon logos and again here there's if soulmaking is
• and again here there's if soulmaking is allowed to do its thing if eros is allowed to inseminate and fertilize and
• um am i a little bit reluctant we're talking for eros to get really strong it's a bit too intense and i'm not sure
• always like raging fire and like like this and actually eros can be extremely subtle so and you know it can be sexual
• not sexual sexual is just one kind of eros but do i it is is there a tendency or a patent or a preference conscious or
• unconscious for for the only the intense side of the range of eros and there's a tremendous amount that can be worked
• second one about the self other world uh eros thing that this has come up a couple of times in interviews and i
• understand so in terms of self other world eros thing don't don't put that how that how that might open up the

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking with Trees) - (The... 14 mentions

• that erotic that eros there the two
• the two ones and the two autonomies of eros remember eros needs that autonomy it
• ones and the two autonomies of eros remember eros needs that autonomy it needs the tunas they we could say
• a mystery an unfathomability and that's why we can have eros and soul making with respect to ideas as well
• somewhere in them a love for values a devotedness to values we have even eros for values
• forms it offers itself as a beyondness which is a needed by eros and the eros again will create more
• which is a needed by eros and the eros again will create more beyond this so values again they share
• mixed in with the sensing but that that um value the love and the eros and the devotion you have to values forms part
• devotion you have to values forms part of constitutes part of the eros we have um to uh to what we sense we saw
• soulmaking with respect to values and eros with respect to values i think that's really important to acknowledge
• and brings it brings also constitutes eros and soulmaking in relation to say goodness and beauty
• as well but it's more to do with a reverence for an eros for a devotion for a love for values
• the in the infinite uh for the eros and soulmaking so like just like anything imagine
• soulmaking sensing the soul and eros depend uh a lot on the uncommodified and

Heat and the Material - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 14 mentions

• person that there is already a lot of eros and tendency to image in their soul that's the soul that they are the soul
• such a soul that has a lot of eros that has a tendency to image
• such rich deep um fiery souls lots of eros lots of tendency towards image or inclination
• learning that um it does go towards craving the eros does become craving what could have
• that that's a pattern that they're in um and of course eros is a form of fire and heat and i think i use that analogy
• about heat we might mean the whole range coolness eros the whole range of emotions etc
• give rise to images and to eros okay so when we're in love
• what we feel called to what we want to move to eros etc so by stretched you know listen to the
• and actually of perception in general there's a pacification of desire eros and craving through through the simple
• category then we have an imaginal kind of image the kind of desire becomes eros with everything that means and that the
• pregnancy of that and the impregnating um faculty of eros the um relationship with the emotions is one
• because the crucible is there so imaginal image desire becomes eros rather than craving an emotional
• for the images and the eros as well so maybe that we're not allowing eros if we talk about eros
• and the eros as well so maybe that we're not allowing eros if we talk about eros is more than emotion but it can be

Between Ikon and Eidos: Image and Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 13 mentions

• i want to point out what i alluded to i think in eros unfetter talks the epistemicide
• it either directly or indirectly is the absence of the concept of eros and soul making concepts of euros and soulmaking
• just even if you just consider the concept of eros um and and the absence of that concept
• it will lead also to because of the way eros will stimulate the aero psychologos dynamic the soulmaking dynamic and that
• um the absence of eros will also lead to a kind of rigidification and a narrowing a
• there isn't because of the absence of eros there isn't the possibility for the aero psychologus dynamic to really get
• absence of the concept of eros comes from
• um for me it's uh if we don't have the idea of eros then we actually don't have an adequate
• both what's actually without the concept of eros and soul soulmaking we don't have
• is already driving us someone who loves practice is already in got eros and and soulmaking involved in that love in
• devotion um there is eros and a sense of selffulness and soulmaking in the ways
• there that so that we don't then with the absence of the concepts of eros the ideas of eros and so we don't actually
• the absence of the concepts of eros the ideas of eros and so we don't actually have an adequate sort of i don't think