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Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A) - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 11 mentions

• desire okay along with era so you've got three kinds eros craving cleaning at least
• so it's really um uh desire eros is a kind of clingy in fact and
• really the distinction is between craving and eros so so the distinction i would make is one of the distinctions i
• involved where's eros which which wasn't in your question tends to open things out it
• yeah it's the road to which craving and eros is are the extremes you could look at it that way yeah very nice yeah so
• dukka making way eros and soulmaking is the kind of fabrication let's say in a poetic way in
• time but as you begin to discern more the difference you uh eros can slip into craving without us sometimes even
• realizing what's happened you know craving can be transformed into eros into something more open more more
• um then the eros has something to move into and then it can do this era psychologist
• mentioned before that has a tendency to someone dampen the eros sometimes when they're they're subjective poll somewhat
• not so much of the tunas um there isn't so much of the eros um and

Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1) - (The Mirrored Gates) 10 mentions

• experimenting serious experimenting with imaginal practice uh and eros in practice and what we're calling soul
• it's relatively common uh these days and again words like eros or soul or logos all these words are used differently
• different it's more than love it's 11 being loved eros is second a third is beauty
• come back to this and i've touched on it a lot before but basically the eros psyche logos dynamic is stimulated and
• starts to expand and deep and enrich and mutually fertilize its elements of eros psyche and logos
• involve the other elements so the eros and the logos or the image and they start to
• object self and other and then the world too in cosmoporosis and the eros itself and and within all that there's as we
• like a complication and enriching and deepening and widening of the eros of the psyche of the logos what stage of
• involvement of the self and the world and the and the image of the eros or the logos of the eros
• and the and the image of the eros or the logos of the eros is are we at at any moment

Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A) - (Of Hermits and Lovers - The Alchemy of Desire) 10 mentions

• we're exploring um the imaginal and eros as well as will unfold what i want to say
• um is anytime there's an image there's eros okay and uh that might be like oh no i
• don't think there is but but there is in the way that we mean by eros it might not be so noticeable
• um it's kind of implied in the guided meditation the eros may be really obvious and really like not very subtle
• this is in the talk tonight um what happens is that as as eros gets going and there's the whole soulmaking
• okay and so in every facet of our life in every dimension of of being eros can come and infuse and and start to
• where there's meaningfulness there there is eros there there is image happening there there is fantasy and often we
• would never have thought to put the word eros or imagine with or anything like that could be you understand it's gonna
• um basically yes we can move so you can have eros all that lovely divinity and multi-dimensionality and then whoops
• involved so one one way to lean it more towards eros is to really get the whole energy body involved and expand that

Sila and Soul (Part 3) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 10 mentions

• of awareness but also to the autoeroticism in eros it's when we were unpacking the nature
• it's when we were unpacking the nature of eros i think particularly in the eros unfettered talks it's actually auto
• eroticism is a is a is an aspect a component a side of eros in other words when we have eros for something else
• component a side of eros in other words when we have eros for something else we're also enjoying our own eros or more
• when we have eros for something else we're also enjoying our own eros or more significantly we also become an erotic
• not egoistic it's a necessary part of how eros constellates so there are parallels here there's a
• self-reflexive intention with awareness with eros and with ethical action
• virtuous behavior or awareness directed towards something or other or eros towards an erotic object they will they
• right if actually i'm the sexual eros or um in in love making with someone else
• and the sense of soulmaking its potentially and the eros that we have for values

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5) - (The Mirrored Gates) 10 mentions

• uh in in one's practice in solitude and i pointed out i think it was an eros unfeted that you know there might be
• dukkah of that craving in relation to this person there is some eros but there's also a lot of craving mixed up
• right remember how we describe the whole dynamic the eros pushes on because eros wants more connection more contact more
• penetration more intimacy more touch whatever that's the pothos in the eros want it always more
• reality or we have to so to speak shut everything down shut the eros down go back to i'm just letting go or whatever
• soul so that the more that we are the eros seeks the apothes in the era seeks then
• facets and sides of the beloved and of myself and of the eros more dimensions of all that larger deeper there is more
• of the whole sensing with soul of other of self etc and of the eros itself all that is possible
• um kind of a wrong relationship with that image and what could have been eros or what started off it as eros got
• that image and what could have been eros or what started off it as eros got contracted into craving which brought

In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self - (Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire) 10 mentions

• it in some way uh so we were talking about eros eros for the path eros for awakening for if
• uh so we were talking about eros eros for the path eros for awakening for if you like the goals
• realize that allows the eros there and is there enough richness and
• there the path and awakening also of the self and also of the eros as we said these these these fantasies uh of other
• these these these fantasies uh of other self and eros in this case of path and awakening self and eros will constellate
• self and eros in this case of path and awakening self and eros will constellate together
• imaginal constellation where there is eros where's where we love where something is deeply alive for us in that
• partly uh this is fantasy because it gets enriched through the eros and through all kinds of um
• fantasy we need a fantasy of the path for there to be eros we need fantasy and if we love the path and if we love our
• but as i said where there's love where there's eros it implies fantasy and sometimes what's happened is because

Attitude, Effort, Achievement, and View - (Practising the Jhānas) 10 mentions

• loves practice and really has a good desire and an eros for for all this stuff
• familiar with this um there's actually an eros for that quality but it's eros in the in in the
• um there's actually an eros for that quality but it's eros in the in in the small definition it's this wanting more
• those of you know the song you recognize that it's it's eros okay but it's eros in the small definition because we're
• big wear expand to psychologos and everything it but it's eros in the small definition
• out outside the meditation it can you can have eros with with the fantasy with the image etc eros in the bigger
• can have eros with with the fantasy with the image etc eros in the bigger definition i.e eros there is allowed to
• the image etc eros in the bigger definition i.e eros there is allowed to stimulate psyche and logos in the whole
• at another level and coming back to the eros thing um
• um but that's part that can be there uh and it's part of the cut of eros it's part of the bigger soulmaking fantasy

Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2) - (The Mirrored Gates) 9 mentions

• um or it may be a desire or a movement of eros that it's not just that we want to feel that uh that kind of eruption of
• but also sometimes that desire or that eros we need to really study with it and really
• so rather than just this desire that heroes is this image and other eros and this
• other side you've got what we could call the prices of eros so so actually opening to the desire and the eros and
• the prices of eros so so actually opening to the desire and the eros and the erotic imagine
• um and i've talked before and particularly i think in the eros unfettered retreat
• um a person will worry that allowing eros to arise especially allowing sexual heroes to arise or allowing other
• presenting and one obviously is not not just regarding eros but specifically regarding when when the eros is sexual
• just regarding eros but specifically regarding when when the eros is sexual and so the idea of

Sila and Soul (Part 5) - (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light) 9 mentions

• at some point start to feel an erotic attraction we have eros for values for moral values
• and that eros allows instigate stimulates a soulmaking in relationship to those
• involve values as values start to stimulate the soulmaking and the eros and they
• start to include the perceptions of self or the world and ear and the eros itself i love our passion for for the values
• themselves all the all the those aspects self are the world eros start to become imaginal
• it that our eros itself our passion itself becomes imaginal and in that it gains
• realm of the ideas of values and values as ideas ideals where there's eros or values something like these kinds of
• resonance and feeling that beauty and that again through the eros that's natural there it draws us in
• same thing resonating with that opening to it the feeling was eros for it dissolving in it perhaps to some extent

Sailing the Oceans of Soul (Q & A) - (Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma) 9 mentions

• um tuning more into the sense of eros is really helpful because eros is in a way
• tuning more into the sense of eros is really helpful because eros is in a way a kind of clinging in the sentence of
• wanting which a kind of desire and so if you tune to that that sense of the eros in you the sense of desire for this
• dependent on this discernment that allows now if we talk about eros part of what eros does in relation to i realized
• allows now if we talk about eros part of what eros does in relation to i realized this morning sorry i realized that i
• didn't finish a sentence i think so there was a small definition of eros and the larger definition it means so that's
• irocycle august diameter and that is going then all that when we say eros actually all that is implied you
• here's my beloved other my image and as i said the eros once more and one of the ways it finds creates discovers creates
• perceptual sensible and conceptual that goes with eros it's part of that that whole the beauty is part of unfolding