Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category

Great to be The Unique Self: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in California. Just finished teaching at a wonderful spiritual center. The public teaching was a dharma track which I have been evolving – even as it has been evolving me – for almost twenty years, calle ...

The Meaning of Friendship: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 14th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Anything less than this erotic experience may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Nations mass murder other nations. We rape the environment and allow twenty million people to die of hunger or related diseases a year. The simple ...

Anything Less than Eros may destroy our planet: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Tomorrow we will – God willing- start the next stage of our journey of Eros. We will try and begin to understand what it all means; How Eros and Sexuality and Love are related. Why sexuality is so frightening to so many people, how it becomes a ...

Do You Know What I Need? : Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Do You Know what I Need? Do I Know What You Need? The master Moshe Leib of Sassov said he never knew what it meant to be a lover until he learned it from a drunkard. It happened that the master was in a tavern and overheard a dialogue between two men ...

All Evil is a Failure of Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 11th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

All Evil is a Failure of Love Teaches Isaac Luria, the great kabbalist writing in 16th century Safed, “All evil is a failure of love and all love is a failure of eros. I can only hurt you if I feel that you are not connected to me. Would the hand s ...

Why do I care so much about Eros someone wrote me: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Why do I care so much about Eros? Because anything less than Eros may well destroy our planet. We abuse each other personally. Men who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness of the moment, rape women. Women who are not evolved, lost in the emptiness ...

Love is the Eros of Connection: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 6th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In the last twenty-five years, an enormous amount of serious scientific investigation has been done into what is called non-local distance healing. It involves the ability of a person at great distances to affect healing. The effect of the many scien ...

Non Local Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 6th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

This fourth principle of eros which I called in my earlier writing Interconnectivity might be better renamed as Wholeness. Interconnectivity means that there is not part that is merely a part and not part of a larger whole. there is not part that is ...

The Temple Hijacks the Energy Center: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 4th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Fourth Face of Eros: The Interconnectivity of Being Patterns that Connect= Magic= Eros= Love. Longing, desire and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected. No human stands alone. ...

Desire is Holy: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 4th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Yo! A good and beautiful week to everyone. i have just last week a beautiful Sabbath in Marin County. One of the more beautiful places on our planet. And i was able to spend time ...

Ecstasy and Magic: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 4th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

At this point then it does not surprise us to learn that in the Temple myth it is said that the Holy of Holies is the place of the Even Shetiya, the foundation stone of the world. In myth, it is that stone, symbol of Eros, which holds the world toget ...

Patterns that Connect: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 4th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Fourth Face of Eros: The Interconnectivity of Being Patterns that Connect Longing, desire and tears remind us of the fourth strand in the erotic weave. They whisper to us that we are all interconnected. No human stands alone. The word “religion ...

To yearn is to be aflame: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 2nd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com For the Hebrew mystic, unlike his Buddhist or Greek cousins, desire and longing are sacred. Eros is the yearning force of being. I yearn therefore I am. To be cut off from the er ...

I yearn therefore I am: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 2nd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com For me to yearn is to sing. When I was 16 and 17 years old I would wander the streets of Riverdale New York singing songs of yearning from the midnight hour often until nearly da ...

The Eros of Yearning: Marc Gafni

Posted on: September 2nd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Yearning Force of Being The mystical tradition knows to tell of time portals, each capable of accessing different regions of our interior castle. The mystical masters underst ...