There's no stronger desire than the desire to connect to another, but there is no another. So, the only other we're trying to connect to is ourselves. But what is that unfathomable pull to a physical being that we cannot resist nor want to? Why that face, that mind, that body? To question is futile. The only thing that's left is to experience it, "but only 100% of the time" as Byron Katie likes to put it.
The Practice
Sunday Morning - 40 minute meditation and discussion on intention and practice
Monday Morning - 15 minute meditation
Monday Evening - 1 hour yoga class
Reflection
It's harder to stay present when the mental images are so alluring. I guess that's what Ganga Ji means when she says that "disillusionment is letting go of a mistaken and often pleasurable belief." I find that with the thought of pleasure comes the immediate follow up thought of suffering. However, when I don't take the ride on one of those thoughts, the feeling is of pure love. The images are welcomed as long as they don't linger, but even when they do, it's still nothing more or less than the experience of this moment.
And so... as I ride the wave of the experience, without the expectation of getting too high or the fear of getting knocked down, I'm inside the happy medium called joy.
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