Love of the Two-Armed Form: The Free and Regenerative Function of Sexuality in Ordinary Life, and the Transcendence of Sexuality in True Religious

This is a collection of talks and essays by Adi Da on human emotions, love and "sexuality" taken in a broad sense. There is a great deal of content here but there are at least two aspects to the consideration that really spoke to me: The first is about our open and whole body participation in the energetic and full dimension of life, which is a tangible expression of divine consciousness. Usually we habituate to a very small spectrum of feeling and its associated phenomena (thoughts, body sense, and limited emotions) as opposed to living the full spectrum of our possibilities as human beings. "When the individual is frustrated, it is Life in him that is suppressed. The Force of Life is naturally expansive, moving, blissful, and undefined. But frustration or suppression of the feeling being, the whole body, tends to create an equal and opposite reaction, in the form of reactive contractions of attention(into forms of thought) and emotions (into reactive forms, such as fear, sorrow, guild, anger, and self-doubt) and body ( into genital tension and organ and muscle tensions or dis-eases all over the body)...Instead, ecstasy is realized in Divine Communion moment to moment, and the reactivity of the body mind is thereby undermined and made penetrable by the Force of Life. Thus, the devote is not obliged to solve the problems created by the chronic reactivity, but he penetrates reactivity with living force, and he lives a happy life of love and service and constant Fullness in God (100-101, Love of the two Armed Form)" The other aspect has more to do with understating our ritual reactions to how we relate with others in a form of self bondage and other binding activity. Because we feel vulnerable to others we always protect the heart and interpret unavoidable hurts as reasons for punishment (directed at the other and ourselves) or withdrawal. This is one of the primal expression of our self contraction (self centered activity), and thus one of the primarily means to understand and transcend that activity. This quote is from another book, but it sums up the point well: "The Eogic Ritual Calls every individual To Defend himself or herself Against The Wounds of Love and the Wounding Signs of Un-Love (or eogic self Contraction) In the daily world...The necessary Prerequisites for such Relinquishment [giving up this ritual, my insertion] Are Vulnerability (or The Ability To Feel The Wounds of Love Without Retaliation), Sensitivity To the other in Love (or The Ability To Sympathetically Observe, Understand, Forgive, Love, and Not Punish or Dissociate From the other in Love), and Love Itself (or The Ability To Love, To Know You Are Loved, To Receive Love, and To Know That Both You and the other, Regardless of Any Appearance To The Contrary, Are Vulnerable and In need Of Love) (368-369, Dawn Horse Testament, 1st ed.)" If this seems interesting to you, I think you'll enjoy the book.

The early teachings on Sexuality offered by then Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj) on this most interesting subject matter in the context of a life purposes to self-transcending God-Realization. A classic of profound spiritual wisdom and human heart sanity. Adi Da Samraj went on over the years to greatly elaborate wisdom about human emotional-sexual life in books such as Compulsory Dancing: Talks and Essays on the Spiritual and Evolutionary Necessity of Emotional Surrender to the Life-Principle The Complete Yoga of Emotional-Sexual Life: The Way Beyond Ego-Based Sexuality The True Transcending of Sex and the Entire Body-Mind (The Basket of Tolerance Booklet Series) The scale of the very small: Establishing yogic responsibility for your reproductive potential