Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Pleasure

Learning to Love
Is practicing Pleasure
Following true Pleasure
Of the body, of the soul
While listening to the other
To the self and to the other
And following pleasure
Always pleasure
Of the whole.

One learns thereby
Via the magic synchronicities that nourish our Trust
That pleasure
Sought with the knowledge
That the other is in essence oneself
Equates to service
True service
Not mandatory good-doing
Not the mythical, martyred, nor self-ignoring altruism.
It's service
Of the self and of the whole
With the knowledge that the unit
Grows not truly
Is not truly
Without the whole.
We grow together.
For we are one.

Practicing true search of pleasure
Unabashed, uninhibited, unhindered by the imagined expectations of others
Softly, gradually, at the pace of nature,
Teaches one to trust in the signals of the self
Those subtle signals I don't know a word for
The length of an instant
The strength of a wisp
Those silent voices so often waysided
For they have no argument like those of the mind.
They do not justify nor persuade.
They are. For an instant.

Those tiny inner voices
Nevertheless guide us clear
From the depths of our truth
If we dare to listen and trust.

That which one truly desires
That one hides because it shines so much
That we fear others will stare
That we fear others will laugh
That we fear others will condemn
That we fear to try lest we fail
That we fear to try lest we were wrong
That we fear to try lest we succeed.
That desire.
THAT desire.
In the large and in the small.
In the now and overall.
Yes, that desire.
Find it and
Unhusk it to the core,
To unveil yourself of the delusion
That you desire a proxy
Instead of what you really really want.

Unhusk it via Why.
Why do I desire that?
For which reason or which purpose?
Find the true reason or purpose,
Discard the husk, now follow the trail...
Why do I desire THAT?
Discard the husk, now follow the trail...
Why do I desire THAT?
And so on.
And so on.
Until you reach that shining, essential
Aim or Longing
Reasonless, purposeless
That one desires because one desires because one desires.
Then follow THAT.

Feel and listen, as the aim
Moves and morphs with time
Yet keep your attention on it
Keep following it
Evermore.
Thus Live you through a sparkling path of
Purpose and Pleasure in the Truth of the Search.
Thus Live you
In Love.

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