Lust and Love
What is lust? How do I tell the difference between lust and love?
It's a good question, isn't it? My goodness I wonder what the Church’s answer to that one is, and all the people who lay it down. What is the difference between lust and love, or the nature-al desire of love expressing itself?
Lust is in the head. The head never made love, only talked about it or thought about it. Lust is generated in the head. If you think about sex, which to me is love, you think back and therefore picture pictures in the future, if you think like that about sex or another human body of the opposite sex, then that is the beginning of lust.
All sex shops begin in the head, not in this beautiful body, which is whole and total, including head and the rest of it. There is no lust in this beautiful body when it is whole, when head and body are connected into one functioning process.
There is desire as the desire for food, the desire to breathe, the desire for many things that are nature-al, and the desire for love. But there is no need to think about the desire for love, is there? You can feel love and if that love should be sometimes interpreted as desire, for love is desire, the desire for union at all levels of one's being, physical, psychic and spirit, you can feel that desire if you don't think about it, don't put an image to it. Then there is no lust. Then action happens. You pick up the phone, you do something about it, or you don’t. And if you arrange a meeting, or if you don't do anything about it, you don't think about it. You just stay with the sensation of the desire.
And that is pleasant, isn't it? Isn't the sensation of desire, of love, or love itself which is desire, pleasant in your body?
It is as long as you don’t think.
~ an extract from Tamborine Mountain Talks, Oct 1989
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