Complete Yoga of Emotional-Sexual Life

The core practices of the emotionally and sexually balanced teachings on love, intimacy, and sexual relationships from the Realized Master Avatar Adi Da Samraj

• Teaches how to overcome the emotional patterning that hinders healthy sexual relationships

• Presents a solitary yogic discipline to restore the bipolar integrity of the individual

• Shows how to entirely transcend emotional-sexual patterns

In all the domains of human life, we now understand the need for an integration of body, mind, and spirit. But despite this comprehension of the holistic nature of existence, much of the teaching offered on sexuality--even sacred sexuality--concentrates on the physical practice, to the detriment of emotional intimacy. Avatar Adi Da Samraj explains that our emotional-sexual life can only be made right through the process of restoring the bipolar balance of the body, and by transcending the ego, the illusory sense of separate existence.

He advocates that sexual practice initially become a solitary yogic discipline--an embracing and reclaiming of one's own body--to restore the bipolar integrity that is at the core of every human being. Once this bipolar integrity is established, he shows how a sexual practice of true intimacy--free of clinging attachment--is possible. He also teaches that an unconscious, early childhood reaction to the mother and father governs the emotional-sexual life, a reaction that must be understood and transcended. The emotional-sexual practices taught by Avatar Adi Da are centered in the understanding that love breaks the heart and show that learning how to have intimacy without ego-based attachment is where profound practice begins.

Autorentext

Avatar Adi Da Samraj (1939-2008) was born on Long Island, New York. In 1970, after a period of intense spiritual endeavor, he spontaneously became reestablished in the continuous state of illumination that was his unique condition at birth. After his reawakening, Adi Da began to teach. His philosophical, practical, and literary writings consist of more than 70 published books and his students have established Adidam centers around the world. Avatar Adi Da Samraj departed the body on November 26, 2008, in his hermitage sanctuary in Fiji.

Inhalt

Conventions: A Note about Avatar Adi Da's Writings

Introduction by Daniel C. Bouwmeester, MD

Prologue
My Word to All Who Would Find Heart-Breaking Freedom

Part One
The Truth About Love and Sex

Love Is Sacrifice of Separate "self"

The Addiction Affliction

As You Are Emotionally So You Are Sexually

Part Two
Understanding the Emotional-Sexual "self"

Transcend Your Invisible Script

I Call You to Go Beyond the Oedipal Sufferings of Childhood

Throw Mommy and Daddy Out of Bed

Part Three
The Wound of Love

You Must Live in the Domain of Feeling

Feel Love's Wound

Love Breaks The Heart, and That Is Where The Profound

Real Practice of Adidam Begins

Part Four
Own-Body Responsibility

The Body Is Complete in Itself

The Own-Body Yogic Sexual Practice

The Necessary Preliminary to Sex

Part Five
The Forms of Emotional-Sexual Practice in the Reality-Way of Adidam

Overview

True Yogic Intimacy

Intimate Yogic Friendship

The Practical Essence of True Yogic Intimacy and Intimate Yogic Friendship

Emotional-Sexual Conscious Exercise

Single Celibacy

Epilogue
I Am Above and Beyond, In The Bright and Greater Room

Glossary

About Avatar Adi Da Samraj

The Reality-Way of Adidam

Index