We need to investigate the aspects of our lives and romantic liaisons which we find difficult to appreciate, and open to the wisdom and compassion with which they are inherently imbued.

shopping’.

to distinguish between ‘love which has degenerated into codependence’ and ‘love which has retained its open potential’.[117]

in a relationship. As I mentioned before, you can engage in it on your own – outside a relationship.

We fear the randomisation of every last vestige of what delineates us. We need to feel that we are ongoing existent personality projects, and fear the interruption to our sense of direction.

It is the very fact of teaching being implicit within the being of one’s lover which makes it akin to the sparkling through of one’s beginningless enlightened nature.

We can accept the limits of our styles of appreciation for what they are; there is no need to crush our individuality – but as practitioners of

Dharma is found everywhere. KD That is why Dharma translates into English as – ‘as it is’.

This strange variety of tantric disorientation is one in which we find ourselves on the brink of the unknown – in the space of imminence, without hope or fear.