Light is what love LOOKS like.

"Light is what love LOOKS like . . . Light is the APPEARANCE of love."

David Deida
Kashmiri Tantric teacher

Photo: Sunset at First Beach, Quillayute Reservation, La Push, WA; July 26, 2013

Use erotic desire to penetrate the world with love.

"Inhale the energy of erotic desire into your heart, and then feel outward from your heart, feeling the world as if it were your lover.  With an exhale, move into the world and penetrate it, skillfully and spontaneously, opening it into love.  . . . Make love with the world in this way, all day, pervading and dissolving all unease.  Feel the world against your body like a naked woman, vulnerable and alive, and allow the front of your body to press into and through the world's body, liberating the knots of accumulated pain . . . Feeling through and through and through is your only freedom . . . A man's attraction to the feminine must be converted from attraction TO the feminine into attraction THROUGH the feminine . . . The very light of your consciousness shines as the world, and it is looking back at you, appearing as woman . . . Your ultimate desire is for the union of masculine consciousness with its own feminine luminosity, wherein all appearance is recognized as your deep, blissful nature . . . Like a slingshot, the momentum of your desire can be used to deliver you to the Source."

David Deida, 

teacher of Kashmiri tantra

Photo:  "The Phallus," Dewey Bridge Member of Entrada sandstone from the Jurassic Period; Arches National Park, UT; November 26, 2012

Radiance is the core of the Feminine.

"Radiance is the core of the Feminine.  Whether appearing in the vision of a flower, a rainbow, a man or a woman, there is a certain mysterious quality of grace, shine and beauty that can best be described as 'radiance' . . . But it is the inherent radiance of LOVE itself that is the true Feminine core . . . How, then do we magnify our inherent radiance?  By relaxing into our loving heart.  We must learn to let go of our resistances, and give love . . . As we do so, our shine becomes brighter and brighter. The core of the Feminine is this brightness of love."

David Deida

Photo: Golden Aspen trees above Maroon Lake, Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness, CO; September 23, 2012

Light is what love looks like. Love is what light feels like.

"Light is what love looks  like . . . Love is what light feels like."

David Deida

Photo: View from the slopes of Deer Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; September 30, 2012

Penetrate Through the World with Loving Awareness in Order to Find the Underlying Spaciousness Upon Which All Things Shimmer

"Inhale the energy of lust into your heart, and then feel outward from your heart, feeling the world as if it were your lover.  With an exhale, move into the world and penetrate it, skillfully and spontaneously, opening it into love . . . Make love with the world in this way, all day, pervading and dissolving all unease.  Feel the world against your body like a naked woman, vulnerable and alive, and allow the front of your body to press into and through the world's body, liberating the knots of accumulated pain . . .The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates a woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness and depth.

"Feel through your pleasure, as well as through the space around it and behind it, into the ocean upon which it shimmers . . . Practice easing your attention and penetrating through things, as if feeling through the deck of a boat into the deep rhythms of the sea, or relaxing your gaze through the objects reflected in a window pane so you can know the vast landscape behind them.  Every object of your attention floats in a boundless space of being.  Ease your attention through every experience so you can know and feel this depth of openness.  Feel through the transparency of things into the inherent spaciousness in which they shimmer, as if feeling into an underlying ocean of silence.

David Deida, Kashmiri Tantric Buddhist

Photo: Phallic monolith and the Henry Mountains, Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 27, 2011