TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

"These are the tattvas of contact, sight, taste, smell, andhearing. These tattvas are subject to intense activity all daylong, and we usually have a well-developed awareness ofthem. Nevertheless, none of them alone seems to us worthyof really practicing in full consciousness. We aren't fullyconscious of our skin. We aren't fully conscious of all thatour eyes see. We aren't fully conscious of the taste of thefood we swallow, the lips and the limbs of those we embrace.In the world of sounds, we have only a very limitedconsciousness. If we close our eyes and really listen, wherewould consciousness stop? Until we let ourselves be carriedby sounds, consciousness is closed to the infinite."We subject these five tattvas to compulsions. We losetheir richness. Everything is rushed. How long since we'vedelighted in eating a piece of fruit? How long since kissing'smade us lose our breath, feel dizzy, and blush as a wave ofenergy surges through our bodies? How long since our lipshave traveled up and down the whole body of the one welove? How long since we've smelled the world? How longsince we've sensed a being's distress or joy by the odor?How long since we've lost ourselves looking at the marvelouswings of a butterfly, at the clouds, at the stars, at thebark on a tree, or into the eyes of another human being?How long since we've understood what another humanbeing says to us, not by the words but by the inflections ofthe voice, its timbre and tone?"Without a deep connection with these things, the heartis not opened. All that we exclude from our experiencebecause of principle, belief, fear, ideals, ignorance, or lackof attention feeds our protective systems, which are slowlytransformed into prisons. The day comes when we are so76