is it possible to be horny, but NOT in a state of craving??🤔 or is hornyness by definition an embodiment of craving?🤔🤔
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yes i think so! i think horniness can be this total openness of sexual energy, it can be desirous without being craving
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Agreed. You can totally practice this too: getting hyper aroused and then just being with the sensations of the heightened energy. There's a skill to bypassing the mind's craving thing and just being with what is.
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yall's responses including rosalind's are making me think that perhaps there are different levels of richness to the feeling "horny" and maybe the craving-driven type is by default less open...
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yes! generally i think a lot of people’s experiences of emotional states are like that state + collapsed awareness, e.g. when people say anger they mean anger + collapsed awareness, when people say horny they mean horny + collapsed awareness, on and on
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does that essentially mean that more expanded awareness allows us access to different dimensions of emotional states?
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i think so! people talk about this using language like “transforming the kleshas,” here’s an example
vividness.live/unclogging-and
