PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF DAVID DEIDA
David Deida must have the biggest balls in contemporary spirituality.
Vijay Rana, The Watkins Review
As a woman, Ive never felt so understood and validated.
Marci Shimoff, Co-Author of
Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul
The openness, the love! What lively new language David Deida finds for the unsayable!
Coleman Barks, Author of The Essential Rumi
Every once in a while, someone comes along whose work is clearly a next step. Their ideas seem to answer some collective question hanging out in the culture. Their books and seminars become an underground buzz, and within a period of time, their ideas become part of our cultural vernacular. David Deida is such a person. In a time not too far off from now, his ideas will have spread like wildfire.
Marianne Williamson, Author of A Return to Love
There are few categories I know of for an original like David Deida; for his teachings there is no pigeonhole. He is a bridge-builder between East and West, between ancient and modern wisdom traditions. David is in the dynamic living oral tradition of maverick spiritual teachers who, like free-jazz musicians, can riff directly on Reality, outside of established forms. Mark my words: in a future that I hope is not too far off, David Deidas original western Dharma will be widely known as one of the most sublime and accessible expressions of the essence of spiritual practice that is freely offered today.
Lama Surya Das, Author of Awakening the Buddha Within
David Deidas teachings on this central human concern, sexuality, emanate from a deeply trustworthy source. He has undergone his own rigorous training and practice, which manifests in precise, gentle, and thorough teachings. Like Zen, the fruition of Davids work is openness, compassion, and love.
Genpo Roshi, Author of The Eye Never Sleeps
David Deidas work reveals a depth of loving the human condition and understanding its immanent spirituality Ive seldom seen, even in a glimmer. Its hard for me to find words with which to express my appreciation and admiration for this unique gift.
Jenny Wade, Ph.D., Author of Changes of Mind
David Deida brings spirituality down from the clouds and back into our bodies where it belongs. His no-nonsense approach to refining our spiritual sensibilities comes as a welcome intervention to both New Age and conservative trends in contemporary spirituality. Deida helps us to get REAL in a world where reality is an increasingly rare commodity.
Mariana Caplan, Author of Halfway Up the Mountain:
The Error of Premature Claims to Enlightenment
I feel that Deida has reached a new level of poetic genius in his writing, and his understanding of feminine psychology astounds me.
Miranda Shaw, Ph.D., Author of
Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism
David Deida is a Jewel in the crown of those that are willing to live the Truth beyond trying to escape into the Absolute. If you want to know how deeply we can open to God, and how drastically this can be mirrored in our daily lives, then David is your companion where others fear to tread.
Vartman, Author of Unreasonable Happiness
ALSO BY DAVID DEIDA
BOOKS
The Way of the Superior Man
A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
Dear Love
A Womans Guide to Men, Sex, and Loves Deepest Bliss
Blue Truth
A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Intimate Communion
Awakening Your Sexual Essence
Finding God Throuh Sex
Awakening the One of Spirit Through the Two of Flesh
Wild Nights
Conversations with Mykonos about Passionate Love, Extraordinary Sex, and How to Open to God
The Enlightened Sex Manual
Sexual Skills for the Superior Lover
It's a Guy Thing
An Owners Manual for Women
AUDIO
Enlightened Sex
Finding Freedom & Fullness through Sexual Union
The Teaching Sessions: The Way of the Superior Man
Revolutionary Tools and Essential Exercises for Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
WEBSITE
deida.info
IMPORTANT CAUTION
Please Read This
The exercises in this book are provided for reading pleasure and entertainment only. If readers choose to engage in these exercises, they do so at their own risk. Although anyone may find the exercises and understandings in this book to be entertaining, they are made available with the understanding that neither the author nor the publisher are engaged in presenting specific medical, psychological, emotional, sexual, or spiritual advice. Nor is anything in this book intended to be a diagnosis, prescription, recommendation, or cure for any specific kind of medical, psychological, emotional, sexual, or spiritual problem. Each person has unique needs and this book cannot take these individual differences into account. Each person should engage in a program of treatment, prevention, cure, or general health only in consultation with a licensed, qualified physician, therapist, or other competent professional.
INTRODUCTION
If you want true happiness, here it is.
Enlightenment is free. It is love. It is openness.
And it is now, just as you are. This book will prove it to you, and show you how.
Enlightenment is always instant and sudden.
And usually forgotten, just as suddenly.
So repeat these brief exercises, which are often fast, endlessly deep, and sometimes downright sexy.
With humor, do them again and again, until you know that you are love. You are free. And you cant do anything less than give it away.
For the rest of your life, relax open this instantwhile touching, eating, talking, and right now.
In short moments repeated often, unceasingly feel the openness of love that you are. In this way, you live as a gift to everyone.
Enlightenment is instant, but its expression evolves and deepens endlessly.
Pick a chapter, any chapter, and begin now.
GOD
What does it mean to open to God, or to love God?
Imagine somebody you love the most in your life, perhaps your child, your mother, your lover, or your best friend. Feel what it is to love that person.
Now, pick an object near you, like this book, or the floor beneath you, or a nearby pillow. Love whatever object you choose with the same intensity with which you love your most-loved person.
You may feel strange loving a book, floor, or pillow so fully, but you can do it. Practice loving until you feel your chosen object with the same love you offer your most-loved person.
When you can love an object as fully as your most-loved person, then practice loving the space around you. Love the space extending in front of you, behind you, left and right of you, above and below you. Love outwardly in all directions, with the same feeling with which you open to your most-loved person.
Then practice loving everything within youeven your darkest secret places of shame and perversitywith the same love you offer to your most-loved person. This may take some time, or you may be able to do it right away.