Lust is About Imbalance

Introduction

This is a very strange assertion: to say that lust is about an imbalance. The aim of this post is to make this statement much more understandable.

How is Lust an Imbalance?

Due to desire a need is born inside of us, and this need pushes us from inside to go and balance this desire with fulfilment or satisfaction.

Lust looks to make its desire a reality, or in other words it tries in its first attempt to find someone to satisfy or satiate its desire. Lust has the in-built need to balance its desires with real sensations or anything else that bring some satisfaction and therefore balance.

Desire Equals Imbalance

Somewhere within us there is a scale and on one side there is the desire weighing heavily and on the other side there is nothing there but an empty plate. This empty plate creates an imbalance, and as it is a law of nature to always seek a state of balance or equilibrium, the human being in this situation looks for a way to add something to the empty side of the scale so to balance the heavier side.

When we have some sort of desire we automatically imbalance the magic scale that we have inside of ourselves. If there is no desire unbalancing our scale there is no lustful action or action of compensation which in general is what the ego is.

How Does Lust Try to Balance its Desires?

Lust first of all looks to action to balance its desires. It tries to find physical satisfaction that according to the nature of lust (sexuality trapped in matter and the senses) does this using another person. If it can not do this with another person it goes into fantasy, and with fantasy the desire is fulfilled. Fantasy is nothing other than a mechanism of compensation, we act out with our fantasy what we can not do physically.

The truth or the revelation that Gnosis or an any system of in-depth esoteric self-knowledge provides us with, is that we have to learn not to depend on others to balance our inner urges and desires. One clear reason is because we can’t rely on others, they are not always there, or they are uncooperative and if we force them to comply we are doing something very wrong. So in essence, we have to learn how to balance our desires ourself and by ourselves.

How can we Balance the Natural Sexual Appetite without Lust?

We have the transmutation for that and the act of internal self-remembering. Transmuting our sexual energy transforms that desire into will, dignity, energy and well-being. When we transmute, the desire dissipates, the desire is not satisfied but rather transformed.

When the desire is transformed the heavy weight weighing down one side of our internal scale is removed and then our internal scale naturally balances itself. So that is the trick.

If lust wants attention from another person in order to get some sensation then we are once again unbalanced and we have to balance ourselves once again to arrive at peace.

The trick here is to give that attention to ourselves, that is to our own sexual energy or sexuality. That is to give it attention with conscious love, which is an attention that does not corrupt and does not cause the person to fall into vice. In other words to appreciate your sexual energy, to accept it, to care for it, and to transmute it enjoying how it enhances our inner Being. This is self-remembering; to recognise the great divine power that there is in sexuality and in our sexual energy.

Conclusion

When we experience sexual desire we end up getting unbalanced, and when we also feed that desire through impressions, fantasy and thoughts we get even further unbalanced. So like many other egos lust is a way of bringing balance to this imbalance that we create inside of ourselves. The key is understand this and then to go about balancing this ourselves by ourselves without lust and with or without another human being, either way (with or without another) it is done and can be done without lust. This is best and this will show you that you don’t need lust to manage your sexuality and you can take steps to eliminate it.

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