Pleasure

Because there's that sense of shame coupled with my pleasure is not meant for me, it's meant for someone else.

And so that's something that we have to dispel that myth that really I deserve pleasure.

Pleasure is my birthright.

And so and that's coupled with a sense of shame because of like, oh, really, I didn't know that.

Right.

sure.

Now, your podcast is called In the Pause.

Pleasure in the Pause.

Well, that's going to take some of my time.

Are you there? Pleasure.

So in attempting to educate us about destiny, Paul takes us first of all into the past.

Please help me tell your neighbor that your destiny reaches first into the past before it reaches into the future.

He let the air take it.

Pleasure arrived as a fact in the body and stayed there.

Heat stacked.

The jaw unlocked and locked again.

You've got Dharma, which is doing the right thing, Artha, which is prosperity, Moksha, which is the ultimate spiritual liberation, and Kama, which is pleasure.

That's right.

Pleasure made the top four list of life goals.

Take the Kama Sutra, written somewhere between 200 and 400 CE.

Most people think it's an ancient sex position manual, but it's actually way more sophisticated than that.

am i enjoying today is it all well go to go to that arthur because that's an a grappling that i find even very wise people having with the delayed gratification aspect yeah i don't want to delay it all out here that we may never get to so we want some but but give us reconcile that a little bit well

that that really is the difference between pleasure and enjoyment and it sounds like you know kind of splitting hairs right but it's not it's not logic chopping really the way that it works is Pleasure is is a phenomenon that proceeds from a part of your brain called the limbic system.

That's a that's a console of tissue deep inside your brain.

That's really one job, which is taking information from the outside, which you see and smell in here, which is all autonomic.

And it is certainly curious to speculate about encounters between men and women, or women and women whatever, that are based on a notion of pure pleasure.

Please remember the theme, the logline.

of my upcoming book, Pleasure Equals Spirituality Which Brings Empowerment.

Empowerment.

Empowerment for the individual, empowerment for two people should they become a couple.

But it all begins with pleasure.

Pleasure is not about calculation.

Pleasure is not about the marketplace.

Where did our agency go? Where did the sense we have that we are free, free rational beings making choices? Remember that? That anthropology? Often in my coaching practice, the question I ask people is, what would the wisest part of you say? Right? We have an intuition that there are unwise parts of ourselves and that those things want what much of modernity wants to sell us they want uh dopamine hits right dopamine treats they want ease they want comfort they want convenience they want um affirmation and flattery essentially they want uh pleasure in the in the um least costly form available right And the way we have set up our lives to satisfy the least wise parts of ourselves, and I would say it is the least wise part of me that is very prepared or risks being very prepared to let AI tools, to cede large parts of my work and thinking to AI tools.

When the wisest part of me and these old wisdom traditions in ways that in modern terms can sound quite scoldy, right? Can sound quite judgy.

Can sound like anti-pleasure, anti-sex, anti-all of the things that we definitely want in some form.

But the wise versions of those wisdom traditions, I'm hearing more and more clearly as saying, the struggle is

important,