Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex

You are deeper than your life shows, and you know it. You are more loving than your relationships allow, more brilliant than your career suggests. In your secret depth of being, you are infinite, creative, boundless and utterly unable to press your full glory into the world. Or so it seems.

In Blue Truth, David Deida presents a treasury of skills and insights for uncovering and offering your true heart of purpose, passion, and unquenchable love. In Part One, Deida shows you how to open as the entirety of the moment, feeling as deep inside and as far outside as you can, for as long as now opens. In Part Two, he reveals how to walk this path in the wilderness of intimate relationship, illuminating the art and play of sexual gifting, including how to expertly navigate the tangle of anger, jealousy, fear, lust, and much, much more.
“Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference,” teaches David Deida.  With Blue Truth, you have an unprecedented guide for living your own deep truth, and awakening “as the bare openness you are, in the free offering of love to all.”
 
Blue Truth was named by Spirituality & Health Magazine (June 2006 issue) as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005, in the Personal Growth category.
 
Table of Contents
 
Life & Death

1. Love Fully and Die
2. Feel Before Memory
3. Give Everything Now
4. Unfold Your Heart
5. Resist Nothing
6. Breathe Everything
7. Wear Everyone’s Shape
8. Offer Yourself as Love
9. Unclench as if Asleep
10. Relax as You Are
11. Honor Your Depth
12. Open While Failing
13. Appreciate Dissatisfaction
14. Don’t Wait for Perfection
15. Do Love Through Your Body
16. Be Reminded by Jealousy
17. Express Who You Really Are
18. Live as Love
19. Remain Open When Disgusted
20. Undo All Effort

 
Love & Sex

1. Allow Love’s Hurt
2. Recognize Your Refusal
3. Let Love Live as Anger
4. Permit Your Heart’s Wild Passion
5. Live Your Heart’s Truth
6. Ravish Beyond Safety
7. Enjoy Flowery Combat
8. Unguard Your Sex
9. Don’t Settle for Fulfillment
10. Be Free as Love Now
11. Shine as Love’s Light
12. Play Sexuality as Art
13. Open Deeper Than Need
14. Trust Him More Than Yourself
15. Exaggerate Sex to Liberate Love
16. Hold Nothing Back
17. Offer Sex for the Sake of All
18. Awaken Sexually as Bliss and Emptiness
19. Be Alive as Gifting

 
 
Praise
 
“Blue Truth is a brilliant book, absolutely gorgeous.  Ancient wisdom on sacred sexuality, freed of historical and cultural trappings, glows from these pages in exhilarating, luminous prose.  Deida brilliantly lays bare the hidden psychology of feminine and masculine and offers clear instructions for tapping into our deepest core and achieving true harmony through sexual intimacy.  I feel that Deida has reached a new level of poetic genius in his writing, and his understanding of feminine psychology astounds me.  I am just knocked out by this book.”
—Miranda Shaw, PhD, author of Passionate Enlightenment:  Women in Tantric Buddhism
 
“David Deida 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 Deida’s 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, bestselling author of Awakening the Buddha Within
 
“The openness, the love!  What lively new language David Deida finds for the unsayable.”
—Coleman Barks, author of The Essential Rumi