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  1. You can, with practice, pull the energy of the sperm and reabsorb the energy and then ejaculate the fluid. It takes practice. But, if your woman really cares for you, she will understand. There are other ways to receive love besides ejaculation. Good thought...you can only love others authentically when you love yourself first. That is a difficult lesson to learn so good on you.

     

    Love is never, ever lost. If it was, was it really love?

     

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    I do not have sex with my girlfriend, because she is not of age, and honestly I think vaginas are gross. Like, I fainted in health class, lol.

     

    However, we do dry humping and such, lol, laugh if you will.

     

    The problem is, the burst of hormonal imbalance causes problems for me, including eyesight problems and chin acne.

     

    So, I am a little hesitant about praticing this ejaculating the fluid while concerving the energy.

     

    Is this practicable while simply masturbating? I have increased my ability to delay the ejaculation.


  2. Hello,

     

    I am still relatively new to this wonderful forum. I had a thought today, and I wanted to put my question here, so that people who are still searching for their "Way" can gain some insight on what made YOU choose your path into the Way.

     

    Let me explain: There are so many different practices out there; Nei Kung, Qi Gong, Tai Chi, Yoga, Taoist Yoga, the martial arts, zazen, etc.

     

    Tell me, what did you go through to determine what was right for you?

     

    I'll go first.

     

    I am sure that I am one of the least accomplished in terms of knowledge of the tao and all the myriad concepts. Most of the forums here, I've got google up beside them and am typing in every other term I come across.

     

    I've experimented with meditation, qi gong, tai chi, and yoga. I learned about the chakras and kundalini and found that this suits me.

     

    Now, I am a Scorpio born in the Year of the Horse with a Vata constitution, so I've been given a triple whammy of restlessness. Before you say anything, I did not check my date of birth out and figure out what I was or take some "Which one are yoU?" tests online. I've studied all of these "new age" concepts and have found all of them to be very valid systems. Though if I had to choose one, the Chinese Zodiac seems the most vague, even with its monthly and secret animals, its too screwy for me.

     

    Going on, I find that I have the most trouble with stillness cultivation and meditative techniques, and I favor yoga and tai chi, walking meditation, and observing nature. I can go very deep inside of myself when I want to, but I have not developed as much endurance as I'd like with meditation.

     

    Please feel free to comment on my experience, and please please please post yours!

     

    Namaste


  3. but is only my left leg which is the leg on top of the right that gets numb but something strange is happening when i touch my left leg in the calf area i feell very litle is if like its stil numb and its been the for some days what could this be do people go through this process too

     

    Hey man, check out the electricenergy link I gave you. It provides a lot of information on learning how to sit in postures that are unusual for us westerners.

     

    Basically, take it slow. Practice becoming more flexible. Until you can comfortably sit in full lotus, don't strain yourself. There's nothing wrong with the other positions. Full lotus is a big help with keeping upright, so i'd definitely go for it!


  4. That would be wrongly understood Buddhism. This is not what the Buddha taught. He taught to see through the appearance of things, to escape ignorance, not the world. Why did he say that Samsara is Nirvana then? Nirvana is not escape, except escape from ignorance, but it's really just right understanding of the world and thus true insight into the nature of things. There really is no escape, there is only climbing the latter of awareness of the nature of things.

     

    Ah ok! That sounds very nice! While we are at it, how was my interpretation of Taoism?


  5. That would depend upon what sort of "effects" you are a looking for.

     

    http://www.holistic-online.com/yoga/hol_yoga_pos_siddhasana.htm

     

    This is a good site concerning yogic poses and practices like siddhasana.

     

    As for the third eye, here is how you open it.

     

    http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/open.php

     

    Start by learning how to open your chakras. You must start with the root chakra. Nothing can be achieved until your root chakra is in balance.

     

    Take your time. Do not be in a hurry to reach any goal. Sit in siddhasana, do the mudras, and learn about yourself. You are a great mystery in yourself. Boundless and limitless, you will surprise yourself at every turn. These are not empty flowery words. I promise, there are powers within you that you have never dreamed of.

     

    I hope these links will help you. Remember, the worst thing you can do is try to rush your practices. In the end, it really won't matter whether it took four months, four years or forty years.

     

    Namaste


  6. Well, many people consider "Fight Club" to be a movie steeped in Taoist principles.

     

    The Narrator takes classes on Buddhist meditation and "escaping" from this plane of existence. In the movie, Tyler spills an acidic chemical on the Narrator's hand. In response, the Narrator attempts to retreat into his "spirit cave" and find his "power animal." Tyler is very distraught by this and tells him, "Don't deal with this like those dead people do! THIS is your burning hand. THIS is your reality."

     

    Buddhism seems to be about escaping the world around us, which is full of suffering and death.

     

    Taoism is about embracing the natural world, breaking all the fetters of reality, and becoming one with the world around us.


  7. Well, I have been skinny my whole life.

     

    I am 5'11" and a year ago I weighed 152lbs.

     

    After a year of training and giving up dairy products, I weigh 136lbs.

     

    I lost most of it in my legs. My thighs are nothing but muscle.

     

    I do yoga, tai chi, and other qi cultivating exercises.


  8. So, I've discovered that I have the amazing ability to make myself think I have health problems, which are really all in my mind.

     

    Ex. I used to get stomachaches all the time, until one day I was like "no more stomachaches!" and they were gone!

     

    Now, I was tested for scholeosis (sp?) four/five years ago, and it was determined that I was fine, even though I do have a little curviture in my spine.

     

    Presently, I am experiencing some annoying back pain that I am fairly sure is just caused by stress and paranoia. My question is, how do I get this stress out of my body? I seem to put the stress somewhere (my stomach, now my back) instead of getting rid of it.

     

    Any advice?

     

    Also, I have a strange, bone-hard lump inside the back of my neck, right next to the spine just under the skull. It is akin to a much smaller lump on the left side. Is this a stress lump?


  9. I'm a bit of a star wars fan, so I'm going to run with this for a bit........

     

    The thing about Anakin Skywalker specifically, was that he didn't want cool powers with no real work. He wanted powers to HELP people. This is looked at a bit more in the expanded universe than in the movies (which portrayed this horribly). Basically, he didn't want people to die. His mother died, and he was powerless to help. He never wanted that to happen again. His master, Obi-Wan, was skilled, but Anakin, being the "chosen one", thought he was better, so he was always willing to get his master out of any rough situations.

     

    During the Clone Wars, Anakin would rarely, if ever, let the clone troopers under his command do anything. Anakin would usually rush in on his own, and try to clean up the place for himself, because he didn't want to see anyone die when he could have done something himself.

     

    Later on, with his wife, he saw visions of her dying, the same thing that happened with his mother. He did not want his wife to die. So he turned to his masters and asked for advice, how to gain powers, how to prevent people from dying. And what answers did he receive?

     

    "Well people live and people die. It's the natural way of things."

     

    To which he responded, "well what if you really, really care about someone, and you don't want them to die?"

     

    "Well it's good to have compassion for things, but you should learn to let things go...."

     

    To which he responded, "well what if you really, really, REALLY cared about someone, and you wanted to get stronger to prevent them from getting hurt?"

     

    "You should not hold a selfish love for any one particular thing, nor should you seek to amass power to hold on to that thing. Such attachment is not the jedi way."

     

    (does any of this sound familiar? :P)

     

    Of course, something the Jedi did not understand were Anakin's true motivations. In episode I, Qui-Gon Jinn explains how in more advanced planets, Jedi are found at birth and taken from their parents. No Jedi in Anakin's time had ever experienced the personal connection between a child and mother, nor between a specific individual. No Jedi properly understood how Anakin felt.

     

    Instead, they responded with the textbook answer:

     

    "It's not right to seek power."

     

    He tried to tell people how he just HAD to be made a Jedi master. But he DIDN'T tell them that the reason he had to be a master was so that he could access restricted information involving force powers which might possibly be used to save his wife- and having a wife, or any sort of attachment like that, was forbidden to the jedi.

     

    So what did Anakin do? He looked for someone who understood him (and if you think about it, Palpatine really did understand Anakin better than the Jedi, which is why he could manipulate Anakin so easily). He looked for someone who would offer him something that he could not find for the Jedi.

     

    If you look in the expanded universe, that's how a LOT of sith are created- their teachers just sling textbook responses their way, they do not seek to understand the frustration their students are feeling, they do not attempt to teach to the student, and in "doing what's best" for the student, they drive them in the opposite direction.

     

     

    The same thing is happening in real life. In many cases, right here on this forum. Rather than seeking to understand people, they just sling the textbook answer.

     

    I have experimented with a few things in the past. I personally have a very good understanding about the use and misuse of power. When I see people misusing power, it affects me very strongly. But that's just from my personal experience. I don't have the authority or power to make people see things my way, to make them act in the way I'd act, or to stop them from doing anything wrong. I don't know if I'd even want to do that if I had the power to do so. I personally don't know what I'd do in a given situation involving "powers". However, I have a good idea of what I WOULDN'T do.

     

    Ha, I saw your quote down below, and knew I'd made the right choice.

     

    I very much like the way you think.


  10. His question was: how to open the third eye.

     

    Your answer was: if one is closed, the others cannot be opened (which means that, if one is closed, the others are also closed).

     

    Which then begs the question: how do you open them?

     

    If you had answered the question, we wouldn't be left with the question we started with.....

     

    It's fine if you want to explain the reason for why chakra(s) might be closed. But if you fail to explain how you can use that knowledge to then open a chakra/s, then you didn't answer the question.......

     

    So: care to elaborate on how to open the chakras? If opening the third eye requires opening the other chakras, then how does one go about doing that?

     

    Ha! I see your point! Let me help...

     

    http://www.eclecticenergies.com/chakras/open.php

     

    I refuse to tell anyone how to do anything. I used to listen to peoples' instructions, and I never got anywhere. I said screw it and stopped going on forums. I spent a lot of time with myself, and I learned more that way than I think I ever would have trolling forums.

     

    To elaborate, get the information you need, but I consider it a mistake to ask someone to tell you how to make your own energies perform the way you want. You know the answer. You've ALWAYS known it.

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  11. Hey man!

     

    I'm the guy who you didn't want to offend on the other forum!

     

    i think that if someone posts a topic like, "How do I open my third eye," then we should show concern for that person's well-being. If he does not understand some part of it, then he will only cause damage to himself.

     

    I like using the (probably over-used) Anakin Skywalker metaphor, where a person just wants to have the cool "powers" without any of the real work.

     

    These "powers" should not be passed around without discretion. Are you the kind of person that would let someone copy your homework? If you are, then you are very irresponsible for that person. You are crippling them for the rest of their lives.

     

    The original masters did not have a how-to book or step-by-step instructions. They had to figure it out for themselves.


  12. Man, the Tao is about getting back to nature; letting everything unimportant slide, letting the material become material, being at one with one's self.

     

    We put so many ideas into our minds, so many locks and barriers inside ourselves and in our world. The Tao is the key to opening those locks, and the ram to breaking down those barriers.

     

    It doesn't matter what you do. You don't have to do anything you don't want to. Also, don't let yourself live in any way that is a hindrance to you or that affects you negatively. There is no selfishness. If someone wants you to do something, and it is harmful to you, no amount of pain that your decision causes that person is worth harming yourself. That pain is in that person's mind. It is not of you and is not caused by you.

     

    Those who wish you to act in such a way that is harmful to yourself are not in harmony, and thus are not one with the Tao. Loyalty and duty are not of the Tao. Loyalty, justice, expectaions arise when there is no harmony. These ideas are falsities.

     

    Look deep within yourself. You will find the truth. It may take years, but what is that? You will also find how hilarious the idea of time really is.

     

    I hope this helps you, and I hope you find the answers you seek.

     

    Namaste


  13. As I have seen happen on many a spiritual forum, someone asks a technical question about a technical aspect of practice or a specific method, and it is met with philosophical discussion and questions.

     

    If you know a method, but don't want to share, then don't say anything.

     

    If you don't know a method, and don't think it should be pursued, then don't say anything.

     

    If you want to start a discussion about the pursuit of enlightenment/powers/sex/money/compassion/popularity/whatever, then start a different thread.

     

    I don't mean to respond to/pick on you specifically, but the type of sentiment you raised has happened thousands of times in the past, and probably much more before that, and it honestly contributes absolutely nothing to the discussion. It's like a teen asking how to have safe sex, and then a bunch of people start throwing out their personal opinions towards sex, and pretty much talking about every single point EXCEPT the important one.

     

     

    IMHO, a technical thread should stick to technical aspects of the techniques being taught. Any other debate should, I think, be done in a different thread.

     

    And on that note, I sent this link to Ralis via PM, partly because I've tried to cut down how much time I spent on forums, and partly because I wanted to steer clear of threads which I know aren't going to produce much but..... this is something I came across a while ago, dunno if it was on this forum, whether I got it from someone, or what:

     

    http://www.clairvision.org/books/ate/free-download-awakening-the-third-eye.html

     

    (it's available for download by the creators of the book, at least that's my understanding, so no need to fear copyright infringement!)

     

     

    The method seems to start out focusing on breathing, and trying to get a very tactile awareness of that breath, being able to feel it physically in the body, then being able to have that same feeling with energy/awareness, then centering that feeling/energy/awareness in the area of the third eye.

     

    I did answer his question. Chakras coexist. If one is closed, the others cannot be opened.


  14. The first chakra is establishing yourself-having all the basic needs.

     

    The second chakra is creativity and productivity-you need the basics in order to do this.

     

    The third chakra is being fulfilled-being able to live comfortable, as you want. This is not to be confused with the "American dream" or any other ideas of excessive luxury.

     

    You simply seem to be a man living at the first chakra, who is looking to advance to the third chakra level. I'm not saying you don't have comfort and that you aren't prosperous, but hopefully this metaphorical explanation of the chakra levels will give you comfort in knowing that it is natural to not want to stay in what I am supposing you consider a "stagnant" phase in your life.


  15. Hmm, I've been looking at the forums here for a while now. I've checked a lot of the "How do I start?" posts, and most people say that Taoism is the pursuit of wisdom. Maybe not most, but a lot.

     

    Here's some verses from the Tao de Ching that made me think:

     

    When the Way is forgotten

    Duty and justice appear;

    Then knowledge and wisdom appear

    Along with hypocrisy

     

    and

     

    If we could abolish knowledge and wisdom

    Then people would profit a hundred fold;

     

    These verses, number 18 and 19, are longer, but these are the parts that caught my attention.


  16. Thank you, Scotty!

     

    I would like to note, now that you mention it, that the above site does detail mixed doshas. To what degree, I do not know, and I am sure a book on Ayurvedic diets will be much more thourough than an online site, but I want to point out that the site does cover mixed doshas.

     

    Namaste


  17. Hey guys,

     

    I don't know if this has been covered already, but I felt like I'd share a little of what I'm interested in and hopefully get to know something about ya.

     

    This is a link to an Ayurvedic website that sells Ayurvedic medicine. My dad sells it in his store, and it has always fascinated me.

     

    Anyways, here's the link. Sure, the test and result all tie in to flaggin their merchandise, but you can ignore that and simply appreciate the wealth of knowledge at hand!

     

    Namaste

     

    http://www.banyanbotanicals.com/vata-dosha.asp


  18. Ha, sorry, Mr. WallaMike. I am not a Yogi, in that I don't spend my life on yoga, as many great practitioners do. I called myself that to simplify things. The username is the meaning of my name. I also practice tai chi, and a little of everything. There isn't much to choose from around where I live, save Tae Kwon Do and Karate, so I have to do a lot of the practices on my own.

     

    Before you fret about this and say that it is a really bad idea, know that I have heard it all before (if you weren't going to say this, I apologize, I don't want my forum topic to be filled with negativity). I firmly believe that everyone can adapt their own style of training, to whatever suits him/her. Hopefully I'll get to know you better, and learn from your past experiences with teaching yoga!