Shepherd

After a nocturnal nutrient loss and recent lack of discipline, I meditated on how to be more diligent and or how to understand why I seek release even when it doesnt pertain to creating life. The answer I got is that most everyone around me releases their seed, I have no immediate support...in Dallas TX. I need to surround myself with people who have common goals. I do not have anyone around me that also practices retention.

Thank you for reading and replying,

Shepherd

Ever seen this site? http://www.alchemicaltaoism.com/

 

specifically http://www.precisiondocs.com/~altaoism/HLIntro.htm

 

 

 

It's Trunks site (he is a moderator here) lots of very useful links to the direction you are looking.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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First of all, thank you for responding. Your insight relieves some stress. I am hard on myself at times. My knowledge as of now started with the Gnostic point of view and now as a Yoga teacher in training. Both dont let any leeway or exception and that point of view might be adding to my frustration. As for the meditation, you have opened the door and I will seek and put into action the meditation techniques....I have been meditating only recently and cant get full lotus yet.

And by "forced" you mean intentional?

Hey Shepherd

 

First of all your 26, so don't think that if you release now and then that you have "failed" anything. As one who also practices retention its important in keeping the principles of the Tao that nothing is to be "forced" or done against nature. Sometimes our body tells us its time to release, and we should listen, for there is a reason.

 

With that being said, to answer your question. The key to transmuting the sexual fluids into jing, jing into chi, and chi into shen is time spent sitting in meditation. The more you meditate, the more this transformation takes place. First begin by simply doing lower dan tien breathing. As you breath into your dan tien, and keep your focus there, the transformation of jing to chi begins. After your dan tien is full, then begin by doing the MCO. The process of doing the MCO reverses the polarity of the jing at your perineum which is yang to yin by bringing that jing chi up to your crown which is yin. Then once you bring the chi back down again and store it in your dan tien what was very yang jing chi, is now a more yin version. Think of it like turning a magnet around and reversing the polarity which thus neutralizes the charges.

 

Now as Drew Hemphel stated in the past, if it is possible for you to do so, when you sit, sit in full lotus because that position further increases the yin/yang polarity balance, expediting the conversion of jing into chi. If this is too difficult then try half lotus. Hope that answered your question.

26 Male, Dallas TX

I have, within the last 9 months discovered benefits with semen retention. As with many aspects of my life there seems to be more than a physical explanation as to how I have gotten where I am. My seeking on how to retain has brought me to this web site many times, there are no other men around me that even appreciate retention or especially the transmutation (which I am seeking so VIGOROUSLY) that I practice. Through reading online, in book stores I have read parts of books on Taoism and retention techniques. The retention techniques work, I have tried them. But, what I am seeking is to know how to transmute that energy instead of release it or suppress it. I want to harness the energy not get rid of it. It seems as though my self control and discipline is only getting me so far. Like I am suppressing it until it fights back and I loose.

Truth is that I failed tonight, again. I cant even put my words together right. I am getting tired of failing and I really really would appreciate wisdom, knowledge, help. Thank you for your time and the knowledge you have already shared.

Shepherd

Thank you, will do.

26 Male, Dallas TX

I have, within the last 9 months discovered benefits with semen retention. As with many aspects of my life there seems to be more than a physical explanation as to how I have gotten where I am. My seeking on how to retain has brought me to this web site many times, there are no other men around me that even appreciate retention or especially the transmutation (which I am seeking so VIGOROUSLY) that I practice. Through reading online, in book stores I have read parts of books on Taoism and retention techniques. The retention techniques work, I have tried them. But, what I am seeking is to know how to transmute that energy instead of release it or suppress it. I want to harness the energy not get rid of it.

Truth is that I failed tonight, again. I cant even put my words together right. I am getting tired of failing and I really really would appreciate wisdom, knowledge, help. Thank you for your time and the knowledge you have already shared.

Shepherd