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Not to be a bible thumper here.. But you might find this verse enlightening..

 

"But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matthew 5:28

 

yep, better learn how to look at a woman appreciably.

i don't really like the reincarnation defense of why someone shouldn't kill themselves. it isn't provable, and it wreaks of the christian heaven-hell reward-punishment system.

 

Not really. We don't know exactly where heaven-hell is. IMHO, it's all here right on earth now.

 

Killing oneself without proper cause is a sure ticket to be reincarnated in a less favorable situation. In short, you kill yourself. Your next life will be worse.

 

The reincarnation theory is inline with reward-punishment system.

in my experience, where the eyes fall isn't as important as where the mind falls

 

Sure, whatever works for you.

 

At my level, I can't locate my mind if a naked cute girl dancing in front of my eyes.

The eye training is paramount important. Though I don't enjoy it.

 

Looking through nose ridge is a clever method. The benefit is enormous.

I highly recommend you get B.K Frantzis' book "Taoist Sexual Meditation."

 

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When it comes to masturbation, men are pretty much at a loss whenever they do it, and women, in the best case, can gain knowledge of their body as they open up through orgasm, opening and circulating through channels, and at worse case don't lose anything.

 

The "Taoist Sexual Meditaion" didn't teach you how to mastrubate correctly?

 

If so, that's a book in question.

 

Why can't a guy "gain knowledge of their body as they open up through orgasm, opening and circulating through channels" via masturbation?

According to CTM, every edible is either medicine or poison depending on the dosage, frequency of consumption, and the condition of the patience.

 

I've been struggling with my pot usage for a while Not physically, mainly morally and spiritually. My family is totally against any drug usage. I also worried about my kids. How do I teach my kids about drugs? Almost every spiritual "guru" says that you can't get enlightened if you do drugs.

 

I think weed is just another crutch on my journey. I apply my tool whichever way I feel right. I don't care too much about sentences like "nobody can't find the truth under influence of drug". Well, why can't I be the first? Buddha didn't get enlighted by following other's step.

 

Another thing I do worry is what if I become dependent on weed?

 

The other day, I couldn't get my daily morning coffee. My body reacted far worse.

 

"My miracle is that when I'm hungry, I eat, and when I am tired, I sleep." -- Bankei

 

Disclaimer: I smoke about one gram of weed ($10 Candian dollars) a week.

that was me bro

 

spooked!

 

I'm plotting my revenge.

 

First, I need to learn how to locate you guy .

Did you experience them physically or in some astral dream state???

 

I was fully awake.

 

I'd think it's nothing special if it had happened in a dream.

 

I had heard voices before. I had seen stuff through my third eye. I had my body shaking by itself before. But this time, it all happen at once. And the comfortable was very strange. It wrapped around my body so tight that my skin cling around my bones. Have you seen the vacuum food sealer? I thought I was processed in one.

Around 12 pm, after three hours practice, I went to bed. Remembering some joke, I chuckled to myself. I felt something jumped around my throat area. Then I heard laughter of a young man. The Qi felt on my neck spread to my whole body quickly. My body started shaking, very vigorous that the whole bed vibrated. My comforter got a life of its own. It clung to my whole body like a saran wrap. I saw a faint golden light face from my third eye. Then suddenly, everything stopped. I saw a bed with blue and white bed spreads and a toy bunny.

 

After it's over, I felt light and good. I could hear the the birds singing outside at midnight. What was that? I have a few guesses.

 

1. A stagnant Qi triggered a chain reaction of events.

 

2. Normal going to sleep process, I just noticed it then.

 

3. An astral friend played a prank on me.

 

Any ideas? Thanks.

On a lower level, lots of raw food people have the perspective that, it's been proven that eating cooked food triggers a white blood cell reaction, as though the body were fighting off a foreign invasion.

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If you think you're going to starve to death, you will.

 

It's just a proof that mind over matter.

 

If one belives certain things is harmful, the body will obey and produce the "evidence".

Yes. Loneliness is hard for me as well. I have to accept it as part of pakage in life. Having experienced depression, I know that I can feel loneliness amongst family and friend in a festive occassion. I also know that I'm the only key holder to my heart. It's my responsibility. I can't transfer the duty to others.

 

Anyway, I love this forum. I believe any form of connection is better than none. So many people here have helped me. As a social gethering place. This forum is better than any bar/club I've been to.

 

And this is a good training ground for people are super nicer here than usual places. If I can't make a civilized conversation here, it's unlikely I'll make any friends outside in the "real" world.

I think it's a good thing if you want to take up energy works (yoga, qigong, meditation). It indicated that your channels were easy to open.

 

If you have no interests in energy works, just ignore them. You'll be fine.

You can get deep restful sleep while awake and doing chores, cooking, cleaning, shopping, even work, all while sound asleep.

 

Sleep and wakeful activity are not at ends with one another and can be fully integrated together.

 

 

Do you see the problem here?

 

I don't see any problem. You walk your path. I walk mine.

 

Again. I don't want to turn this thread into another concept debating thread.

 

Basically I don't want to know what you think how things should be, I want to know what you DO in your real daily life.

 

What is with the yin-yang thing now...???....

 

Window dressing. So people would assume I knew what I was talking about.

I am sure for many practices and systems this is possible, and it is wonderful that you are trying to integrate your practice into your daily life.

 

However for many practices that revolve around profoundly deep states of meditation, it is not, and never will be possible to do while multitasking.

 

For instance I couldn't stay in a deep state of trance and suspended metabolic animation for 5 hours and at the same time cook dinner or go shopping or talk to someone on the phone.

 

This is not and never will be possible for people who follow such paths.

 

Sorry to animal lovers. My following story might upset you.

 

There is an old Chinese story about a butcher who can disect a cow with Tao mind.

 

 

A cook was butchering an ox for Duke Wen Hui.

The places his hand touched,

His shoulder leaned against,

His foot stepped on,

His knee pressed upon,

Came apart with a sound.

 

He moved the blade, making a noise

That never fell out of rhythm.

It harmonized with the Mulberry Woods Dance,

Like music from ancient times.

 

Duke Wen Hui exclaimed: "Ah! Excellent!

Your skill has advanced to this level?"

 

"What I follow is Tao,

The cook puts down the knife and answered:

Which is beyond all skills.

"When I started butchering,

What I saw was nothing but the whole ox.

After three years,

I no longer saw the whole ox.

 

"Nowadays, I meet it with my mind

Rather than see it with my eyes.

My sensory organs are inactive

While I direct the mind's movement.

 

"It goes according to natural laws,

Striking apart large gaps,

Moving toward large openings,

Following its natural structure.

 

"Even places where tendons attach to bones

Give no resistance,

Never mind the larger bones!

 

"A good cook goes through a knife in a year,

Because he cuts.

An average cook goes through a knife in a month,

Because he hacks.

 

"I have used this knife for nineteen years.

It has butchered thousands of oxen,

But the blade is still like it's newly sharpened.

 

"The joints have openings,

And the knife's blade has no thickness.

Apply this lack of thickness into the openings,

And the moving blade swishes through,

With room to spare!

 

"That's why after nineteen years,

The blade is still like it's newly sharpened.

 

"Nevertheless, every time I come across joints,

I see its tricky parts,

I pay attention and use caution,

My vision concentrates,

My movement slows down.

 

"I move the knife very slightly,

Whump! It has already separated.

The ox doesn't even know it's dead,

and falls to the ground like mud.

 

"I stand holding the knife,

And look all around it.

The work gives me much satisfaction.

I clean the knife and put it away."

 

Duke Wen Hui said: "Excellent!

I listen to your words,

And learn a principle of life."

Many thanks to Lin for sending me the video.

 

It's more fun to add movement with the contraction.

 

The Contraction Inhale Method The Contraction Exhale Method

 

Inhale yan intent (contraction) and yin action (pull in) yin intent (relax) and yin action (pull in)

Exhale yin intent (relax) and yan action (push out) yan intent (contraction) and yan action (push out)

 

I guess different application requires different method. It's fun to practice both.

Learn more about breathing and practice, practice and practice.

 

Can you "breath" to every point along the MCO path? Do you have tactile sense along the MCO path? Do you have muscle controls along the MCO path? They're not must. But if you can do these, it'll be easier to run MCO.

For the most part though, few of these guys are truly capable of dissolving their own self-loathing through trafficking with the parasitic denizens of the club scene aka pub sluts, hungry ghosts and manipulative primadonnas. One can skip the whole business and cultivate self-love. Also I just heard Drew point out that it's best not to incur "perv attacks" and perpetuate the addiction to ejaculation.

 

Yes. Stop the addiction to ejaculation.

 

The ejaculation is a myth. One can have orgasm without ejaculation. Sure, ejaculation has fun by itself too. But most time, I just want to experience the pleasure without the mess.

 

The hard on is a myth too. One can have orgasm without a hard on. Sure, it's a lot easy to have orgasm with a hard on. But one can train himself to have orgasm without the burden of addtion blood needed by the hard on.

 

The penis is a myth too. One can have orgasm without a penis. Ask a woman, she'll tell you how. Just a joke.

Seriously, one can have brain, organ or whole body orgasm. It's not easy, but it does exist.

 

Having said that, a hard penis looks better and more useful to others. And you can get orgasm out of it with a little effort almost every day. While, I need to jump all kind of loops to get a heart orgasm once in a year.

 

Don't blame me for not being spiritual, you guys make it too hard.

Solitude is the green house, eventually one has to be in nature of his choice.

Not really sure if this counts so much as dancing "differently". I think the basic idea is to try to "feel into" the music while also maintaining great awareness of your body and to just let your body be moved to and by the music. So it's a bit like doing spontaneous qigong movements, just that what you trying to express with your body is not the unfolding of your energy or whatever you might call that, but rather you're trying to express the music and the feeling connected to it.

 

Yes, you're right about mind set is very important.

 

Sometimes, a little trick is helpful to break out from the old pattern of thinking and acting. You mentioned about peripheral vision, I think it's a very useful tool.

 

Surely the high level people can just relax and be in the moment. But my body doesn't know how to relax and my mind doesn't know how to relax.

Manitou:

 

Darling, it just seems to me that you're putting an awful lot of blame on the kundalini activity.....

 

Haha. And I even worded it carefully so that it wouldn't hit anyone's nerve. Just accept that it's not good for some people just like the devil.

 

I think Manitou had a valid point about taking personal responsibility.

 

Then you guys jumped on the weed blaming train for him.

Weed can be some heavy stuff. It depends on the type. I hear guys have like a lucid panic attack. They get so lightheaded that things turn super real. Like crystal clear that it's scary. Usually it's such a life changing experience that when you're sober after the event, you start to feel weird and then depressed.

 

The original poster blamed all his problem on the "K". Now you guys wanted to shift the blame to weed?

 

What's the next? the devil?

Dancing is a pretty obvious one for me. I really like to go out and dance, more like dancing at the club though, not the overly formal kind of dancing. For quite some time I was a bit hesitant about going out dancing all that often, because you end up coming home late and the next day might be a bit of a drag then, yadda yadda yadda. However I find the more I do it, the more the lines between dancing and standard "cultivation" start to blur and for me personally,

 

How do you dance differently to mak it "cultivation" than regular dance?

How dare you denie me your love and leave me here waiting for you and you do not even have the dignity to tell me to my face that you have left me to rot away here.

 

Oh, I see, you're searching for God.

 

Good luck.

Who am I, I've been trying to find out who I am, some kind of unchanging joy or truth that I can hold on to, no matter what the circumstances are in my life. Where is this unchanging truth? It's not here...

 

 

The unchaning truth is that the truth is constantly changing.