Colonel Goji

In Daniel Reid's book The Tao of Sex, Health, and Longevity there is a section on birth control. I am waiting for a copy of the book right now and have not read that part, and I also believe Mantek Chia may have some books that describe birth control. However, I have a concern with these methods as a 100% effective method of preventing pregnancy. I understand that 'precum' (not sure of the scientific term haha) does not contain sperm unless an ejaculation took place and the urethra was not cleared out before engaging in sex again. But I am aware that sometimes a drop or several drops of semen 'leaks' out when I am engaged in vigorous sexual activity. So now I'm wondering how one would know if they are being totally safe? I had karezza sex (non-ejaculatory sex) with my last gf and never wore a condom, and never ejaculated with her. But I'm wondering if that was even a good idea after realizing that drops of semen may leak out during very intense sex. Or is it just prostatic juices? Even using karezza as a method of birth control still seems like both partners would need to be ready and willing to have a child should a pregnancy happen in the unlikely chance there was enough sperm in what leaked out? Anyone have any knowledge on this or can recommend a book?

Thanks, I thought videos couldn't show in threads like this, but they can!

I use to be fascinated with psychedelics as a teenager. Which eventually led me to discovering the musical act known as Shpongle. Their music was so groovy when I first started listening to them like 10 years ago. But after having abandoned my interest in psychedelics and having become more aware of things in general, I can now see the energy and twisted powers certain musicians have, as if they are acting on behalf of The Dark Side as I like to call it, one with the eyes to see will notice something is not quite the same with certain musicians, take for instance The Grateful Dead. Talk about that Dark Side stuff. Well it turns out Raja Ram & Simon Posford may not be human after all. I'm thinking interdimensional demons that have taken human form who like to warp minds. I don't listen to these types of music anymore, it's way more powerful and deep than a naive listener can even imagine...

I don't mean to be so dreary. I wish you all peace, happiness, and long life. May Kuan Yin watch over you all. Namo Guan Shi Yin Pu Sa

I'm the great Leviathan, insatiable colossus Titanic engulfer of lives, I reward you, absorb you I'm the monstrous mouth that hungers for your awe Immense construction of lies. I own you, disown you I am life. I'm death. You empower me I'm a mammoth king evoked, conjured by your dreams Summoned by your fears. You need me, you feed me I'm the imposing giant. Infallible dictator My rules apply to all. You'll heed me, bleed for me I am life. I'm death. I decide your fate You empower me. You'd even kill for me Guzzling down your dreams - the tears of unheard pleas I drink, Imbibe with such delight the fear that floods your temporal shell Raging red rivers and streams - the kingdom of my shadow Where dread of man in endless night revives my every cell To those who doubt - your wounds will never heal To those who question my creation - I'm not real I am pain. I am grief. I'm the things you fear I'm the lie whispered into your ear I'm the great Leviathan. I'm dominance and greed You imagined me, so I was conceived I am life. I'm death. You belong to me Call me what I am. I am colossus (Jk, I'm not colossus, colossus is birth and death, the very cycle I'm trying to escape ASAP! As I would encourage all weary travellers to try and do quickly!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DctQTDm-HdU

I'm not a fan of the sax, but she makes me appreciate it, oh so much.

Omg, thanks so much for introducing me to Fuzzbox! Love it! This is what I'm listening to, trying to dissect its' meaning while reading the lyrics, Reaching for the inner bright, the very essence-sun of my dreaming bliss Guided by a fear blinded outside all shades of the perfect black The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie Me - the paragon of fear, an immobile skein of tangled nerves exposed Hastily clawing my way into the darkest of my inner scenes of torture I stay my breath to escape this slavery I stay my breath to re-awake and face it encore The struggle to free myself of restraints, becomes my very shackles It's my dark little secret that I listen to this kind of music. Lol, my friends and loved ones have no idea I have a taste for such things.

Air as in inhalants like nitrous, food as in overeating, and water as in liquid pcp. Ok, I can understand your addictions if you translate the slang.

Why not take a step outside time for a moment, and enjoy an interesting little comic, lol song is just for fun: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt_comic1.pdf Or for those of more Buddhist oriented minds, a video on consciousness by a very insightful Theravādan Ajahn: Were those passages from the Shurangama Sutra Vmarco? Going to read that someday, not quite prepared for those profound teachings yet in my cultivation, still a few attachments that need to be let go of hehe! Don't want to get confused reading such lofty teachings if one is not ready...

I would say most karate schools in the area where I'm from are not completely genuine, in fact most are mainly concerned with making a profit, teaching flashy moves and supposedly teaching self discipline and other fine qualities of character. Actually there is one decent karate school in the closest major city to here, but other than that it's all McDojos and Blackbelt Factories. If you can find a good karate school by all means get into it. I think the important thing with any martial art is that you find a genuine teacher who is most concerned with passing on the philosophy and cultivating oneself in all aspects of being a person, not just physical stuff, and is not just out for a profit. Might I recommend the book Beyond the Known, http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Known-Ultimate-Martial-Classics/dp/0804834652?

I don't mean to be judgemental, but if for some reason I needed healing (I am a blessed to have a wonderful Master to look out for me thankfully!) I would not let this man put his hands near me: Edit: Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and after reading through his website, I stand by my 'judgement', lol.

Pai Canyon would be a cool one, but I doubt I'll ever go to Thailand. Just stumbled across an article the other day, I guess it may be the narrowest trail in the world. Actually if the girl on the right was the tour guide, I think I would have to go to Thailand to hike it!

Are you interested in Buddhism? Taoism? Meditation? To become conscious I would start with some kind of meditation. Finding a Teacher or Master is also an option. I'm afraid I don't have the answers you seek.

While walking, smile. Focus the the thoughts on the breath.

"There is much difference between awareness and witnessing. Witnessing is still an act; you are doing it, the ego is there. So the phenomenon of witnessing is divided between the subject and the object. Witnessing is a relationship between subject and object. Awareness is absolutely devoid of any subjectivity or objectivity. There is no one who is witnessing in awareness; there is no one who is being witnessed. Awareness is a total act, integrated; the subject and the object are not related in it; they are dissolved. So awareness doesn’t mean that anyone is aware, nor does it mean that anything is being attended to. Awareness is total – total subjectivity and total objectivity as a single phenomenon – while in witnessing a duality exists between subject and object. Awareness is non-doing; witnessing implies a doer. But through witnessing awareness is possible, because witnessing means that it is a conscious act; it is an act, but conscious. You can do something and be unconscious – our ordinary activity is unconscious activity – but if you become conscious in it, it becomes witnessing. So from ordinary unconscious activity to awareness there is a gap that can be filled by witnessing. Witnessing is a technique, a method toward awareness. It is not awareness, but, as compared to ordinary activity, unconscious activity, it is a higher step. Something has changed: activity has become conscious; unconsciousness has been replaced by consciousness. But something more still has to be changed. That is, the activity has to be replaced by inactivity. That will be the second step. It is difficult to jump from ordinary, unconscious action into awareness. It is possible but arduous, so a step in between is helpful. If one begins by witnessing conscious activity, then the jump becomes easier – the jump into awareness without any conscious object, without any conscious subject, without any conscious activity at all. This doesn’t mean that awareness isn’t consciousness; it is pure consciousness, but no one is conscious about it. There is still a difference between consciousness and awareness. Consciousness is a quality of your mind, but it is not your total mind. Your mind can be both conscious and unconscious, but when you transcend your mind, there is no unconsciousness and no corresponding consciousness. There is awareness. Awareness means that the total mind has become aware. Now the old mind is not there, but there is the quality of being conscious. Awareness has become the totality; the mind itself is now part of the awareness. We cannot say that the mind is aware; we can only meaningfully say that the mind is conscious. Awareness means transcendence of the mind, so it is not the mind that is aware. It is only through transcendence of the mind, through going beyond mind, that awareness becomes possible. Consciousness is a quality of the mind, awareness is the transcendence; it is going beyond the mind. Mind, as such, is the medium of duality, so consciousness can never transcend duality. It is always conscious of something, and there is always someone who is conscious. So consciousness is part and parcel of the mind, and mind, as such, is the source of all duality, of all divisions, whether they are between subject and object, activity or inactivity, consciousness or unconsciousness. Every type of duality is mental. Awareness is nondual, so awareness means the state of no mind. Then what is the relationship between consciousness and witnessing? Witnessing is a state, and consciousness is a means toward witnessing. If you begin to be conscious, you achieve witnessing. If you begin to be conscious of your acts, conscious of your day-to-day happenings, conscious of everything that surrounds you, then you begin to witness. Witnessing comes as a consequence of consciousness. You cannot practice witnessing; you can only practice consciousness. Witnessing comes as a consequence, as a shadow, as a result, as a by-product. The more you become conscious, the more you go into witnessing, the more you come to be a witness. So consciousness is a method to achieve witnessing. And the second step is that witnessing will become a method to achieve awareness. So these are the three steps: consciousness, witnessing, awareness. But where we exist is the lowest rank: that is, in unconscious activity. Unconscious activity is the state of our minds. Through consciousness you can achieve witnessing, and through witnessing you can achieve awareness, and through awareness you can achieve “no achievement.” Through awareness you can achieve all that is already achieved. After awareness there is nothing; awareness is the end. Awareness is the end of spiritual progress; unawareness is the beginning. Unawareness means a state of material existence. So unawareness and unconsciousness are not both the same. Unawareness means matter. Matter is not unconscious; it is unaware. Animal existence is an unconscious existence; human existence is a mind phenomenon – ninety-nine percent unconscious and one percent conscious. This one percent consciousness means you are one percent conscious of your ninety-nine percent unconsciousness. But if you become conscious of your own consciousness, then the one percent will go on increasing, and the ninety-nine percent unconsciousness will go on decreasing. If you become one hundred percent conscious, you become a witness, a sakshi. If you become a sakshi, you have come to the jumping point from where the jump into awareness becomes possible. In awareness you lose the witness and only witnessing remains: you lose the doer, you lose the subjectivity, you lose the egocentric consciousness. Then consciousness remains, without the ego. The circumference remains without the center. This circumference without the center is awareness. Consciousness without any center, without any source, without any motivation, without any source from which it comes – a “no source” consciousness – is awareness. So you move from the unaware existence that is matter, prakriti, towards awareness. You may call it the divine, the godly, or whatever you choose to call it. Between matter and the divine, the difference is always of consciousness." -Osho

Thank you. I now look at this entire matter quite differently. The way I view sex, love, and intimacy has been changing drastically. Not so much a casual thing for me anymore. Quite serious actually. 'Brahmacharya' (a celibate lifestyle adopted to enable one to attain the ultimate reality) if you will, maybe on my horizon...

she is beautiful. i'm pretty sure i would marry her too. but u saw her first...

Would a monk who was sexy feel blessed or cursed? Would their physical beauty not be a potential cause for attachment to the stinking skin bag that we refer to as our bodies? A false combination of the five elements combined in such an alluring way that one would be at risk of being ensared in an endless cycle of births and deaths on the burning wheel we call samsara? I myself am still very much attached to appearances. An attachment to physical beauty is one of the hardest attachments to let go, at least for me personally. But I try to see the inner beauty of people I encounter in my daily life, trying not to judge a book by its' cover so to speak. 'When I say you’re Beautiful I’m not just speaking in the idiom of mirrors I’m speaking of your unseen precious core shaped by fire and ice and centuries of mountain streams I’m speaking of the ever-present seasons of your being the scented buds of spring that draw the bees the petals that shower radiance your fruitfulness your graceful yield to winter silence The beauty that I greet in you is like a candle flame in currents of dim air or like a falcon rising on a thermal or it is the steadfastness of dawn rising to delight our sleeping world I’m speaking of what’s seen with inner eyes of what will slip the handcuffs of our best poetic words I’m speaking both the language of the mirrors and the language of the heart to say You are a Beauty.' Poem by Rashid, ‘Beyond the Veil of Appearances’

I'm sure I am missing something or have a wrong perception on this, and if someone reading this sees my fault please address it. From my own limited perspective on this matter however I am concerned that me and my partner would need to be willing to conceive a child should even 1 sperm flow out of me during intercourse and somehow make it to the egg. Obviously I am a beginner in this matter... Please let me know if this is in the wrong topic, I feel so naive. But this is an issue I need to look into and figure out.

Thanks for these threads. They introduced me to The Secret of the Golden Flower and Thunder in the Sky. I feel grateful this morning. And with that, may we all loosen the knots of desire we are tied up in daily, "If a desire arises within you, Tantra doesn’t say to fight it. That is futile. No one can fight a desire. It is foolish also, because whenever you start fighting with something within you, you are fighting with yourself, you will become schizophrenic, your personality will be split. And all these so-called religions have helped humanity to by and by become schizophrenic. Everybody is split, everybody is divided and fighting with himself because so-called religions have told you, “This is bad. Don’t do this.” If the desire comes, what to do? You go on fighting with the desire. Tantra says don’t fight the desire. But that doesn’t mean that you become a victim of it. That doesn’t mean that you indulge in it. Tantra gives you a very subtle technique. When desire arises, be alert just at the beginning with your entirety. Look at it with your entirety. Become the look. Don’t leave the looker behind. Bring your total consciousness to this arising desire. This is a very subtle method, but wonderful. Miraculous are its effects. With the entire being the look is so fiery that the seed is burned, with no struggle, with no conflict, with no antagonism. Just a deep look with the entire being and the arriving desire disappears completely. And when a desire disappears without a fight, it leaves you so powerful, with such immense energy, with such tremendous awareness, you cannot imagine it."

beautiful.