Arya

hmm, I live in India and it says here that Indian native cows are type A2 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475924/ I don't get extreme symptoms of like that of lactose intolerance when I have milk or curd, and I don't think I experience any noticeable symptoms when I have ghee, butter or cheese. So maybe if I don't release for some months, then just maybe I can digest milk properly.

Ahh, thanks for the response Rachel. So it comes down to the protein not being digested properly? What kind of symptoms did you experience when you had cow's milk before? Did your whole body, or skeletal structure feel weak and brittle, like mine did? It lasts for a day or two after I drink a glass. Although I think vitamin D also plays a part in this but haven't completely figured it out as of yet.

Hello all, I believe breathing and the breathe in general are essential to good health, and more control over the bodily functions. But most of all, I believe that it is very important for generating love and light! So, do you know how to breathe fully and/or enable myself to breathe fully? thanks

partly off-topic - but do you guys know the best way to absorb sunlight and moonlight? I just breathe sunlight through my skin and do the earlier purification ritual mentioned in this thread i.e. tagging purge, relax etc. on the exhale. What I've noticed is that my skin color is slowly turning yellowish, maybe golden? Yeah...

If anyone can confirm this - does ejaculating too much(through masturbation) cause an in ability to digest milk properly? I am just assuming this but members in my family seem to not get weaker bones and the weakness I feel after taking a single glass of milk. So does conserving, ejaculatory fluid lead to better digestive system? So I can eat whatever I want like wheat, dairy etc. and not be affected that much. Can anyone kindly help me with this assumption? Thanks

thanks for the advice bro

what sort of responsibilities? I have absolutely no responsibilities besides taking care of my parents. I might just give all my money away to charity later on and become a recluse. There are simply too many hindrances when cultivating amidst society. I think I might have killed off my attraction to human females. There is nothing for me here. I'm going to heaven. see ya

wow, spiritual progress seems pretty hard whilst doing business maybe I should stop working but then I'd have to became a recluse in the Himalayas which doesn't seem like a bad option I think charity and giving gifts and the way you give them accelerate progress extremely fast while living in the world

Thanks, I get what you all are saying. There is plenty of greenery around where I live so the air is mostly fresh. Not much pollution or cars roaming around. Purging on the exhale is a good idea. What I used to do was pin 'relaxation' on the exhale so I get nice relaxed, bodily feelings. Unfortunately, I've ejaculated quite a lot of times in the past few weeks(or months?) and it's quite hard to do normally. But I can do it if come back to a meditation posture. Otherwise I can do relaxation part in normally. Yes, body awareness. I find that cultivating body-awareness is absolutely key to succeeding in any spiritual practice. As for relaxation, I'm mildly relaxed right now. So my body is limber as well but I know there are many levels to relaxation. The part about the masters is believable because when making an effort to breathe fully, the chest expand and lifts quite a lot. Now, I've had it with emotions of the lower body and try to stay in the upper body with two methods, smiling and keeping the fingers lifted, just slightly. This bypasses all the mess of the lower emotions unless I forgot to do these due to circumstances or just plain forgetfulness. reverse breathing comes naturally if LOVE is the goal

There are plenty of ways to approach the meditation but in the end you're searching for that bliss emanating from the heart. So, take that as goal. The above methods you described didn't work for me at the start. I don't repeat a mantra or vocalize anything, in my mind either. Let's see, it's like you 'stack' beings or persons in your mind and then generate a feeling of loving-kindness towards them, but more emphasis on the kindness part. So you line them up, select them - for example some relative or maybe a friend or take a whole class of being, like human, animal, insect, ghosts, demons, gods etc. or even just spreading it out towards directions all around you. Don't visualize them! This is important. Just keep them in your awareness and then smile at them with the whole of your being. Think, how a father or mother very kindly and joyously treat their newborn and want what's good for that newborn. You can approach this from many angles. You can start by looking at yourself in the mirror and just smiling at yourself and relaxing. Don't try too hard because this takes quite a lot of willpower and a lot of conserved, uhhh...ejaculatory fluid. Yup, it's barely possible without that. Here are some benefits - http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an11/an11.016.piya.html So, I'd advise you to research all you can! See ya friend.

It's the metta meditation loving-kindness emanating from the heart center. Chicks dig it. They want your attention. You can get them to give you free stuff and gifts. Well, they'll be begging to have intercourse with you or even your presence. They'll behave irrationally and in strange ways. They'll shamelessly come near you with their womanly assets. The thing is, what I do is convert ALL lower emotional energy into love now. It's a bit hard to do if you ejaculate too often though but it takes me sometimes a few days to some weeks for making my body into love. Yes, I make my body love. It's easy, just do metta meditation throughout the day. If you've saved up alot of jing by not ejaculating then the bliss will be all the way more.

What's with the moon's energy? I had 4-5 dreams back to back and then one instance where I saw white luminescent arms spring forth instead of my normal ones, but it didn't last for long. Today is full moon day so I am fasting cause I'm kind of afraid of its effects.

Does emptiness correspond to equanimity/serenity i.e. neither pain nor pleasure, just bare perception of phenomenon? Because the Buddha never mentioned emptiness! Please confirm this.

ghee. I have it all the time.

You're supposed to relax and tranquilize the body and then pain resistance increases many-fold.. Don't put yourself through unnecessary practices.

I have realized that this is the ONLY practice one needs besides holding different postures like sitting meditation or various stable standing meditations. So it's basically melding the body with the whole breathe and I don't know the mechanics of it but breathing through the mouth or nose becomes trivial. I am sure most of you all here are quite aware and adept at this. My question is that what promotes this practice and what deters it? I have noticed what deters it - violence, intoxicants, afflictive emotions like guilt, shame, anger etc. But most of all it's mixing sex with violence & anger. This is the number one cause for me at least. Why I think this is the most important practice? Because I feel, literally, that it gives more control over various bodily functions and more awareness of them, especially the brain. You can see how mechanical the body is, when even separating spirituality from all of it but emotions are still a mystery to me. The raw energies of them are definitely something mystical. Anyways, what do you guys think? Any advice is appreciated.

I was doing this earlier also but somehow forgot. Forgetfulness is the real enemy.

Hey, no problem and thanks. Unfortunately, energy is relentlessly pooling up in the middle of chest and just below it and I can't do anything to stop it. But I've found a way to ground or root yourself effectively so I don't have to tackle all the intrusive thoughts which come out of nowhere. That is to follow what the body is doing, all day. Surprising I wasn't doing this even though I had 'body awareness' but my awareness was just scattered in general. So what I mean is, following the body and remembering the posture you are, nailed it down to four - sitting, lying, standing, walking. Then breathe into what the body is doing but make a note of it. Basically any activity - eating, tasting, typing, looking, hearing etc. etc. Then you build up your awareness from there rather than moving around with your scattered awareness. No, if you are mindful of your posture at all times then your awareness automatically builds up from there i.e. of the sense impressions in your surroundings. So this cuts off the mental chatter or any 'evil' or unwanted thoughts that may appear. Also stabilizes the body breathing to a whole new level.

I still haven't able to lucid dream effectively, so I'll make an effort to do it again. I've been wanting to do properly for years but it hasn't happened till now. What I wanted to do originally was lucid dream and astral travel at will, whenever I want. That was years ago. Meditation helps with this, I'm certainly sure of it but meditation also makes me completely aloof as I have mentioned before because it dissolves the self very effectively. So being aloof is kind of detrimental right now, you know? I need to work, have goals and do stuff but when I'm meditating, I just want to do the bare minimum and be completely secluded from everyone. Yeah, I've lucid dreamed a few times and astral projected but the problem was excessive ejaculation. That's why I didn't have the motivation to accomplish them. But as of now, I think I can do both if I put in the effort and can have fun. So that's going to be my practice. To lucid dream and then astral projection.

Yeah, you're right. The problem is that I don't need a teacher. I don't have any particular goals as of now except maybe enjoying life and be of help to others, that's all. Lots of energy getting stuck in my upper regions. I'm grounding all of it. See what happens from there. But also, after seeing female behavior as it is, my life can't be the same anymore. I think enough has happened for me to renounce sexuality in this life and it feels like a great burden has been lifted.

that was the whole purpose of undertaking spirituality

I just want to heal my heart

Hey, I'm not a monk, okay!

I know how to anchor my consciousness into emptiness, it's not that difficult. But I'm avoiding it on purpose because it dissolves the self too much.

I really really want to feel that 'coolness' in the middle of my chest again. That's why everything seems so unbearable right now. Where has it gone? I'm just waiting for it to come back and it doesn't, at all. I had a glimpse of it some days ago, only for a slight moment. Cool, very cool....open and free, expansive ...wondrous! I'll do anything to feel it again.