ganjaboy
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Does anyone else feel that cannabis (marijuana) used in the correct way (emphasis on correct ) it allows you to channel and connect more with your Chi / Qi life force? Smokeable cannabis is from the female part of the herb and I think in men it rejuvanates Qi which women and children generally have more of, according to what I have read.
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Does anyone simply walk for exercise and to meditate or reflect while doing so? I am 21 but started moving more when I noticed myself starting to age, youth fading and my body deteriorating. I now try to walk 10,000 steps a day and while doing so I reflect on life. I am a runner as well, but don't do it as much (only about 18 miles a week) because it is more "yang" to me and seems to degenerate the body in excess. The rest of my health practices and body / weight management are via yoga, healthy diet and fasting. But I like walking
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Here's my take on it. Most things are not bad nor good unless they're of absolute immorality, i think cannabis is one of them, like sex, alcohol, food, whatever. Moreover it depends on where you are in life and why you are using it. I've had experiences with cannabis in the past where there was a lot of bad energy in my life and it seemed to amplify it even more and get me caught in a bad rut, i.e. laziness, self indulgence, negativity, and anger. Now that I'm with someone and headed in a better direction spiritually and with life on the whole, I use it not only more sparingly but I feel the vibes are better. In day to day life it seems to unlock creativity and emotions that are hidden, positive ones if I am meditating properly, and in my relationship / in the bedroom it helps to be more calm and gentle and sensual, and to approach my partner without expectation or agitation no matter what the circumstance is. Since I've grown more accustomed to this it comes out of habit now too and I don't need to smoke regularly. Therefore, I think it's in how / why you use it. Just my two cents
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I've done some research but I've started to understand how this energy works. It has came to me mostly thru qigong, sexual kung fu and sexual yoga practices, the latter of which I've done with my current partner. I also should mention that I practice retention and cultivation and I have my own observations thru this, namely, when you don't emit semen often all of the energies seem reflected back into your body and everything gets more intense. I ejaculate once in awhile, i'm still young and my partner sometimes enjoys it, but when I'm older I plan to limit it even more; I've discussed this with her and she understands how we will ultimately move toward Karezza. Basically i believe that puberty / time naturally make a male more Yang and a woman more Yin, but because balance is quintessential in all things it's important to keep in touch with the other side. For some reason when I think of yang I think "upper" and yin I think "lower." Losing jing often seems to make the body more yang, and vice versa seems to help balance and dissipate. That's another thing, yin seems to disperse and yang to gather. Yin would be going for a walk or run, yang would be lifting weights. My experience has also been that one extreme causes a tendency toward the other in myself, I seem to have an internal sense when I am out of balance for my own health which is really what this is all about. Shooting in the dark a bit here, but any thoughts? Thanks
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Actually I see too much yang as being less kinetic and more static. Yin to me feels more freeing and light, yang is more solid and dense. My goal is a healthy balance of both and somehow I feel it's linked to cultivation. I feel rather out of balance at present and am examining why. Overindulgence sexually definitely harmed me A chain is only as strong as its weakest link Another yin / yang metaphor, for me at least - A strong fortress is only as good as the treasures within
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I've found it's best to befriend your demons. If you try to destroy them they multiply and return in greater magnitude because the energy you put out to keep them away only gives them strength. Everyone has them. I think the key is integration
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I think the following go a long ways: Eat to sustain energy and to support health and energy levels for activity. Be in touch with your own body, everyone is different so pay attention to how you respond to different foods (more yin vs. yang foods). I tend to need a lighter diet for my body type (I find a lot of excess earth foods too 'heavy') and don't touch meat or dairy the vast majority of the time. Does that mean it is necessary to say you are a 'vegan' or a 'vegetarian' or a 'flexivegan' or 'flexivegetarian' or any other title that is out there? No. Does it mean to forsake alcohol or any even slightly more extravagant food? No. As with so many things moderation goes a long ways. I'm convinced exercise as well is crucial not only for your health and strength of your body but also to avoid depression and other mental disorders, which many people are on pills on but could be cured with exercise. 'Eat half, walk double, laugh triple'
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The initial post sounds a lot like the age-old "why do bad things happen to good people?" question. Here's my take on it. I've had periods in life where it seemed like everyone was getting what I wasn't or what I thought would make me happy. As an example when I was younger I saw young people having sex all the time and I felt like I was missing out, I was a very late starter with women and didn't even start gettting into any of that until around 21-22. At 22 I lost my virginity in casual sex, with a girl who ended up being a friend with benefits for a couple months. It was far less detrimental or damaging than it could have been because we were clear on what we wanted and did our best to harbor kindness, sensitivity and sensuality with each other. I then went on to have a couple more casual encounters which were not bad but slightly less wholesome. I think whether you think you have "karma" from something is irrelevant, the fact is it's there. In these cases I not only received karma, it made it clear to me that what I thought I was missing out on, the physical intimacy, alone is an illusion of happiness. You may see others seeming like they have it all but you rarely see the other side, the anger and unhappiness and loss when you lose that thing you are attached to. You don't get something for nothing. I say that a lot because it is so true. I'm luckily to be in a relationship now that has a very spiritual side as well as physical and the karma between us I hope is going to help us both have higher rebirths in coming lifetimes. The difference between humans and animals is the capacity to be more enlightened. So if you have an enlightened relationship it will serve more to that end, and if not, likewise. Humility between partners goes a long, long way. Unlike sex, money, or material possessions, that effort to foster positivity energy is something that, unlike these other things, is eternal.
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I've decided to be a lot more moderate about it, not only does smoking too often reduce your natural balance of cannabinoids in the brain but you aren't as sensitive to it and the insight gets duller the more you smoke. In my experience at least. I cannot smoke every day or I get nothing done. I also had a really bad experience on pot that made me think about being more careful, it was very trippy, not sure it was just pot, maybe very potent or laced weed, but it magnified a lot of bad energy in my life at the present point in life, I felt a lot of bad karma and bad relationships with people swirling around in my brain. This was about a year ago when I was still knee-deep in other bad life choices, like watching porn and disregarding kindness and friendliness to other people
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Hello all!! As is evident from the above post i am 22 and in the process of putting my life together after basically a past 8 years of relative ignorance. First and foremost, as should be evident from the above title I am a user of that magical herb cannabis, for meditation / relaxation purposes as well as to assist me in treating depression. I do not believe that or any drug is the answer however, more accurately they provide a means to ask the right questions - IMO. Like a lot of young men I struggled with masturbation, lust, and porn usage, in some ways inevitable during the raging hormonal hell of adolescence but it was with time that I gained wisdom enough to realize how these things were damaging me and I am proud to say as of today I am a year clean of both. I've done a lot of reading on the concepts of the three treasures, Jing, Qi and Shen and have come to grasp an intuitive working knowledge of what they mean and how the manifest in your spiritual consciousness. I am however still a virgin and have yet to harm a woman with my lust. A wise man once advised me to make virginity "my spiritual fortress", to lose it with or to my wife. I am not sure what path I will take but am definitely aware that the common trend of promiscuity and self-indulgence is incredibly detrimental. For me it will take a special girl, and definitely not just a lover but also a cultivation partner and companion who understands yin and yang energy dynamic and how to heal with the relationship rather than the opposite. I want to get into yoga or some physical practice because like some young men I have suffered and still do from both anorexic tendencies and body dysmorphia. It's my belief, perhaps far fetched that these physical demons are karma for physical objectification of female goddesses that I did in my own mind. As a raging Taurus my challenge shall be in overcoming the base bestial instincts for higher purpose and enlightenment. Anyways, hello!! Glad to be here
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One thing I noticed after fasting (I stopped at 95 lbs at 5'6", don't worry I put on weight healthily again ) was that your mind becomes a lot purer as well as your intentions. When you're not eating a lot obviously your libido disappears or at least reduces. You also get calmer. There's a saying that in order to get to heaven one has to be like a child, I think I am starting to understand what that means. For me, the goal is to gain a new respect for both women and sexuality, valuing it more than I did. I'm just glad that I haven't yet given that sacred part of me to another person yet, it would have been the nail in the coffin.
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Another note on physical demons. As a guy who has struggled with looking young and the pain that has caused with regard to lack of sexual attention from women, my plan is to change the outside of my body to resemble a hardened man over time yet use Secret Smile meditation technique to conceal my relative innocence and virginity, a secret inside. In this way, I can lay down at night and rest my head in peace, even though I may not recognize who I am on the outside the boy is still in there. I will be celibate for possibly 10 years but will at the end of it have a more slight physique once again and more mild lifestyle practice, around the same time I desire relationship with a woman. It's about the journey and the plan is to grow. There is much more in this boy
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Thank you to all. Someone wise once told me that everyone has to go over "fool's hill" and I have come to believe this. I believe in the effects of karmic resonance and I noticed that while struggling with porn I drew negative and wicked people to me, was infinitely petty and felt plagued by demons. I had let my body and health go as well and respected neither from a spiritual standpoint. When I woke up and quit finally, I felt I had no choice but to atone and stopped buying things, fasted until basically emaciated (I believe fasting burns karma) and started prayer and meditation. Now I try to make health and moderation my goal. I struggle still with the physical demons but I believe that is also karma. I also have quit herb until I feel more yang resonance and material stability since cannabis is very yin and can easily cause imbalance.
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Thanks. As someone else said, I think the truth is that if you let yourself even get to the arousal state, not to mention "helping it out", you're already kind of screwed. Not completely, but i think any guy can tell you the cycle is easier to avoid in the first place than to stop once you're already in it. And if you go through with it, it's just another expense on your whole system, because the seed / essence that was lost has to be replenished. I think the damaging effects are more subtle than that though, you lose that mental agility and "fire" that seems common in young men but dwindles (usually) with time. That's absolutely not what has to happen though, and usually it's due to waste of jing.
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Is that a good thing? I really do believe the celibacy helps channel chi, which women naturally have more of. Reason being, you're containing an energy that is manifested inward rather than expended outward. Instead of your dick being the thing doing the acting it's your mind and your spirit lol, if that makes sense
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I believe celibacy actually harnesses an energy that is feminine in a way. When you think about it, women are the more magnetic sex, in terms of being able to draw the opposite gender to her. But I think a chaste man develops his own form of this energy, and women absolutely can sense it because all of his actions and mannerisms are affected involuntarily. It allows you as a man to remain confident in your masculine energy at a level that surpasses anything else, but you have to be disciplined. It's very easy to fall into autoerotic behaviors and even subtle things like those can leak the energy, like a car battery jumpstarting another vehicle. The normal path is for young men, who naturally possess both more yin and chi energy, to become more yang over time as they become men. That's fine but I believe there is a twilight zone where a man can decide what kind of man he wishes to be, whether it's a man who proves his might with his muscle or ability to dominate others, or a man who still fights with his mind and his spirit when all else has faded. America has 170 lb gym bodybuilder men who are finding their definition of masculinity that way. Go to the Congo and you will find 100 lb malnourished men still providing for their families, and the definition of man changes. I know good men who still masturbate and watch porn and I don't judge them for it. But I am seeking something very deep and I feel that this path will allow me to find it.
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Double post but just another thought: i dunno if anyone here buys astrology but i think the cultivation path is different for everyone, as the linked post above by OldChi mentions, and knowing your specific type might help a lot. example: I am a Taurus. When you think of a bull you think of a very virile animal, a lot of times the adjective "fertile" is used, so in a way it makes sense to cultivate essence with this sign because you become more radiant. The key for Taurus is to overcome the primal bull nature and evolve to a higher state. I think two of Taurus' largest vices are food and sex. For instance, some Taurus people started out early in life in less evolved states and then progressed.Malcolm X for instance was a pimp when a young man and then turned his life around for the good. A lot of Taurus people also over indulge in food and drink and become overweight. With the bull you also think a masculine animal, but ironically Taurus is a female sign. Female signs are receptive and magnetic, and draw their strength from internal reserves, which is the path I am feeling is calling me deep down. For some people taking a very aggressive, direct approach just burns them out too fast, and I feel that is the case for me. Better to practice meditation and abstinence, and take a powerful, persistent and more subtle approach.
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That is very useful. As a single guy myself I have found that there is a strong impetus to increase your yang in order to gain more attraction from women. The truth is that women are, with some exceptions, usually more attracted to men who are more yang. But i have found the probably with trying to increase your yang, too quickly or for the wrong reasons, leaves you imbalanced; I've noticed I just feel empty and a lot of subtle feelings i like to call "inner child" have faded. Also if you are simply trying to gain attraction of that type - you have to remember it's at a base level...formed in desire and ending in reproduction, thus loss of your essence. Death, really. That i guess, is the reason i'm discriminating with regard to relationships yet, because I would like to find a woman who understands what i'm really trying to find. A lover AND a partner. Easier said than done, but again, balance. My hope is that eventually the cultivation energy will supersede a lot of the other barriers, and I get the feeling that will become easier with age. Gandhi weighed 100 lbs and was a very slight unassuming man physically. But he led his followers in protest. People who become stuck at the physical barrier are lacking heart-fire. I make music, i think it's my calling, and there are a lot of advanced ways to channel your energies into it.
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The celibacy and mind training has gotten easier for me in my early 20s, I think that as a very young man or teen it's borderline impossible because the energy is just too intense yet. It's not that i'm less virile or sexual, I still intend on having a sexual relationship some day, but the thoughts and impulses are not helping me at present. I've learned now to be able to see a beautiful women, appreciate it but let the thoughts go, and the same when I feel myself becoming aroused. Fasting does wonders, I am one of the few who believes it can heal the body (as long as you eat right and use your body as well). Once you realize that in many cases eating can actually sap you of energy it changes everything. I'm doing all this now so that i can actually make something of my 20s and not be ruled by base impulses like so many other young men are. The young men who squander it all very early are the ones who end up homeless, jobless, drug addicts, or still doing shitty work later in life. It is my hope that it will result in a more positive lifestyle in my 30s and a very fulfilling relationship with the right woman.
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I've read a lot of Jewish mysticism and am now of the opinion that certain acts of sexual immorality can actually cause demons to come into being. I think masturbation and porn is relatively harmless in a boy's childhood or early teens, but once his mind has the understand and reasoning to know better, I believe it becomes far more detrimental. Basically I think that when you cum to an image of a woman.. even if she's not there, you've still had sex with her, the girl in the youtube video, the porn video, on craigslist, whatever. Again, when a guy is young, i think all it does is get rid of your sex drive for awhile, which for a young horny guy isn't always a bad thing. But when you get older i think it starts to really suck your Qi. I can already start to feel it, and I don't like that feeling. Especially because for a lot of guys the hookup culture, porn and jacking off is accompanied by bad health habits on the whole...things that really speak to a lack of self respect. How many guys do you know who let themselves go in their late teens or early 20s...like shitty diet, drinking too much, etc. Thing is, the woman you fapped to got your Qi, even on a cosmic level. You might not know it immediately, but you've lost something temporarily that will take effort and time to replace, energy that could have been used creatively, or to bring a new life into the world, or it could have been during actual lovemaking (not just 'fucking') where you're exchanging Qi energy with your lady friend and ideally you don't even come. I believe this is the reason women usually live longer than men, why men seem to get more hollow, angry and withdrawn with age, and why women generally seem to have more energy and be happier on the whole. I also believe it's at the root of a lot of violence in the world and the misunderstandings and lack of respect between the genders. This has been discussed elsewhere on the board but I think overload of porn, masturbation, and male orgasm / ejaculation changes your body too, i don't want to say for the worse but it definitely is a less gentle lifestyle. Your body gets harder, more heated, more Yang and also you will need more Yang in your diet to account for what you've lost. It's the basic reason why boys' bodies change into men's. But my personal definition of a man is very non-physical. I'm taking a good year or so to really take some care of my own health which hasn't been great lately due to poor diet and a lot of work. Yoga, mediation, walking, and changing up what you eat goes a long way. The key word, for me at least, is gentle. It takes time to see change in the body and it also takes time to repair damage done. The secret is doing so before it's too late.
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Meditation or practice for healthy testosterone / yang resonance (celibate)
ganjaboy posted a topic in General Discussion
I am a nearly 22 year old male and I have chosen at this time of life to be celibate and conserve jing while trying to restore lost chi from childhood. Since I don't have sex, masturbate or watch porn I am afraid my testosterone is low for a male although this may not be rational, I am not sure. But I at least want to train my mind to meditate on sexual desire and transmute it instead of pursuit of temporary pleasure into confidence and personal strength. The longest I have retained is 168 days and I'd like to go indefinitely from this point onward but it means I am going to have to find healthy outlet for fulfillment and accomplishment in life. That's the whole idea though lol. Any thoughts or suggestions? -
Meditation or practice for healthy testosterone / yang resonance (celibate)
ganjaboy replied to ganjaboy's topic in General Discussion
I think women can sense when you retain or cultivate lol. Whenever i do i feel more relaxed, am calmer and nicer and easier to get along with, and i think young ladies take note lol. It creates a magnetism because they as the opposite gender can sense the cultivated energy and are subconsciously attracted to it because they want to receive your essence....it sounds like there's a war of energies going on, which in a way there is, but that's where spiritual sex would come in i think because it is energy flow rather than destruction Anyways it's fun. I've been getting flirted with more lately lol -
Meditation or practice for healthy testosterone / yang resonance (celibate)
ganjaboy replied to ganjaboy's topic in General Discussion
That's exactly the reason i'm attracted to the practice....and also for the fact that my life is not in the best state it could be at present. I'm 22 and earning my food and rent by washing dishes for minimum wage...not exactly the life i had dreamed for. One might say "you're still young" (and believe me.....they do...all the time ), but why not make the future now ? Sort of like the Shia laBeouf thing lol....JUST DO IT!!!!!! And if what it takes to gain my confidence back and strengthen my soul is to restrain and transmute sexuality, which has been of my most powerful forces second to creativity of other types, then so be it. I won't be resigned to living an unfulfilled, meaningless life. -
Meditation or practice for healthy testosterone / yang resonance (celibate)
ganjaboy replied to ganjaboy's topic in General Discussion
What a lot of guys don't realize is that by being a player with women, for instance, they're really just robbing their own bank account with no possibility of return. And porn and jacking off isn't any better because there isn't even any possibility of giving to someone else. I'm coming to these realizations because i'm at the point where i'm juuuust starting to subtly age and am becoming more aware of how losing jing effects you. I want to get on a spiritual grind now and still feel like a teenage boy at 60 lol. Which i think is totally possible to do while still having a sexual relationship....just one that's a component of a very deep relationship with a great degree of emotional and spiritual connection. People need to understand each other more.