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Hi, Welcome!!! I can't answer your questions (although I think Damo Mitchell is sound basically - maybe you need to try to get some in person teaching and not from books???) ... but on the Buddhist meditation you are concentrating wrong I think ... there's head concentration which makes you tense and heart concentration which doesn't - so if you were wanting to pursue this I would find an image of a great sage or guru or someone who means a lot to you - and use that for the focus - place them in front of you or use an actual photo or image and just return to it when you feel you have drifted off. The twitching and so on is not a bad sign actually - but you have some blockages which you need to find yourself a way through - meditation is sold as a relaxation technique - but its not really - very often you have to get worse to get better. Hope this makes sense (probably doesn't ). Best wishes anyway, A.

I don't know why but the mirror version of your post made a lot of sense to me

This kind of insight also comes with the bhumi levels of bodhisattvas in (some forms of ) Buddhism. I suspect that in terms of ming mingling between lovers - there might be a chicken and egg aspect to this - where you could say that those two came together because of karmic connection/debt - but in terms of cause and effect there might be an inner/outer interaction. Say you are attracted to someone because of karmic history - you hook up and have sex - the physical interaction then reinforces or ripens the latent connections and your life's direction is altered in some way (?) Just thinking out loud on this One wonders then what the precise effect in these terms would be of indiscriminate casual sex with multiple partners - presumbaly a host of weak-link karmic influences. With porn ... you could argue there is no partner - or that there are multiple non-physical subtle interactions going on - resulting in ... god knows what.

Any more information on this ming entanglement????

wot! someone stole your magazines?

We are not amused.

If we collect together our individual perspectives of the collective into a collective collective this could be both your's, Steve's and everyone else's collective collective collective perspective, about which both individual and collective valid statements could be made.

You could get together with yourselves and have a vote.

Or yours.

Sorry to hear about your marriage ... and your job as well ... sounds like a very bad time. I'm sure you'll pull through ... given time. A.

I concur with this advice.

Hi, Lots of people come on here with this kind of problem - so you are not alone. It's not a simple issue it's a complex one - in the sense that it's not just like storing water in a barrel and releasing it (or not). There's all sorts of feelings and emotional states which feed back into your body/mind - so I think it can be quite confusing. It's good to have a clear understanding of how the subtle body works - so you need to study that in some depth. For meditation on LDT I would just rest your mind there and breath count - don't think about storing energy and so on - your body does that naturally and it will kick in if you let it happen - don't react to any sensation/experiences that occur just carry on for set time (maybe 20 mins or so). For ejaculation - set your self some targets - longer periods of retention each time building to 100 days - but don't get depressed if it goes wrong just start again. Have you been taught the 8 brocades or are you doing it from a book? (Just my thoughts of course ).

Hugs everyone

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Our lives are fucked, The Board is cucked, Now Sean has gone away. Don't save your Jing, Just have a fling, And masturbate all day. Or light a joint, 'Cos what's the point, In following the Way? It's all gone wrong, Forget qi gong, Stay up late, Don't meditate, Lie, Steal, Kill, Drink, Shag your neighbour at her sink, Let's face facts, No going back, It's all gone wrong, Now Sean has gone ... And That Is It.

Sean oh Sean - Trump made you pissed, Cos you are an anarchist, Now Bernie's screwed, By Biden's plots, We all will end up Trots, Or dead in jails, Like Jeffrey Epstein, Cos being left Will be a crime. Come back, come back. And and change our fate, or leave us all to the white male patriarchic corporate capitalist state.

Oh Sean, Now you've gone, This place is a bit More shit.