Sunya

lol the human imagination never ceases to amaze me

i remember mantra saying clockwise brings the energy down while counter brings it up, the practice seems to be focused on downward energy

anyone ever feel tingling on the left side of the head? above the ear? i felt this pretty strongly today.

same here, my legs stopped shaking as well. they tremble sometimes, but its not how it was when i first began. i do feel some movements inside my torso, but had had no spontaneous movements

cam you know you'll be back. i've seen you say that atleast 5 times

maybe this explains why i can't sit in half lotus for longer than 40 minutes

ah. ok

i don't like this whole 'my practice is holier than yours' attitude theres a buddhist practice where they go out in the winter with wet cloth and dry the cloth on their naked backs with their body heat. its actually been documented scientifically doesn't mean that its specifically kunlun. all practices have similarities since theres only one human body

my friend, i understand how you want to overcome these desires and rise up to a higher plateau, but i assure you it's much easier to just experience experience experience until the very core of your being knows, feels, and understands what sex is. there is nothing bad or 'dirty' about sex, it is beautiful. but i think to make the choice to say no you should experience it and live and see what it's all about. i had a desire to smoke pot, and i did. i loved it, it opened my mind up and actually i'm pretty sure i got into spirituality because of it, but then there came a point where i realized i gotta let go since i'm not getting anything more out if it, i knew this through experience not through listening to those 'this is your brain on drugs' commercials. you gotta know what it is first before you let go of it and believe me, it is true about the path of excess. i jerked off so much that it doesn't even feel good anymore. sure my ego still desires it because the ego is limitless in its desires, but my intellect knows knows knows that i shouldn't do it. and if you keep doing it, the intellect gains more and more power and eventually you can overcome those desires. but you only gain that power through experience, not through theorizing

i agree with you, i guess coming from my perspective it's different because i really can look at naked women and be okay with it. i've jacked off to so much porn that i'm immune. it's kind of like watching so many violent movies that seeing death doesn't bother you. i don't even find orgasms pleasurable anymore from jerkin. after i'm done i always regret it. its all lust, and after the lust is gone i'm like shit, that sucked. WAY TO GO MIND! haha but yeah, the path of excess leads to wisdom. some dude named blake said it. maybe you should try just devoting a week to jerking off to pron all day, see what it does to you. i promise eventually you will be immune to it

wtf? what were they doing?

don't call me an idiot and then not offer any proof of your claims, show me i'm wrong.

i think what Sheepish was trying to say earlier, and i completely agree with him.. is if you can't handle looking at naked women then you shouldn't be celibate in the first place. you gotta get over that need for pleasure and get your mind out of the lower chakras, than celibacy will be a peice of cake

the point of meditation is to separate your Self from your ego. you've been nurturing that ego for a long long time, so its hard to snap out of it. if you believe in reincarnation, that's even more egoic impressions to get through being immortal has nothing to do with shape shifting into your house. its realizing that you are the house. i don't see any benefit in becoming an immortal in the neo-taoist sense since you still haven't overcome the fallacy of duality

i take a more nondualistic approach. this whole idea of creating a soul and becoming an immortal is still in this false belief that you are an individual, which i believe is wrong. you are everything, you just gotta realize it. read the quotes in my sig

keep it quiet! i don't want all the publicity

that's nuts

because he chooses to stay and take the role.

how can an immortal live on the physical plane? no one is above the physical laws of decay i posted this in another thread but will post it here as well since its more relevant to the topic it may surprise you that it [kundalini] isn't pure fire as you all say it is. "There are two internal forces or breaths, Prana and Apana, which govern the inhale and the exhale respectively. Prana rises, spreads and blossoms. Apana goes down, contracts and roots." prana is hot, apana is cold. there is a visual here http://www.occult-advances.org/kund.shtml

it may surprise you that it isn't pure fire as you all say it is. "There are two internal forces or breaths, Prana and Apana, which govern the inhale and the exhale respectively. Prana rises, spreads and blossoms. Apana goes down, contracts and roots." prana is hot, apana is cold. there is a visual here http://www.occult-advances.org/kund.shtml

like i said before, i don't consider mental masturbation over logic, numbers, and facts to be beneficial at all. but whatever works for you.

astral traveling is not new agey, whether you call it astral realms or 'immortal realms' its still the same. just the whole concept of striving for immortality doesn't sound taoist to me at all, atleast what i know about it from the classical perspective

lol you just love talking don't you you should get a blog, brother

looks like a crown opening out of body experience. what's the point of this? there are easier ways to astral travel than spending 13 years as a celibate

haha what i do like about kunlun is that it isn't neo-taoist, those ideas of creating a spiritual embryo and growing it inside you in this 'quest for immortality', i like how you say merging with the tao and that max speaks of us already being enlightened.