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Even Max's masters live in the mountains. Are you calling Max's masters, Mantak Chia, Nan Chin Hai, The Wudang and Emei mountain taoist masters beginners? Because they believe that it is only possible to be enlightened by isolating themselves from the pollution of society? So you think you are higher than those masters now? You should show a lot more respect to people who have attained a higher level than you have.

I have already presented everyone with the highest Taoist teachings and have proved that they are no different from the highest Buddhist teachings. If anyone refuse to see the truth of my words, and wanna walk a mediocre path, hey it is your choice, not mine. There is no way you can live as a married person indulging in your senses by partaking in the luxuries of the city and still expect to attain Enlightenment. As previous taoist and buddhist masters have shown, one can only attain Enlightenment by cutting off your senses and living in seclusion away from the masses. Me, I am walking the highest path and no one is gonna stop me.

Mantak Chia described why it is important to seal the 5 senses. Our senses are like antennas which receive waves of vibration,sound and light that come to us. If that wave makes sense, ourbrains will start to think. Thinking consumes more energy than anyother bodily activity. As humans we can not stop thinking, lookingand listing nor stop fantasizing. This sensory-linked brain functionin reaction to the external world is known as the monkey mind Mantak also described the importance of sealing the 5 senses in dark room retreats. All spiritual traditions have used Darkness Techniques in the pursuitof enlightenment. In Europe, the dark room often appeared in under-ground form as a network of tunnels, in Egypt as the Pyramids, in Rome as the catacombs, and by the Essenes, near the Dead Sea in Israel, as caves. In the Taoist tradition caves have been used through-out the ages for higher level practices. In the Tao, the cave, the Immortal Mountain, the Wu San, represents the Perfect Inner Alchemy Chamber. Meditating and fasting in the cave is the final journey of spiritual work. The caves are the Earth Mother and its energy lines. Like the hollow bones, caves contain the earliest information of life stored inside the Earth. Caves contain the vital essence of the Earth Power. The Tao says: ‘When you go into the dark and this becomes total, the Darkness soon turns into light.’ In the Darkness, our mind and soul begin to wander freely in the vast realms of psychic and spiritual experience. When you enter this primordial state or force you are reunited with the true self and divinity within. You literally ‘conduct’ the universal energy. You may see into the past and future, understand the true meaning of existence,and begin to understand the order of things. You return to the womb,the cocoon of our material structure and Nature’s original Darkness. Complete darkness profoundly changes the sensory sensibilities of the body/brain. We are deprived of all visual reference. Sounds begin to fall away as we lose contact with the external world and turn the senses inward. The effect of darkness is to shut down major cortical centers in the brain, depressing mental and cognitive functions in the higher brain centers. Emotional and feeling states are enhanced, especially the sense of smell and the finer senses of psychic perception. Dreams become more lucid, and the dream state manifests in our conscious awareness. Eventually, we awaken within ourselves the awareness of the Source, the spirit, the soul. We descend into the void, into the darkness of deep, inner space As you can see, even the Taoist masters advocate non-indulgence of the senses in order to reach the Void or Pure Consciousness. Nan Huai Chin, the buddhist/taoist master, has also repeatedly asked all to engage in various style of stillness meditation in order to connect with Pure Consciousness. So why anyone would say Taoism is higher than Buddhism or vice versa is beyond me.

http://www.daoistmagic.com/info.php?i=2131 Reclusive Training: This type of Daoist training is sometimes regarded as the higher path of the Daoist Right-Hand school of training. It requires the mystic to remove him or herself from society becoming a lone sage. After recognizing the flaws of ritualistic forms of worship and giving up the politically ingrained patterns of religious dogma, the mystic generally retreats to a cave for internal introspection. Although ritualistic forms of worship are essential for purifying the mind, any form of external oriented action can also keep the mind bound to the external world. Therefore, in the highest stages of Daoist mystical training, the individual releases all attachments to material objects (people, places and things) and spiritual powers (controlling the Elements, the Six Transportations of Shen, etc.) and strives only to attain "oneness" with the eternal Dao through self-introspection. There is fundamentally no difference between taoism and buddhism. All religions and spiritual paths are created and improved upon by countless men cutting off their mundane senses to experience the void. As shown above, it is said that the highest path of daoism involve cutting yourself off from the polluted material society and more importantly, cutting your attachments off to attain oneness with the Dao. This is virtually the same concept as Dzogchen and Mahamudra in Tibetan Buddhism. Not to mention Jhana Meditation in Theravada Buddhism. I have said before I have know numerous Taoist masters. The highest Taoist masters I know are Buddhist as well. http://www.nanhuaijin.org/ Master Nan Huai Jin (Nan Huai-Chin) is one of the most renowned and revered lay Buddhist Masters in China. A great teacher in all three traditions of spiritual cultivation in China, namely the Confucian tradition, the Buddhist tradition and the Taoist tradition, he has written more than 30 books in these subjects. I do not know Nan Huai Jin personally but as you can see, he is a master of buddhism and daoism and confucanism. So for those of you who try to malign me and put words in my mouth, this is the only point I am trying to put across. Whether it be Taoism or Buddhism or Hinduism or whatever, one still have to cut his material senses in order to reach the highest stages of cultivation and that means no sex, no good food, no fun which stimulate the senses.

You know, there is a consciousness, an intelligence to the sexual energy in our body. If you do control this intelligence of this consciousness in our sexual energy, it will end up controlling you. Ejaculation is the biggest obstacle to raising consciousness in man. This is why all the spiritual masters of every mainstream spiritual tradition out there advocates celibacy.

If one fails to retent semen, it is because his consiousness and willpower isn't strong enough to keep his semen. His mind is still too attached to the sensual pleasures of ejaculation. When one's mind is completely in control and completely oblvious and non-attached to the sensual pleasures of ejaculation, then one can retent his semen as easily as snapping a finger.

The biggest problem of ejaculation is that it lowers the consciouness in your being and prevents you from meditating successfully. This is why ALL spiritual masters of EVERY mainstream spiritual tradition advocates semen retention or even better, no sex at all.

The biggest obstacle to semen retention is not the lack of teachers. The biggest obstacle if that people who try semen retention fail to understand and overcome the metal/emotional addictions in their psyche. For eg, if you have been having regular ejaculations for the last few years, it would be very hard for you to cut off your cravings for sex. Semen retention would be even harder. One must totally cut off sex and even thoughts of sex for at least 3 months before one practice sexual retention. Also, one must partake in yin practices to balance out the rising yang energy created by semen retention. Yin practices like vissapana meditation and even eating completely yin foods and cutting out yang foods. To dissipate the excess yang energy, one should even exercise if need be. There are even yin qigong practices for a male to engage in if he is feeling too yang. It is all about balancing out the energies in your body. Diet, exercise, thoughts, all these factors contribute to the balance of energies in your body. As i said before, the most basic method of cultivating semen retention is to eat yin foods or not eat at all. Yang or cooked foods must be completely eliminated. There is more than enough information out there for one to make the appropriate strategy for semen retention if one looks hard enough. Teachers are only needed for empowerment and such.

Yes I suppose most taoist masters who stay secluded up in the mountains and most buddhist monks who stay secluded in the forest monasteries are full of fear.

The only difference between taoism and buddhism is in name. The enjoyment of things prevent the cultivation on non-dualism and non-attachment of the mind. Even the master taoist sages will retreat to caves when attempting the pinnacle of spiritual cultivation. Check out Wudang, Emei and other taoist sects in China which seclude themselves in the mountains. Why do you think is so? Why aren't most taoist masters enjoying life in the cities if it doesn't hinder anything?

As said in the vids, it is shown that a male rat, when presented with a new female rat, would rush to impregnate the female rat. But as time goes on, the male rat will gradually lose interest in the female rat and eventually stop having sex with her. But when the male rat is presented with another new female rat, his sexual interest will pique up again and he will struggle valiantly to impregnate the second female rat before losing interest in the second one again. This rat behavior works very similarly to the sexual drive in human males. We all want to impregnate many different females.

In the Vimalakīrti Nirdeśa Sūtra , Vimala was dancing with lots of hot working girls but he didn't feel the slightest bit of pleasure or aversion. It is only when you put your mind in non-dual neutral mode by engaging in neither pleasure nor aversion then can you spiritually cultivate. In these videos, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDFsLi2oBk, it is proven that the basic and most addictive needs of man and woman are food and sex. This why our world is built around the concept of materialism. Materialism is actually a way of life built upon our hunter-gatherer drives of food and procreation. This is why women would waste so much time and money splurging so much on cosmetics, clothes, jewelery, handbags and cosmetic surgery. The desire to look good is linked to the basic female hunter-gatherer drive of bearing more babies and attracting rich, powerful males to provide for her and inseminate her. This is also why men spend so much time and money on their career and of course, sexual pursuits like going clubbing, dating, spending money on women so they would have sex, etc etc. Men have this male hunter-gatherer drive to look for more resources so that they can have more opportunities to fertilize more women and create more babies.

Many posts have been written here on why the epitome of Tao is sitting at a beach side cafe, eating a cheese cake, enjoying your wine/coffee, holding the hands of a lover, ejaculating into a lover, caressing a child.. Too many deluded "taoists" have been mislead into thinking that indulging one's senses by even partaking in life's simple pleasures is the equivalent of "living life" according to the "Tao". Little do they know that when you indulge in your senses, even in something as basic as enjoying the touch of a lover or child or even feeling the caress of a wind breeze by the seaside, you are actually creating more obstructions to your spiritual cultivation!

BS. Look at Mantak Chia. How the hell did he survive with semem retention for so long? What the OP should do is to cut down the amount of food he eats until traces of physical addictions are gone from his system. Just look at the progress of great practitioners like the shaolin monks and Mantak Chia who practice their respective spiritual paths without semen ejaculation and you have to wonder why some men in the world can practice semen retention while others can't.. Genetics? LOL!

What about legumes like beans, lentils and seed? And of course, soy products? Also, are grains like rice considered to be starchy? Cos i am looking for a good source of non-animal protein.

What's wrong with taking starches, cheese and dairy? There are plenty of vegetable starches which will help one, especially athletes with their energy needs.

are you saying that these shaolin monks are different? these vegan monks look pretty bulked and more importantly, strong to me How many meat-eating bodybuilders can wrestle a cow into the ground?

Change to a raw food diet. That will turn the corner for you. Virtually. Food and sex are intrinsically linked for our hunter-gather brains. The more you eat, the more sex-drive you have. So to break the mental addictions on your body, you have to break the physical aspect of such addictions first. Cut off the energy to the demon and the demon will starve to death. Those vids will show you something much more if you look closely enough

Yes everybody has genetics. Kinda like how Bill Gates and Warren Buffet has the "rich men" genetics.

did you recover fast bcos of your genetics or bcos of your vegan diet?

raw bodybuilders don't use steroids. they are already going vegan for health and longetivity so it would be quite impossible for them to use steroids which are even more harmful to their bodies than regular, bad junkfood. it would be like taking one step forward, 2 steps back

http://www.veganfitness.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=723 from what i read during the last few hours, it seems that there is quite a few bodybuilders/atheletes who managed to switch successfully to vegan without losing weight or the ability to compete..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIcSuA2b_Wc Here is a huge list of vegan bodybuilders and atheletes. I don't believe that the list is so huge. Any fakes on the list?

How do you regain your Free shit and change your shit?

To tell you the truth, Seth, when you attain the Infinite Bliss of God, material wealth, social standing, women and other material rewards will fall upon your path. These "rewards" are actually tests from the Universe to see if you will stray from your path again and re-engage yourself in the pursuit of material things, especially when you are endowed with Siddhis. So there is no need to "look" or "search" for a family, material possessions or a job.. Just look/search for the Universe within, and all will fall into place. This I understand now.