Danioover9000

You also can laugh to death and find it too. If not, it's still a good laugh.

@AtheisticNonduality Because he's a fool to think he can explain a heated topic without any backlash whatsoever.

I've done some 90+ days of abstaining from P.O.M and can say there're some big increases with energy, confidence, and focus. However, the main problem is that it is relative. I'm not a heavy addict, I sometimes do 1-2 times a day or 3-4 days or a week. For me, after a session, I felt drained and near death, so abstaining was beneficial. I can't then go and say to some other boy/man/elderly dude "Hey, stop fapping to porn! It's evil!" because I don't know their physiology, how they feel/think during or after a session, what state of health they're at like neurology/immune system/endocrine system, the psyche they have and so on. Some men are gifted with a high sex rate/sex drive that you would be amazed that they could still go on, some men still have sexual karma to burn through, some men make a living off of sex and porn, and some men are so deep in porn addiction and sex addiction that specialist care and professional help is needed more than what Nofap could offer. It's very relative to the person. The only mistake I see with Nofap community is they're going the moralization route with porn, 'us vs them' mentality, and advocating prohibition and fostering individuals to demonize against porn and using certain fetishes and kinks as easy props for leverage against porn, and a whole host of manipulation tactics that slip under the radar. For example, illegalizing and prohibiting alcohol created a boon for the illegal sales of alcohol.

@traveler Correction: You fainted, look after yourself.

@traveler No, you just fainted from from breathing too much. Look after yourself.

I've been thinking about this for a while that kept me sometimes awake at nights, that if existence is everything it also includes obviously all things like life, death, forms, tangible things, non-tangible things, and so on until I hit at non-existence. I've previously passed off non-existence as like death, so their similar, until I realized that death is included in existence, and my thoughts on it are in existence, including thoughts about non-existence. If non-existence was a thing existing separate from existence, it would seem far more dangerous and problematic than death. By definition, if existence is everything, non-existence is non-everything, including not death, not life, non-forms, non-thoughts, and so on. Like if existence came up with something beautiful like a flower, then equally non-existence would cancel it out with an equal measure of creation as existence. Let me know what you thing.

I'm confused. Can someone tell me what a dogma is? Sounds like a bad dog...

You really don't have dream recollection? I used to not remember my dreams at all years back until I kept practicing meditation, changing my diet a bit and I'm able to remember some and a few very vividly.

@traveler Ok.

To clarify, I suck at logic and am gifted with some intuition. I sometimes just follow the 'feeling' and wow, such insightful thoughts shared here. And I've slept better at night, so thanks!

It looks like he left.

Ok, but I see no disagreement here because of non-existence as a concept does exist within EXISTENCE, as a thought. I'm talking about actual non-existence. Ok, God nullified it and we're just gazing at a dud and all we'll do at best is use parts of existence to understand parts of existence like concepts to try and understand something that will never be the genuine non-existence, right? Because the real thing is way too dangerous not just for me, but for everyone and every part of creation, so we're left with concepts of it.

@Meta-Man Ok, but not the same as non-existence. Nothing and everything is within existence, yet nothing isn't like non-existence, because nothingness is within existence because you can experience it, in non-existence both the notion and actual nothingness would be canceled out, non-nothingness. As unbelievable as that sounds, it is possible that emptiness could be canceled out of existence by non-existence if it were not for the infinite intelligence of God and infinity making it powerless. Otherwise, you couldn't be able to have enlightenment occur or even think about enlightenment, because actual non-existence erases it at every level of existence possible or impossible, which means no spirituality possible at all. Imagine that! Spirituality wiped out from existence and memory. Yet here we are now, fortunate to think and do spirituality and experience life, no matter how our minds are, we still have a decent chance at them.

@Someone here I meant that we could have thoughts and concepts within existence. Maybe I thought you meant concepts can't occur in existence. If that's what you meant, you're right, if in terms of physical objects and location as a basis for existing, but thought, despite being intangible and false compared to physical stuff, is still existing within existence. Same with non-existence, as a thought. The real pickle here is non-existence. If you're willing to say that existence is synonymous with everything, God and infinity, then you must also consider that non-existence is also synonymous with non-everything, non-god, and non-infinity. As a consequence, this means that if we had actual existing non-existence, that thing would be canceling every bit of creation, almost every step of the way. That would be far more damaging than death because with death there's always leeway for new forms to emerge from in life. That's not happening with non-existence, see? Yet somehow, we can safely think about non-existence. Why's that? Well, if God is infinity and has infinite intelligence, then god had plenty of time to struggle through every step it took to make sure this wouldn't be a problem in all creation, making it a dud in the minds of living creatures. Let's have a thought experiment. A simplified version of Zeus's mythology. There's once Uranus and Gaia, only two in all of existence. Uranus, the masculine aspect of existence, keeps making love with Gaia, the feminine aspect of existence. However, because there's nothing outside of Uranus to replenish his energy, he must eat almost every child Gaia gives birth to. Understandably fed up, Gaia at some point decides to deceive him and swap out her real baby for an imaginary one, saving Zeus. Hidden away by Gaia, and through time he grew stronger to eventually overthrow Uranus and become the new ruler and father to all other gods and goddesses after Zeus. However, Zeus, seeing his wife, pregnant with his child, realizes that he himself would suffer the same fate as his father Uranus, fully eats his wife and unborn child, achieving immortality. Now, Uranus and Gaia here would be an example of a prior existence, that somehow gave birth to actual non-existence, here as Zeus. Non-existence, because of it's canceling effect, nullifies the prior existences to the point it was only non-existence, which is so radically destructive it cancels itself out and some became EXISTENCE as an absolute and realizes through infinity that if this thing ever crops up again, it would do what it once did so long ago, and through whatever infinite intelligence and power, it made non-existence a dud, such a dud that you can think about it. That's my take, yours might differ. I hope I made some sense here.

@Bulgarianspirit You are saying that, with the benefit of God, somehow through infinite intelligence, made non-existence once a dangerous atomic bomb, now a dud.

@Meta-Man Unity, life, death, real, unreal, existence, non-existence, distinctions, non-duality, awakening, collapse, and enlightenment are within EXISTENCE. Even as abstract concepts in the mind, that too occurs in existence, along with tangible things as well. Yet, ever wondered why, whenever we entertain the thought of non-existence, that non-existence doesn't just obliterate you, people around you, the world in a blink? To me, non-existence is much worse than death, because death is occurring within EXISTENCE, which is synonymous to everything, infinity, and God. Despite the various relative and degrees of death and dying, non-existence is much worse, because if you have existence as same as everything, unity, and god, what does that mean for non-existence? @Someone here Yet, you can have thoughts about abstract concepts, imaginary numbers, and experience tangible things within EXISTENCE, without getting obliterated to smithereens by non-existence.

@Nak Khid Tibetan Buddhism, the esoteric branch of it.

Update: I've forced myself to stop masturbating and rode out the symptoms. I'm feeling better, only my heart, throat, and feverish skin to go. Thank you all for posts. @Quantum Toad Thanks, I'm reminded of something important again that I've forgotten.

I just want to know from other people who've masturbated before if they experienced any of the following I've experienced after ejaculation; Phantom pains, shivering, heavy head, strange tingling around the throat, heart palpitations/irregular heartbeat, slight cramping around naval and solar plexus, fatigue, and dry itchy eyes. Let me know if it's something serious.

Oh boy...

Hello all. I hope you've done the exercises listed above and have some good experiences and made you motivated to continue visualizing. For me, I've done them and found them easy, especially exercises 1, 3, and 4. I made 1 more challenging by drawing the tree I remembered seeing a couple of years ago before the neighbor chopped it down, with pencil, and visualizing myself walking around this tree I've drawn in 3d, with the graphite texture, color and smell still on it instead of a real-life tree, inside the picture itself. With 3, I just walked around my Japanese back garden, while the radio in the garage playing 90\s songs, I replayed dreamscape songs like 'Trance', Born to be wasted', 'You can do anything', and some songs from Three Days Grace and Luna Remix within my mind. I've worked on my visualization skills for so long it seems I have nearly forgotten how hard it really is. I once really struggled to mentally listen to a song while a song from an outside source was playing, and sometimes had blurs or wonky forms of mental pictures. Let's move on to section 1 of developing your visualization: mind's eye. For some, this is also referred to as the third eye chakra or Ajna chakra. Others would say it's the occipital lobes in the brain responsible for processing visual perception. Regardless, it is my belief that without a strong mind's eye, or even the existence of the mind's eye, you would be severely limited in your ability to achieve goals in your life. Not just in general parts of your life, but also when you want to go deeper with it. Some spiritual traditions use some practices, like Yantras or complex Mandalas, that targets your ability to see an object in your mind. There are even paranormal abilities/supernatural aspects related to the mind's eye, like clairvoyance or perceiving spirits. And so much more I can't cover them all here, but I hope I've piqued your interest. If you're interested in developing a tulpa, an imaginary close companion, then a strong mind's eye is important when, if you want to, to be able to superimpose their form onto your visual perception and see it move around in reality. I'll further elaborate on this advanced form of visualization later in the next stage, developing your tulpa, once you've worked through stage 1of developing your visualizations. However, if you don't resonate, that's ok. Just stage 1 of developing visualization is still useful for life. There are lots of options to develop later with a strong mind's eye, but if you still struggle to see mental images, they're blurry or lose color or lose resolution, then it's crucial you still work on identifying each visual weakness and do isolation training on each one. Before I list some new exercises, I would recommend picking up a drawing activity and/or board game like chess or Chinese Go as a leisure hobby and supplementary training for mental images. Because of these activities, I've progressed further with mental images. I've written instructions on the original post, so here are some changes: if you can do 5-10 minutes, increase by 5 minutes for each exercise (or 1 if you're really struggling), and please feel free to add another exercise appropriate to what you're working on, in this case, it's relevant to vision. However, if you wish, go multi-sensory on some exercises, but beware that you won't progress slightly faster than another that uses deliberate practice on each element of visualization. Exercise 1: Rippling water. Begin this exercise after a meditation session is complete, and your in a meditative state. Imagine, within your eye lid's darkness, a pond. Now imagine drops of water, on at a time, impacting the pond's surface, and follow each ripple created. Then gradually increase the rate of speed, and increase the volume of drops until you can visualize rainfall and clearly see each ripple on the pond. Now gradually slow time, taking in the flow of the raindrops and ripples until all is paused in time. Now, rewind the process slowly, and gradually increase to a comfy speed, while noting every raindrop and ripple reversing. Repeat this cycle 2-3 times or more if you want. Exercise 2: Burning leaves. Begin after a meditation session. In a meditative state, begin imagining an ember. From the ember, imagine the burning rope below it, then the puddle of liquid wax, and finally the rest of the candle and candle holder. now imagine a plate with a leaf. Pick it, set it onto the ember so that it starts to burn, and place it on the plate. Observe it burning until ashes. Now rewind time, at the same speed, and watch it closely until it stops at the point you placed it on the plate. Repeat, gradually adding leaves until you need a barrel to burn the bundles of leaves and un-burn them. Exercise 3: Cooking a salad. Begin after a meditation session. Imagine a pan lined with a thin layer of oil, and already heated enough to start cooking. Now visualize an already chopped-to-pieces melon, apple, grapes, and kiwi. Notice each fruit's colors, and slid them off of the cutting board and into the frying pan. The main thing to visualize is the burning of the fruits as you stir them every now and then and the changes to their colors, how the pigments darken. This is optional, but feel free to use multiple senses, including the cackling of the oil and water, different sweet-smelling aromas, how each piece of fruit feel like, emotionally, undergoing this transformation process, maybe regretting passing judgments onto other fruits with a different sense of humor, or maybe the apple is relieved to change appearance, or what it's like for fruits to have emotions, etc. Take it until all are roasted, and, you guessed it, rewind the entire process backward and forwards. Notice how the pigments lighten up with color. If you took the multi-sensory path, notice especially how the reversal affects the emotions. Exercise 4: Orbiting orbitals. Begin after a meditation session. In a meditative state, bring to mind a colored ball of vibrating energy. Imagine it moving in a sort of circular motion around you and sometimes in front of you. Then imagine a different colored ball, sharing a similar orbiting pattern to the first ball. Increase until you have about 4 or so balls around you. Now imagine when one ball touches the other, it shares it's coloring briefly, giving birth to a smaller colored ball with both parent's colors, blended well on some spots, and some not. Keep going until you can't keep track of the balls, then reserve time to any point in the middle of these colors manifesting similar colors and freeze time. To conclude, I want to tell you that visualizing isn't always easy, regardless if you're born gifted. I've disclosed this before years ago elsewhere, but I'm not that gifted with picture-perfect mental imagery and had a small degree of mental blindness. Furthermore, a decade or so ago, I've been in a near-fatal accident that made me partially blind on each eye, further making things difficult to see. I persisted anyway, despite the limitation of the scars on my central vision, to work on my mind's eye until I can confidently say for myself that I can visually, near-perfectly see, the objects and situations in my mind with near realistic depictions, despite my eye's limitation. So, even if you feel you don't resonate with what I offer and move on, I strongly urge you to not leave behind your strong will, conviction, and persistence. And regardless of other's opinions of tulpas I've heard in real life and internet, it's still a blessing to have been affected by this in my life, and I want to share this blessing because I've felt some benefits from it that could have a similar effect on those that are open-minded, and for those that had experienced similar things I've been through, and to possibly experience a deeper sense of empathy. For people that resonate, don't stop and continue working on yourself. Have a good week, and destiny is all!

@Osaid Not only is it a one for me, but there's the feel, smell, taste, and crunchy sound of an apple pie topped with sugar shavings and cream on the side. And all of this I can do despite my partial blindness on both eyes, which my mind can remarkably construct around. Regarding thoughts, why could thoughts be emotionally charging...and tasty?

@remember It's an amazing feeling to be able to communicate with entities, not just the ones outside of yourself, or of higher or different vibrations, but also with a Tulpa. For other entities besides Tulpae, I think increasing your ability to focus longer and deeper and including methods of mind stabilization are necessary for that kind of communication. It gets better. Not only can you discuss ideas with tulpas, but also discuss alternatives and improvements to any product or service. You can have also conversations with them for half an hour or more, and there's usually a stronger connection that allows a deeper and empathetic understanding as well. I love it when one does give a surprising alternative that's very creative, regardless if it's a hit or miss.

@modmyth Thank you for your participation! Good to know I'm not the only one improving visualization skills hardcore as well. My anticipation, and hope, for honing these visualization skills is to help most people stick to their goals a bit longer and re-commit when times are tough, along with developing creative visualizations as well. At the moment a specific end- goal, like 10, 20, 30 or so years in my own life is not definable yet to me, but in context to this journal, it would be to set a foundation to allow other users a more stable and effective way of better visualization and to serve as a guide for those who had similar experiences like I had, along with the following; interaction with Tulpa(e), creating, developing and managing whatever types of relationships with them, creating hyper-realistic locations at a large scale in mind, and hyper-realistic beings you can practice effectively with on any subject manner (socializing, brain-storming, shadow-boxing, etc...). Also, for me, besides further visual improvements, I want to understand what's really going on with my unusual circumstance, to understand this interesting field that is Tulpa, and to experience what some people in this field refer to as 'wonderlands', 'switching with a Tulpa', 'merging'. Also, to really push my limits with visualization, to really see if I could get more and more realistic with my visualizations. that one day I'm in a whole other world. There's so much more, but that's so far my main motivation for now. I sometimes do get the occasional waning and flickering, not so with seeing, hearing, and feeling, but with tasting, smelling, and shifting balance. Sometimes if I'm moving too fast and there are lots of head movement or in general body-movements, I tend to fall flat to the ground, and sometimes through it. I'll also add fixing the wonkiness that happens in visualization as a source of motivation too.

@remember Your welcome, and thank you for your participation. Also, thanks for the suggestion for a self-help book. I've dabbled with writing in the past, so this might be worth considering while I'm organizing this journal.