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What’s the point of doing semen retention for a whole year? Like, what exactly are you trying to achieve here? If you have a girlfriend with whom you have sex, you obviously want to enjoy the experience and reach ejaculation sometimes, rather than always practising tantric sex or full-body orgasms without actually ejaculating. If you want to have kids, that’s another thing. But what’s the point of retaining your semen for years on end? Sexual health and wellbeing are important too. prolonged abstinence can lead to sexual frustration or obsessive sexual thoughts, making it harder to concentrate. So, what exactly are you hoping to achieve through long-term semen retention?

Yes .“Awareness of itself “ is what’s being investigated. And I say we should define , or know what exactly is awareness of our self and environment. awareness can be defined as perception.Where there is a subject and object and a process of perception going on . Or it can be defined as being itself without a duality between perceived and perceiver. Nondual teaching sides with the second definition. Materialism sides with the first one .

When discussing this topic , I don’t understand how could the body-mind problem or understanding the nature of consciousness existentially be put on hold . It’s essential to this question. It’s the whole key to this question.

“Brahma-Charya” literally translates as “the road towards Brahma (God). It also means celibacy or sexual abstinence as a life style choice because Ancient Hindu monks believed there is a spiritual benefit in retaining your semen . And that is true in a sense . But If you are not determined to be celibate for the rest of your life then don’t do it . It’s completely unrealistic . If you don’t have sex with an actual person for a long time , then there is no escaping either self-pleasure or nocturnal emissions.

To answer this question,You first have to know exactly what is a subjective experience.

A woman is literally created to be worshipped by a man .

So what’s your situation now? How serious it is ? Are you going to get chemotherapy? Etc

Where did I say any of that ? I distinctively said it’s emotionally difficult. Religion targets the emotional part of your brain, not just the rational. You get brainwashed with religious beliefs as soon as you start to have some basic intelligence to understand, very early in childhood while your brain is still fresh like a sponge and very prone to absorb brainwashing. because as you’ve suggested, you can show a religious person proofs of the Big Bang and how there is no scientific evidence for the existence of any gods or supernatural entities,and how Darwinian Evolution debunked the biblical story of creationism etc ..yet there are still billions of Christians and Muslims in the world today who are diehard believers. And a huge chunk of them are actually aware of the problems with their religion because this is the age of easy and available information.Yet they can’t let it go just like that . It has become part of their identity.

My nephew is 6 years old . He asked us where is god and they told him in the sky and he believed it . Do children at this age even have critical thinking? They can barely say a sentence.

It’s not because they are stupid. It’s because it’s emotionally difficult to exit a religion after believing it for decades.

It’s really simple . Religion is a form of spirituality, but outdated because most religions are thousands of years old . And today they are brainwashed into people’s minds since childhood and they just accept them because they don’t know better .

You have to put an end to this victim mentality and self pity if you wish for your life to change. Because otherwise you will never change.

Is the question “what’s the meaning of life ?” Or “ what are your top values “ ?

1- Peace . 2-Love. 3- Health . 4- Serenity. 5- Well being .

How did you know my kink ?

Take the gold pill and 2 cups of sugar and you will be just fine .

Thank you for sharing this information.

No, they aren’t needed . You study psychology. It’s well known that “depression “ as a clinical diagnosis has to do with with imbalances of things like Serotonin and dopamine in the brain .

Depression could be physical due to chemical imbalances in the brain , which is the most common form. or it can be caused by tragedies in one’s life , like losing a loved one. The second common one . or it can be seasonal. Like depression during winter . Which is the least common one. idk what is meant by depression “metaphysically “. But it’s an interesting concept to contemplate. I would guess something like existential crisis?

There is an old man whom I see almost daily, walking past me. I don’t know exactly how old he is, but he looks to be at least in his 70s. He is a stooped elderly man, with an ice-white beard and ice-white hair. He uses a stick to walk, and it takes him almost 15 minutes just to cross a street vertically. Watching him makes me deeply uncomfortable, because it reminds me of something I have always feared: old age. I have a very big fear of growing old. I don’t want to reach a point in my life where even crossing a street becomes a difficult task. The thought of gradually losing my independence, of having to move through the world with increasing difficulty, is genuinely frightening to me. I don’t want my own body to become an obstacle between me and the simplest things in life. Old people are also more prone to chronic illnesses, fatigue, insomnia, and all sorts of things that can make everyday life exhausting. My mother once told me that old age is very difficult, and she almost teared up while describing it. That moment stayed with me. There is something heartbreaking about it . I know that I tend to be a generally negative person and most of my expressions on this journal are negative . I use this journal for completely unrelated and free expression.My mind naturally gravitates towards the darker aspects of existence, and I have a habit of contemplating the unpleasant possibilities that other people might prefer to ignore. Perhaps this is why thoughts about ageing and physical deterioration affect me so deeply. I struggle to look at the human condition without noticing its vulnerabilities. This also connects to what I have been experiencing lately with mental fatigue. For some reason, I dislike the idea of being incarnated in a physical form at all. A physical body feels like a dense and gross substance, something heavy that I must inhabit and maintain for as long as I exist in this world. I wish I could be a breeze of cool air, an ethereal entity, or an angel made of pure light. Something weightless, free, and unburdened by the limitations of biological existence. Something that could simply exist without constantly having to worry about its own physical condition. When I look at the human body, I cannot help noticing how vulnerable and easily damaged its various parts are. The organs can be injured, the eyeballs can be pulled out, and the skull is essentially a rigid container protecting a mushy brain inside. The joints can break, and every bone seems capable of being dismantled under the right circumstances. Even the body’s most essential structures, the very things that allow us to perceive the world and experience consciousness, are susceptible to damage. morever the body must go through pain and must go through death . So I’m not sure if this is negative in and of itself or i am being overly negative about it.

I’m here. Why would I talk to you if I believed you were merely an inert character in my mind or dream? Leo, this makes no sense, and it’s not funny anymore. This solipsism bullshit has gone far enough. I suggest he cross-reference his insights on psychedelics with those of other enlightened people and double- and triple-check his position on this point, particularly regarding the idea that equating oneself with God is identical to the philosophy of solipsism. at this point , this is dangerous misleading from Leo’s part .

The commitment should be to teach the truth , not falsehood.

I’m sad that our teacher is teaching us delusion and falsehood.

I was meditating by watching my thoughts arise and fade while remaining as a witness to them which is the simplest meditation technique to me . It simply shows the gap between awareness and the mind or the thinking process. Thoughts which arise in my consciousness are not coming from my own authoring ..they arise on their own and also the mind chatter itself is very clearly and sharply distinct from awareness in the sense that I can observe the mind blabbering from a distance without me needing to engage with it. I have made that line very clear. A lot of times I reach a moment of complete silence of thoughts where there aren’t any thoughts at all present in my awareness but I still feel bad or restless in the back of my mind. I still feel tensed . My facial expression is disturbed and my body is tight instead of loose . I concluded it is because of years of conditioning and years of suffering and memories and the subconscious mind . But if all of what I mentioned now are not accessible directly in my awareness when I reach the zero thoughts phase in meditation..then where are they present ? The only answer that comes up to me is they are in the unconscious mind . But how can something exist and be unconscious? Either a thing is conscious or it doesn’t exist. What am I not getting or getting wrong ?

@Lyubov thank you .