Is Celibacy Good For Meditation?

[Jani]

Does it make meditation more effective, and if so, why?

Have any of you tried combining these two while monitoring the changes in your meditation experience? What did you find out?

 

 

[Prabhaker]

1 hour ago, Jani said:

Does it make meditation more effective, and if so, why?

Meditation brings a kind of celibacy, but not vice versa. A celibacy without meditation is nothing but sexual repression. And your mind will become more and more sexual, so whenever you sit to meditate your mind will become full of fantasies, sexual fantasies.

celibacy cannot be taught. Only meditation can be taught. celibacy is the result. As meditation ripens, celibacy comes to fruit by itself. All effort is to be put into meditation. One who puts his effort directly into celibacy will sit suppressing sex in the name of celibacy. And celibacy is not happening  –  it is only superficial  –  within the being the worms of desire are crawling.

Celibacy should be brought very slowly. All that brings you again and again to sexuality has to be dropped slowly, in steps. And once you start enjoying the energy that becomes available, when you are not obsessed with sex, just that pure energy becomes a dance in you — that is called enriching. Now, your energy is not wasted. 

Sex is the absence of meditation. When you live meditatively, sex is gone.

[Deep]

@Prabhaker Have you researched Kundalini yoga? Do you believe that is enlightenment? I'm just curious because for that they say one has to be celibate. 

[Prabhaker]

2 minutes ago, Deep said:

they say one has to be celibate

This kind of forced celibacy is very difficult, it needs a different kind of lifestyle, food and many other things. I can't advise it to a person living normal life in the society.

[ajasatya]

@Prabhaker nailed it. his first response says everything.

[Jani]

4 hours ago, Prabhaker said:

Meditation brings a kind of celibacy, but not vice versa. A celibacy without meditation is nothing but sexual repression. And your mind will become more and more sexual, so whenever you sit to meditate your mind will become full of fantasies, sexual fantasies.

celibacy cannot be taught. Only meditation can be taught. celibacy is the result. As meditation ripens, celibacy comes to fruit by itself. All effort is to be put into meditation. One who puts his effort directly into celibacy will sit suppressing sex in the name of celibacy. And celibacy is not happening  –  it is only superficial  –  within the being the worms of desire are crawling.

Celibacy should be brought very slowly. All that brings you again and again to sexuality has to be dropped slowly, in steps. And once you start enjoying the energy that becomes available, when you are not obsessed with sex, just that pure energy becomes a dance in you — that is called enriching. Now, your energy is not wasted. 

Sex is the absence of meditation. When you live meditatively, sex is gone.

Thanks for the informative response.