I've been chewing on a few ideas this last year. One is that expanding awareness is making creative connections between more and more of experience, including...
Oh, I forgot to address a point of yours. Yes, it's true that energy work can have effects that we have no theory for yet. There is no need to limit our...
I like that idea Adam. In my experience, not coming makes a very big difference on my energies. People are different. I've heard that some men can ejaculate...
Hi Grant, It is Grant right? Well I am one of the once month kinda guys and can tolerate every two weeks, but prefer not to. I seem to be extremely sensitive...
Hi Adam, My name is Glenn. I spent a year or two celibate, without even masturbation, and this was combined with long meditation retreats in forests, a lot of...
Hi Dave, Yes, I'm very interested in that subject, and would love to hear your insights. I don't have access to good bookstores here in Bali, so unfortunately...
If you haven't already you may be interested in studing some of Mantak Chia's work, it sounds like it's up your alley. You might start with the book 'Healing...
Hi David, Yes, I have most of his books, in PDF and word doc format. I've only read a few of them. I think he has some good information and techniques, but...
I really should get in the habit of at least giving a once over read to my posts before hitting the send button. I meant to say "I'm mostly involved in having...
Dear Ones, "Enlightenment" is a clear channel, all chakras open spinning and vibrating with energy, de-light, and power. It can be said that THIS then is...
I come from the capable of end preference for coming 5 and 6 times a day, I orgasm whenever I wish and have done so from the time I was 12. I did go through...
Hello folks, I have a few questions about the nature of jhana which I would be very grateful to get clarified. Is jhana something one suddenly hits, or does it...
To be fully alive in the presence of OneSelf, is to be in continual orgasmic resonance. Physical sex may or may not be necessary. For me, (since I haven't...
Dearest Chris, IMHimagination, your last question is the answer. There is not fixed state in life and the experience of life. Love, Anna ... From: Christopher...
Hello Adam, yes, I would agree with you "conservation is useful in one's practice in the relatively early stages of one's development...there are not so many...
... very ... into ... the ... Another questions, which I forgot, came popping into my mind. Is there any connection with the jhanas and the prana/chi, and if...
I read with interest Jeffrey's article on what he calls "meditation- induced tinnitus." (http://greatwesternvehicle.org/clairaudience.htm) I've noticed a...
Hello Joe, I am glad to hear that you found some consolation in the work of the GWV, and I am also glad to hear that you are emersing yourself in the...
... prana/chi. Both the Buddha and Patanjali used similar terms `viriya' and `vîrya' respectively. Currently the term now is Shakti or Kundalini or prana in...
Thank you very much for your answers! "However, more typically one develops regular facility with the first stage, which is just finding pleasure in meditation...
Hi Christopher, I hope you don't mind me jumping in. ... Yes, that's all there is to first Jhana. Even if it's only mild pleasure, if it's born from the...
Dear Christopher, With each stage of jhana or samadhi there is a subtle but real feeling of Relief, each layer being more and more refined. That is why Buddha...
... Not at all. This was very clarifying. There more individual perspectives on this, the better... :-) ... second ... So can the practice be compared to a...
Jeffrey, Thanks for replying, and for your post in the GWV. It truly was a source of consolation and inspiration. When I first allowed the sound to be and...
Namaste Joe, As we all experience similar sensations, perhaps at different 'stages' based on our precocious;-) individuality, my falling into the Silence...
Hello everyone, As I will probably be doing some long mediation sits over this coming winter break and I am curious what methods others have used to keep awake...
Hi, I only know of one method now. Just enjoy the jhanas. Sam __________________________________________________________________________ What can be gained,...
