A Fellow Lighter

Significance is always a choice.

Will is Power

You're already connected. The question is how to level this in a way that is undistorted and balanced.

In order for you to get in touch with humanity, you'd first need to get in touch with your own humanity. Once you know your self you can know the world. The key is exactly your own beingness.

The Gospel of John In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood it. ... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father's one and only Son. I now know my purpose here, my work is that of vibration.

You've really oversimplified this. If you had really given yourself the time to study the energy centres, you would have been enabled to learn the answers to your sexual queries (and more) by yourself. But anyway.. yes, it's true that semen retention raises your energy, particularly your psychic and emotional energy. However, the danger lies in the unbalancing of the energy centres/chakras, learn that their function is always in relation to each other - it's a cooperation. If one particular chakra is functioning at an extremely high level than the others, it will be forced into severe reduction by the process of equilibrium thus resulting in what your friend @Osaid calls “flatline”. There must be balance. If you can get yourself to properly learn of the energy centres, just what they are and why they are there would be sufficient, you could most certainly apply that knowledge in the management of yourself. There won't be any more confusion in conducting yourself in a way that is healthy, it will all simply boil down to the matter of self discipline, which is another aspect of life on its own, of course.

Where there is nothing.. will is law. Where there is will there is way.

Both the cause and the effect is meaning that you have discerned, in this case.

I've been confusing myself for the delicate tool. Who I am, or what I am, is definitely not the body nor is it mind nor spirit. What I am is not the person inhabiting the world - what I am is the world. I am the world, the light, the creation creating itself, that very duality that is also nondual. And I've been confusing myself for the instrument of creation, the mechanism, the intelligence that is my supposed body. But the whole world is my body, everything is my body, everybody is my body. So what does this mean for me now? Well, I've always said that knowledge is only ever the knowledge of Knowledge, that is to say that the knowledge of anything is the knowledge of Knowledge. So now that I have identified myself with the world, this means that the knowledge of the world is the knowledge of one's self. No matter the condition, no matter the vibration, I Am forever. What does it mean on a personal level? Well I am expecting some shift in behaviour as I've witnessed in my past awakenings. But one thing this does mean is that no more looking for fulfilment in the future or the past, my meal is now the present moment. It has also occurred to me that all my desires are but one desire, and that is the desire of more and more awareness. Literally all of them: nutritional; experimental; sensual; etc. On a world-maker level, this awakening means that everything I do I can only do out of love, meaning I should expect nothing in return. This ties back to living off the present moment, I am to seek fulfilment only from myself since I am the only being as the world itself. The idea of me dissolving with the fabric of the universe also comes to mind, but I don't want to have to force it, I feel as though it should happen naturally as I raise my vibration through the behaviour change. The instrument is most certainly delicate. I can now see how the shape of the world, or should I say myself, is linked to the organism. It's the intelligence of the world: the eyes; the ears; the limbs; and everything else - it's all intelligence. And the intelligence evolves as the soul of the world (me) grows in awareness.

“Meaning” is much broader than that. Think about it in terms of there being a means to some end. So yeah.. “intention” or will is essential. Meaning is the work. If something is meaningful that means it's working. Me typing this text for the sake of conveying a message is a means to an end. And it will prove meaningful if you get the message; prove somewhat meaningless if you don't get what I'm saying here. However, since everything is energy, total meaninglessness can only exist at the relative level, from the individual's POV. The Creator within can see exactly how everything is a means to an end, that is.. how all is meaningful. When we supposedly ‘give things meaning' what we're actually doing is attempting to discern purpose. In this, we can be right or wrong about the meaning of something.

The present moment.

@Someone here yeah, this is totally not a problem you should particularly find yourself worried about. I mean the answer is really simple but executing it may not prove easy if you lack self-discipline. Just stop masturbating, and your penis will resensitise all naturally on its own. I don't really want to have to explain the science behind it, but trust, your body knows what's what and can recover its tissue cells like magic. But basically, at this point, masturbating for you would be like trying to lift weights when you've just exhausted your the tissue cells of your muscles. Just let them recover, and you'll be back on track. A full week should do it. P.S. nothing to be embarrassed about, we're all human here, friend.

Thanks for sharing ???

Light

@Reciprocality no, it's not the possibility of awareness that I'm questioning. It's precisely its presence that I'm questioning. To say it is present because it is necessary is to subject it, and I think we can agree that awareness, literally the pre-sent, transcends all that mental faculty. Well I'm having trouble with your logic too, friend. At this point it's coming off rather circular as an argument. I mean.. something that exists must be necessary, simply because it exists? What you're literally saying is this: Existence = Necessity. Of course this will leave room for no miracle because then there's nothing to question other than the implications of the logic. If Existence = Mystery then there is substance, rather than empty belief. What is so wrong if we encounter a duality with this lens? We are simply questioning the aspects of reality as they present themselves. No point in shying away from this for the sake of nonduality.

Who was it again that said understanding is only half the answer? Anyway, I also think that the answer to such questions is simply more awareness. They are questions that demand awareness rather than reply/respond.

The awareness of red is a matter of identity? Quite extraordinary in deed, my friend. But I am open to where you're going with this. Personally, if you do not know what I know, then I beg the question - how can I tell that you're a conscious organism? Or maybe just existential. If not known then what? Nothing. So why even question it, lest the question is who knows this now? But that is a question of self and falls swiftly out of philosophy and straight into mysticism. No worries. I can see why it's necessary in making your point. Which I would've agreed to should I have overlooked my point above. @Reciprocality you do realise that affirmation can only go as far as there is method, right? I'm just pointing that out, before we haven't found ourselves in circles. No worries, friend. They're helpful. Thank you, friend. I'm really trying my best here, and yes a good laugh is very much due ? in retrospect.

I appreciate your efforts in trying to elucidate the ego to me, I sincerely do. But I really cannot become aware of it in my direct experience, and so I fear that any discussion around/about would prove to shallow for my liking. If you must mention it in making a crucial point, then can we speak about it in its defined or described form, rather than the word itself? I honestly don't resonate with the idea of ego, and I find discussing to be seriously draining on my part. I will definitely check him out hearing about his work from you.

Is the light of awareness also an impossibility and thus not miraculous? Because one might try as hard as s/he wants but s/he will never find reason for awareness. Existence may be necessary but why should awareness? What difference does it make to reality that there is knowledge or not, lest you admit that it is precisely because it is realised that it is Reality..?

??? And here I was thinking that epistemology was the most popular or favoured field in philosophy. Yes, it is rather stupid isn't it? But maybe it wouldn't be so if it had incorporated 'the paradox' to somehow mean or become a pointer to a particular dimension to reality that the cognitive mind is yet to evolve onto. It's too early to tell.

@Razard86 I honestly tried to make this a simple discussion as possible. But it would seem that in my attempt, I ended up overlooking a lot of what @Reciprocality was bringing to the table. So now the goal has changed from simply exchanging ideas, to learning from him the philosophical dimensions that would better this attempt in communing with him, and try to see the world from his lens. Imagination is a very deep thing to discuss. There is no surprise if, in discussing it, it seems like word play. But I get, most of this stuff could come across as too confusing to the minds that simply wants direct answers.

So I hear and agree with everything you've stated thus far, except for this post right above ?. The problem is I'm not fully acquainted with the concept of ego, so I try to avoid it. I agree with you here, strip away all identities and what remains is nonduality itself. Only question is can there be a intuition of such a modality if I may call it that? I can tell that you use the term imagination rather conventionally. I'm only wondering if it can ever be possible for you to try to broaden this in a sort of all-encompassing was. Otherwise you leave no choice but to agree with you that the absence of imagination does include the possibility of a something remaining. I mean what if imagination cannot be absent? What if there was something like a metaphysical (or multidimensional) imagination were reality suddenly has levels to its realness? This may very well sound ridiculous but only until we enter the realm of dreams. This, by the way, was the approach I was willing to take in proving to you that all is imagination without actually “killing you".

@Someone here quite lovely, isn't it ☺️ It's not luck, though. It's the full blown power of love.

@Kalki Avatar Jesus was no doubt an enlightened teacher. Before I awoke to the soul or essence of existence, in no way did his teachings resonate with me. In fact, I honestly thought he was a jerk. Telling people to poke out their left eye just because they couldn't help their natural instincts and look at their neighbour's wife lustfully. Quite the extremist, I imagined him to be, and just so full of it. But now I've actually warmed up to him. Now his teachings come across more radical and deeper than I could have guessed. I now realise why he was here, and why he needed to be here. He's given us hope. Now, I'm actually looking forward to meeting the guy in the next world. I'm sure he has a lot to say to us. If he didn't, I'd be shocked.

Why reality is the way it is?