AboutJonathan Gaines Expertise T`ai Chi and meditation. I am a 30+ year student and teacher of T`ai Chi Ch`uan. My teacher was the late Grand Master Cheng Man-ching with whom I studied for seven years. I am knowledgeable about the principals, practices and the applications of Tai Chi as well as the many benefits and some of the pit falls of practice. I am also knowledgeable about Chi Kung and have developed my own `simple and easy` method. The benefits of T`ai chi Ch`uan and Chi Kung include health and wellness as well as self defense based on principles of yielding rather than resisting. Fascinating! As a life long spiritual seeker I am also knowledgeable about meditation and contemplation. My principle practice is Dzog Chen which I am learning from Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. The benefits of Dzog Chen are the potential to discover your own mind stream and master it. The point is to enter into the non dualistic state of `no thought` and then learn to be aware of this state while entering into thought. Self liberation from samara and for the sake of all sentient beings is the purpose of Dzog Chen practice.
Question i am 17 years old.i want to transform my sexual energy ..what is the process?whether to adopt yogic masturbation or not?
Answer GREETINGS.
SO FORTUNATE ARE YOU TO BE YOUNG AND INTERESTED IN YOUR SPIRITUAL PRACTICE.
My advice is, Skip the masturbation, it confuses your energy field and warps the mind.
Relax your sexual impulses along with your whole sense of awareness by keeping
your mind and prana (Chi) gathered in your lower abdomen.
If and when you find your personal Guru who you trust without any doubt then rely on their teaching and guidance. Sexual energy is so powerful it can either ruin your life or make it quite worthwhile.
Living more for others, especially your girl friend or wife will pay vast dividend in happiness and peace of mind, while living for yourself as in Self Cherishing leads to anxiety, anger, all the afflictive emotions that are the 'Cause' of endless incarnations.
In short, be a good and useful human being. As your Buddha Mind awakes to the illusions normally called life, you see everything as the dream it really is. Then you can find the essence of your perfect spiritual awareness and attain your self realized Buddha Nature.
