The C's had this below to say about gratification of the flesh. It could be about sex, but it could be about all kinds of desires and impulses, like chocolate cake or gambling, a Netflix binge, etc.
This ties in with the usual weirdness of non-anticipation. Even anticipation of a positive future can be a trap it seems. We live in an STS reality of desire for the self. We can't really escape that just yet - or can we? I think it's a matter of using desire, or directing our dopamine circuits towards something higher. This would be one of those good ol' Taoist paradoxes, something like desiring non-desire. To have intent without anticipation.
Letting go of possessiveness of things, people, or even any sort of specific future, doing what is in front of you to do and letting the future take care of itself, while putting positive intent and faith into one's daily life... going with the flow seems to be one of the main lessons to learn in 3D for STO candidates.
I read this poem by Khalil Gibran recently and it really speaks to the heart of the matter for me. Especially in light of this thread where a lot of us are sort of being ground in the millstones like flour for the bread of God's feast table. That's kinda how it's felt for me in the past few months, too - being injured and then very immobile for a few months, then getting evicted, and recently having the worker's insurance company remove my benefits. Plus lots of excavating buried childhood abandonment trauma, learning to feel and release grief and rage. So it's been a hard time, but a good time as well.
On Love
Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love. And with a great voice he said: When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.www.poetryfoundation.org
Take care out there everyone.
Yup!I want to add here. However you guys actually saying the same.
From mine observation I had, sex may be positive, but you have to know your partner's desires and to find the way to achieve that.
Because, basically, IMHO, we are trying to fulfil our own desires first, and it is STS in origin.
If one can switch to giving pleasure to your partner and receive pleasure from giving, but not taking, it would be more STO orientation.
I find that anymore the act is becoming more and more incongruent with my beliefs. I recall in, Beelzebub’s Tales, Gurdjieff discussing how, at one point it in human history, it was considered a sacred act, reserved only for child birth. He also discussed that for some men it was a necessity as it removed "waste" from the system.An interesting digression within this thread.
I have to strongly agree!In my view, for a man, climax is intrinsically (physiologically) 'draining.
I find that anymore the act is becoming more and more incongruent with my beliefs. I recall in, Beelzebub’s Tales, Gurdjieff discussing how, at one point it in human history, it was considered a sacred act, reserved only for child birth. He also discussed that for some men it was a necessity as it removed "waste" from the system.
I have to strongly agree!
Yup!
Plus, the overall taste of the interaction involves also the partner's state of mind; if both could be on the same wavelength/frequency of sharing and giving to the other, and not so much wanting/taking something for the self, but receiving, then sex approaches veritable STO act.
Bottom line, it depends on how much we both, the partner and I, know/love each other and ourselves, and on being as collinear as possible in our 'mutual' goal and 'shared' desire.
P.S. The above, in principle, doesn't have anything to do with procreation. If I, or the partner, would be entering into the sexual intercourse with the stance of wanting to make a child, it would again be pretty much a STS act because of the sheer fact that Wanting is the underlying motive for doing it. OSIT.
so glad all went well Anya rest easy and take much careThat's good news Anya, thank you for letting us know that you're fine and that the surgery went well. Take some good rest!
Hello everyone! I am home and my surgery went very well. Very little pain. My doctor thinks I will recover very quickly. Thank you for your prayers and support. May the Divine Cosmic Mind bless you all! ♡♡♡
Wonderful news! thanks for letting us know!!Hello everyone! I am home and my surgery went very well. Very little pain. My doctor thinks I will recover very quickly. Thank you for your prayers and support. May the Divine Cosmic Mind bless you all! ♡♡♡
It's an exchange, or it has the potential to be one, and if it is a loving relationship, then it should balance out I think, maybe not in every occasion, but the energy will come and go where it's needed, sometimes it'll be you investing in her, and sometimes it'll be her investing in you and viceversa. That's the exchange, I think it doesn't have to be 50/50 perpetually, I think it shifts and moves from one side to the other at the rhythm of the dynamic.In my view, for a man, climax is intrinsically (physiologically) 'draining.' If I go to the gym and lift weights straight after sex, I have less power than if I have not. But that does not make it 'draining' in the sense I use that term when describing 4D STS dynamics. Similarly, my partner's climaxes during the act produce a subtle but tangibly 'draining' effect upon me - physical arousal is slightly undermined, a feeling of thirst produced etc. But again, that does not make the act as a whole draining or self centred, as it is a product of our love and attraction, and a part of the relationship as a whole.
According to Chinese medicine:I wonder what's up with this 3am thing.
two books that ive found very informative and practical on sexual energy are :daoist/tcm perspective :
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