Quote:Kundalini is not something I've studied. I would have no idea how it relates to sexuality. However, I find the idea that one must "conquer" one's lust a little extreme, at least for me. I feel that all of our impulses have a good reason. I do agree that such lustful thoughts/reactions can be considered a creative force which can be used in many ways.
I would say it's pretty much the same thing as pure sexual energy. Sex energy seeks what? Merging. Merging is another term for or rather facet of love, but merging can be motivated from things other than love, and when it is, it blocks, limits, and facilitates stuckness. There is a difference between enjoying the fruits of the earth but not being attached to them, as compared to being controlled in some manner by them as most people are with lust. If one can make love purely out of higher motivations beyond purely physical pleasure, desire, and sensations, then sex can become more fully creative. But that seems quite, quite rare, for lust to be so absent in such unions that involve physical bodies because of the nature of the body to begin with, see? (even many nonphysical mergings and unions involve attachment and limitations of some kind). The world does need to be transcended within self, before you can fully remerge with Source.
To consecrate the body of each to one another, to act as a channel to bring an awakened Soul through, well that's about as creative an act as one can do in this world and still be involved in something "physical".
As far as the whole conquering thing, Vajra wrote the following:
Quote:The sexual cooling thing has for me not been a matter of willpower, more a matter of a natural easing. Theorising it's maybe because the energy gets diverted elsewhere.
I can't speak for others, but it's been pretty much the same for me. I wasn't seeking, desiring, wanting, or intending that this happened, it just happened and since i'm not that attached to it anyways i can let it flow away without any concern. But in any event, i see the benefits and positive aspect of this...
Also, i would point out there is a very big, important, but sometimes subtle difference between repressing or trying to "conquer" something, and consciously redirecting it for a higher purpose. Not everyone is called to go to the ultimate in this life like say Jesus (though he asks us to try in whatever life we find ourselves in).
But when this energy is consciously redirected throughout the entire energy system and to the fastest vibratory center, which is "guarded" by and resonates with the Pituitary, it is an amazing, powerful energy boost to the entire system. The more energy you have, the more you can do and be (the more you can Love and channel Love), and at that point for it even to be directed all the way to and through the Pituitary, Love as in PUL type must be your motivation, your ideal, and your practice. Well more so if its constantly flowing through all the energy centers in a perfect, balanced, and merged manner.
As Ian says, this powerful energy that corresponds to sexual energy and desire is getting diverted somewhere else and so you just lose the desire for it to begin with, or
rather the desire gets refined, universalized, and non attached. It is still "sexual" energy in a sense, because it is "merging" energy, except that now it becomes Universal Merging, and not limited in nature such as lust or romantic love oft involves. Limitation attracts and begets limitation. Universality attracts and begets universality. God or Source is Universality, and is remembered through living a life of Oneness.
Quote:Of course, love is the higher goal, the one which can show you the holiness in just about anything. I went to hear some music last night and this place I go is full of wonderful, positive energy. I don't know why it is so "light" in that place. No one else was dancing, but I danced through both sets of music by myself in the small area next to the stage. Most everyone else was riveted to their seats. I was feeling happy and centered and just in love with life. Perhaps I amused a few people.
Sounds like it was quite fun. I'm glad you had a good time and felt free to dance as you like. Frankly sounds kind of sexy, and would be a turn on if i could get turned on.
Quote:Whatever kundalini is, it was sure flowing everywhere it was supposed to be flowing last night. If that was it, it was gentle, happy, spirited, loving, and completely aware of everything around me, and every movement of my body.
Perhaps it flows freely when one feels free. Just a thought.
Yup, but i guess people have different conceptions of freedom. My conception of freedom, of ultimate freedom is using any or everything at your disposal to become the clearest channel of pure Light to others (at whatever cost to the limited self), and in that sense sacrificing one's sexual nature isn't really much of a "sacrifice" to begin with if it serves a greater good than selfs own narrow, temporal, outer based, materially focussed and thus limited pleasures. With that said, there is nothing wrong with sex and enjoying same, but there are infinitely greater and limitless pleasures to be had. Don't underestimate the power and the catalytic potential of that energy when it gets consciously redirected for a greater good.
One time my wife woke up quite amorous, but decided to not do anything about it. Soon after, she OBE vaulted into space, came face to face with a much larger, older and whiter Star than our Sun (she could have been experiencing her own Crown Chakra), and experienced an extremely orgasmic energy explosion throughout her energy system which reverberated back and forth, or "up" and "down" her Chakras. She said it was much, much, much more intensely pleasurable than any
earthly sex and orgasm she has ever had before.
That's the kind of state that i believe those like Jesus get to enjoy all the time, though it's not always necessarily at full blast like that (i don't really know..). In a way you could say, folks and consciousnesses like that are just the ultimate, hard core hedonists out there..
So yes, if one is looking to re-remember and re-become PUL personafied in this life, then yes losing one's attachment to the sex drive and to those desires is potentially quite beneficial and catalytic if the motivation and intent is the right one. As far as i know, no one here is saying that you need to be celibate to be a loving person though. It can just help one to become a more effectively and consistently and more purely loving person if the right intent and motivation is there.
Notice how similar the sound of Celebrate is to Celibate...just a coincidence?