Brother @zorim , sorry for the late reply. Iam also a newbie, learning and experimenting.
But, I read the book Practice of Brahmacharya by Swami Sivananda which was pretty useful as an introduction to the topic. Read it with an open mind, there are many useful content in it- like the asanas which are useful, many great tips for Brahmacharya etc. Some advices may be too hard to digest, so take what you find useful. You can easily find it online.
Above all, do hatha yoga along with Brahmacharya. Do Asanas, Pranayama etc. Most importantly eat moderately. There are many other books, currently Iam going through- conquering sex by Mahatma Gandhi, the coiled Serpent which gives the western perspective of celibacy etc.
Here you can find some useful content on the topic. collected it mainly from @JumpingBuddha 's diary and other threads.
There is one person I know personally who uplifted his life and soul to a really higher plane through semen retention and sexual transmutation.
My real brother.
Like everyone of our time, he also used to watch p*** and masturbated too. While in college, he used to copy some of those filthy videos in our computer and will hide it, in the hope that I won’t reach out to it . But through my cunning mind, I used to find those hidden folders and do pmo when he was out.
I knew he used to watch this but I don’t know whether he knew about my condition. We never talked about this openly.
But one day, one fucked up incident happened. I came home from school and went to the terrace for something and I accidentally saw him doing PMO. That was a really fucked up situation. And he saw me too. But, literally that was one of the life changing incident that happened in his life.
I acted like I didn’t see it and we never talked about it again. But from that moment on he decided to never fap again in his life. That happened when he came out from college and now 2-4 years forward he is thriving in his life like a god.
His YouTube channel has lakhs of subscribers and is living his life on fire. I don’t know any other man who is more confident and charismatic than him in social situation, picking up girls etc.
He uploads videos of picking up girls on his super bike (and he does it so easily that girls are jumping into his bike), fans are coming to my house to see him on most of the days.
He avoids sleep and edits his videos, always thinking about his next video and killing the game! Above all, his creativity is bursting out of his brain like a volcano. I know, the number reason for his success and growth is the power of semen retention and sexual transmutation. The idea of s is gone from his mind. He is in a long term relationship with a girl and is a virgin. They talk through phone most of time and sometimes he goes to her house. By avoiding sand lustful thoughts he is on god mode, literally.
This is a real life example and anyone can achieve this.
Just control the fucking lust and transmute your sexual energy.
Wake up (5 am) Make my bed Deep work (1 hour)
Yoga: Sookshma Vyayam, Soorya namaskar, asanas Om Chanting Pranayam- bhastrika, Kapalbanti, agnisar, shithali, anulom vilom, bhramri Jalandhar bandha Meditation (15 mins) Shavasan Affirmation and Visualization Cold shower at 7 Vajrasana after lunch Reading (Hatha Yoga Pradipika) Pray in the evening + Upanishads No TV No YouTube No junk food Mindful eating + Mitahara Evening Meditation (10 mins) Plan for tomorrow Sleep before 11
"There is another Samadhi (Asapranjata Samadhi) which is attained by the constant practice of cessation of all mental activity, in which the Chitta (Mind-stuff) is only the unmanifested impression.
Aphorism 18, Chapter 1- Samadhi pada (Patanjali Yoga Sutra)
How do we attain Asanprajnata Samadhi or perfect superconscious?
Its method is to hold the mind as the object and whenever thought comes, strike it down, allowing no thought to come into the mind, thus making it an entire vaccum - Swami Vivekananda
The opposite of lust is focus.
The greatest manifestation of power is to be calm
He who can stop the plunging horses of lustful thoughts is the strong man
Today I was getting strong urges. I searched in wikipedia about kama sutra and read a little about it. I don’t know, why the fuck I am doing this. I know this is very dangerous but still…
Then I opened my diary and read it from the end to top. Seriously brothers, not to brag or anything, I must admit that this is one of the most motivating diary in the forum
As I read and reached till the end, I felt all pumped up and am feeling like I can break a mountain into half now!
I invite everyone who is getting urges to my diary. MOTIVATION GAURANTEED
and PMO will run away in fear, if you keep the words in this diary in mind.
Indeed it is brother, You are the whole and soul of this forum. Your post charge everyone up.
I can feel it if one post can charge anyone up, then the whole diary is just
As is the sole purpose of meditation , and the most important one.
There are many ways you can strike them, the thoughts.
You can let them pass and not give attention (with practice ofcourse), you can give attention to it that it has surfaced and you get mindful of your work.
For me, I am super mindful these days.
I do my work with ease and for longer duration by being mindful. Mindfulness can be achieved by meditation. It gets stronger and better as you practice it more, thoroughly through the years .
Yesterday, I reached my zen literally, I used to listen to music while writing notes but as I know multitasking is bad, I sat simply, did my Journal writing with ease for hours.
Thoughts did come by, I noticed them and then, I would devote all my attention to my work at hand, here being writing.
This way, I was focused for hours and did not stress out and absolutely no Bordem.
At the end of the day, I was at peace and was feeling fulfilled.
After a very long time in my life , I felt no guilt, no stress, no boredom, no dopamine excessively and I was on complete dopamine detox for that day.I felt that tranquility that you achieve.
It was just one day, a long and fulfilling day but man, that was one of the happiest days of my life.
Work is Worship- Basavanna
Hopefully, you too can takeaway something from my experience, and you yourself can experience it.
Yha This Diary Is Actually You And Your Life…You Can See The Emotion Of Yourself When You Losed The Game When You Where In That High Streak…You Will Feel That Emotion When You Read This
@Tagore I utilized morning hours going through your diary (988 posts). Iam speecheless man. Totally. Thankyou for joining RC. I cannot say more. I lack words to describe what i felt.
I have been shaken in a positive way by all the members of RC, if I never joined, I would have still been an idiot and a servant to the world of lust .
I would have never known Brahmacharya, Nofap, semen retention, anything that’s good .
I was a no-one in a nowhere land but from Nofap, came Brahmacharya, from it came meditation,and from it, desire to seek knowledge and from it, the curiosity to find new things, liberating ones which are not superficial and sense pleasures as they are of the Greatest temptations.
Self control is the Greatest manifestation of power
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.5.4–5
This is one of the most important concept of stoic philosophy. The way to live a great and fulfilling life propounded by the greatest emperor of Rome- Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus- a slave who, solely through his intellectual power and strength, became one of the greatest philosopher and teacher, Seneca- one among the greatest playwrights and political advisers of Rome, still rings true in the modern world, even though two millennials have passed since their death.
Everyday in our lives we try to control and change things that are not in our control. We run after girls wasting a lot of time when the fact remains that whether she likes us or not doesn’t lie in our control, we constantly contemplate about past failures and misdeeds, fucking up our present, we watch pmo and waste time on social media and internet thinking that these actions will provide real happiness and meaning
But what is happening when we are wasting time on these immovable objects?
We are wasting the time that could be spent on the things we can change!
Instead of running after an ego-centered, nihilistic woman we could invest all that time on ourselves to uplift our soul and life to the next level, we could spent the hours worrying about past deeds (because that cannot be changed, what could be changed is our attitude to what happened in the past and this is very important. We could either use a memory of past sexual abuse to victimise ourselves or it can also be used as fuel for growth) to working on our craft or music or writing or studying to become a successful and great man.
So the next time you are trying to control anything which is out of your control, ask yourself:
Isn’t this a totally worthless and stupid task to spent my most valuable time worrying about the past, trying to change this person, running after this woman?
Because my life is mortal. This world has been there for billions of years and it will remain this way for a trillion years too. All that really matters is what I really want in this life. Everything else is petty, time wastage
And take action based on the authentic answer that comes to your mind.
Remember how long you’ve been putting this off… At some point you have to recognise what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned to you and if you don’t use it to free yourself it’ll be gone and will never return.
Yes brother. I really want to read Da Vinci but I am confused about where to start. I have searched for some of his books but felt like indigestible at present. But surely I’ll go back. For the time being, as you said I’ll start with a biography. Thanks for the suggestion man; appreciate that.
Currently I am readiing this book bro. Thanks to @anon13059885 . He suggested this book in the forum. I suggest it to all of you; along with reading one chapter everyday, keep a journal as well and write what came to your mind and what is related to your life. As a result we can gain more self knowledge. Journaling was an important exercise of Stoics. Marcus Aurelius’s timeless classic Meditations was his journal entries. It is now read a like religious text; it is one of the very important works of stoic philosophy.
collected it mainly from @JumpingBuddha 's diary and other threads.
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