Semen Retention

It’s no big deal; at least it’s on the New Forum where
people can see it . . .

But screw up again, and we castrate you–eliminating the
need for Semen Retention 😉

Just kidding, buddy 🙂

Have fun with life,
Steven

>>>Does anyone know if Master Chia is still practicing
>>>semen retention and, if so, what is the longest period
>>>he has gone without ejaculation?
>>>Does Michael Winn practice semen retention for
>>>long periods of time?

I personally do not know, but you could always e-mail Michael
or M. Chia directly and ask . . . you might get a response.

>>>Are there other folks on this forum who are practicing
>>>or have practiced semen retention for long periods of time?

You’ll have to see if anyone responds.
As for me, I personally DO NOT.

Some things to mention about that:

1. If you are sufficiently skilled, by doing HL techniques
you can remove much of the sexual energy from the ejaculate
before you release. Then if you do release, the loss is
minimized, akin to “shooting blanks”, i.e. not as big a deal.

2. If you do release, and you are still paranoid about loss,
some practitioners (which I’ll keep anonymous) have let me
know about many different things that they’ve done with
the ejaculate rather than throw it out. Obviously this
depends greatly on your personal “ick” factor, LOL. But
I have reports of people a) reconsuming it to recapture
some of the remaining loss, b) using it as a “magical elixir”
in various “Taoist magical ceremonies”, c) using it to anoint
pendants and charms to increase their charge, d) using it as
an ingredient to make supercharged talismans, etc., e) others
I’m forgetting at the moment, but I think you get the idea.

3. There is some good that can come from release. Biologically,
it provides a prostate flush–gets rid of old aging prostate fluid
that your body is storing for example . . . helps decrease
prostate irritation from this stagnating fluid.

4. If you are in a loving relationship with someone, occasional
release can be considered a “wonderful gift” that you are giving
to your partner.

PERSONALLY, I do not do long-term semen retention, in part because
of my belief in #1 and #3 above, as well as “my gut feeling” that
extremist practices may not be wise.

However, I say this based on what I feel is right for me, and not for others.
If it feels right to you, knock yourself out and keep doing it!

Everyone is different, and everyone’s circumstances are different.

M. Chia spent most of his earlier life (and continues to do so
through his constant workshops) practicing; thus, it’s probably a
reasonable practice for him to do.

For me, being a graduate student, I
can really only afford to practice 1.5-2 hours a day max with
various Healing Tao practices–as such, long-term semen retention
for me is not sustainable; this is especially even more so,
since my chart consists almost solely of Water and Wood!!
Hence, in my situation, if I try long-term semen retention,
eventually the increased feeling of energy and greatness starts
getting counteracted by feeling unbalanced, feeling in overdrive,
and having my attention so consumed by sexual thought (and it
preoccupies my thoughts a lot anyway) that I literally can
not get any work done whatsoever, i.e. it’s not practical.
I realize intuitively that I could balance myself out and
capitalize on the increased energy if I increased my personal
practice level to around a 5-6 hour per day commitment which
I do do easily during hermit retreats; but when I’m in school,
I’m not in a position where I can do that right now. So for
me, long-term retention is an “extremist” practice.

But again, that’s not to say that it might not be right for
someone else. Again, if it feels right to you, by all means
keep doing it.

My approach is one of moderation, since it should also
be obvious that daily or regular ejaculation is excessive
and will weaken your lifeforce considerably.

So what seems to work the best for me is to refrain
from ejaculation for shorter periods, using sexual practice
to help with that and use the practice to get increased
energy, but only for shorter periods. Then, at some
point, I feel the “time is right” for release. Then I
do sexual practice to remove a good percentage of sexual
charge from my ejaculate, and then let go.

Time frame for me is about 1-2 weeks, which might not
seem like a lot, but considering that without employing
any practice or discipline I’d be releasing daily/every
other day, I consider it a win–it feels like a good
balance point between the two extremes.

Also, I should say that the time frame depends greatly
on the time of year. In the dead of winter, I can extend
the time frame longer without much difficulty. Late
spring/early summer, I feel more revved up and I can’t
manage (practically) as long.

This doesn’t really address your questions, as they were
posed for long-term retainers (which doesn’t apply to me),
but thought I’d add my two cents, nonetheless.

Happy retaining,
Steven

I have done 100 days wihout ejaculation 3 times.
I will write more about it later. No time for the moment.
But certainly there are many interesting effects and changes I have noticed.
I’ll be back

S D

ChiFriend,

Thanks for your experiences. From my limited understanding the jing is one type of energy and can be polarized yin in a female or yang in a male. It can also be in a yin state, cold and calm or in a yang state hot and excited.

Maybe some energy went up your thrusting channel for a different experience. Though a Warning if you haven’t opened your thrusting channel up yet then I think you shouldn’t play with it. Or maybe something changed and you have just gone to a deeper level and now experience awesome valley orgasims. Just remember that if you expect the same expectation everytime you will be dissapointed. It is better to have no expectations and be in the present moment and you will always be surprised. Let us know what happens over the next few days of you experimenting.

At least you didn’t have to wait for the holidays to come for fireworks 😉

Balance.

Hello

Mostly the meditation with the lotus flower and the other exercises that is in the first set of the tao-yin, according to Mantak Chia.

But also inner smile, and six healing sound.

I realy did enjoy the meditation with the lotus flower, in which you let a lotus flower blossom in your heart and let the kidneys be the center from which the roots going down the legs into the ground or bottom of the sea.

1 Inhale the sun energy to the heart
2 Do the heart sound on the outbreath and take the hot energy from the heart
down the spine towards the kidneys
3 Inhale earth energy thrue the roots to the kidneys
4 Exhale the kidney sound and take kidney energy to cool down the heart.

And so on

end with going between the flower and the kidneys mentally for a while and cool down and relax.

Cool energy from the kidneys relaxes the heart
Hot energy from the heart keeps the kidneys warm.

This is the tao

The exercise is wery relaxing and as I see it quite similar to fusion, but only with two of the elements. Just the two I did feel as I needed to balance. 🙂

I think this exercise did alot of the job.

There was some sensations starting in the back between the scapulas. The joints in the spine in that area was loosening up with the help of this exercise. I noticed this wery often. This is around the point connected to the heart but in the back side.

What was most amazing was the effectivness of some of the most basic or first exercises in the system, when I otherwise am doing much more advanced stuff, whithout the same nice efect, only sometimes 🙂

To find what you need in the moment that is a blessing!

SD