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*yawn*

I wonder why we read so much about sexual "development techniques" and that they lead to all kinds of wonderful things, but fail to see accounts of masters who did this successfully and became wise, enlightened, mature human beings? IMO the whole discussion is beside the point.

I found all theories of people who think you can reach enlightenment by somehow super-charging the body with sexual energy to be somehow hard to believe and illogical. There surely are more useful activities that lead to personal development than worrying about losing energy through masturbation - that's at least my guess.

IMO that is a way too simple understanding of energy. It's not simply how much, but which kind. How pure. Whether it is flowing freely. The balance of the more subtle and the more gross energies. Having an abundance of physical energy may be useful to martial artists, but for everybody else IMO it is more decisive in what shape you keep yourself energetically - whether you learn to release negativity, be open to the subtle, learn the workings of your mind. In my experience that has next to nothing to do how you relate to "helping yourself".

Take good care,
Oliver