vijaybali wrote:Dear friend,
sex is postive for reiki or negative.
can we left sex to become good healer.?
my experienced i feel it is normal in both condition. or any technic where i can judge the effect of of both.
but what is your personal experience, not bookish.
waiting for you response
tx
vj
hi Vijay
hope you are going good in your lovely city Delhi !
it was an apt question, and i dont know why it has not been so far discussed at large in the late reiki-4-all froum (from which most of us hail)
i would venture giving my input here
humans, (generally)
, have a body and a soul.... and what makes them called humans (not apes, not angels) is a refined, artistic balance between the two aspects....
our soul wants to elevate itself to the highest, and want to cut down physical ties, as much as they could be.. our body needs satisfaction of instinctive requirements, as much as it can... and our poor being, is the judge, the allocator, the decision-maker of what to give to which part, and how much
so we've been put into real hard position of deciding something that is too dificult to decide
eastern thought is equivocal on sex... control it, or that it would control your development by hampering it.... ancient scripts have always portrayed sex as something directly opposite to spiritual development... and for a big period of my life, i was so blatuntly involved in this 'myth' too
western thought, thanksgod, does not so miserably link development with controlling sex.... but this tendency,has the other effects of too much allowing sex in lives, that otherwise make us cost high on some thing....
i feel, balance is the real beauty, and so is with the sex too
vijay, i feel your question that whether sex is beneficial or harmful for reiki, stems from that same age-old eastern thought, that, for example, kundalini does not rise while sex is on the rise
and i can appreciate your question, since a lot of our breed in the east has literally runined their delight and ease of mind by unnecessarily thinking about negative effects of sex... it is not sex that is making them lose, but the burden of sex!
spirtitual development, and more particularly spiritual practices like contact with spirits, conquer of astral body, various sidhis, etc. have all prescribed to avoid sex during these practices... and this might be having a logical appeal too... sex consumes our suppressed energies, substitutes them with lighter energies, and makes us feel relaxed... its not that sex only takes energies, rather it is also right that sex gives us energies too... but of a different frequency, a different vibration...
so if we decide to seclude ourselves for some hard spiritual practices, sex-prohibition can be a necessary condition, but for the rest who just want to have spiritual enlightment in a gradual, natural way, sex is not such a no-go area!
by the way, thanks Wayne for elaborating upon muslim teachings regarding sex.... first thing is that what islam prescribes about sex is not to be searched in the lives of today muslims, rather in the original teachings of Quran and life of Prophet...
islam allows polygamy, not that islam idealizes or induces polygamy... marriage is always a religo-cultural instrument, and has to be seen in context with local norms of a society... the birth of Islam, the Arab, was a place where men would be having tens of wives, keeps, mistresses, (whatever names could be added) and they would take pride on the number of women they would be having... the greater the number, the more masculine was considered the tribal elder, or the man conerned....
and what islam prescribed to them ?? it restricted them to keep only four wives! so it hit so very hard on the Arab culture by controlling and regulating the sex activity.... if we read the tough requirements islam prescribes to be fulfilled during polygamy, we are stunned, since such requirements are almost equivalent to prohibiting polygamy... its not a fun activity... polygamy is a big responsibility, and a god-fearing muslim finds himself too incapacitated to fulfill the big list, that eventually he feels its better to suffice with one
hope i was helpful in the question Vijay
take care
salman