practicing in the desire realm

1. Practicing in the
Desire Realm
Monthly AUA (Ask Us Anything)

2. Josh #1:
What is Kusala
(Wholesome)
Sexual Energy?
? ?
? ?

3. Five Training Precepts are about refraining
from. Refrain from misusing sexual energy.
Avoid breaking up relationships and sexual
activity only in committed relationships.
So what's the opposite positive version?

4. Skillful and
appropriate
relational energy

5. Most anything of sexual
nature is taboo in the West
for both skillful and wise
reasons as well as unskillful
and unwise reasons

6. Cognitive dissonance of hyper-
sexualization promoted in mass media
and culture but along with #metoo,
sexual repression, dress codes,
"princess programing", "toxic
masculinity", gender confusion, and
"battle of the sexes"

7. Skillful and
appropriate
relational energy

8. Denny #1:
Eight “Touches”

9. Three Dimensions of Existence
Mind (Citta)
Energy (Qi)
Body (Kaya) Particle (Material)
Wave (Energy)
Quantum Information
Duality

10. Yoga = Yuj = Yoke = Union (Harness) of Body and Mind

11. Five Stages of Mind Practice
Knowing
知
Quieting
止
Contemplating
觀
Deconstructing
破
Emancipating
捨
Mindfulness of Body
(Kāyagatāsati)
Mindfulness of Mind?

12. Kama-Loka (The Sense-
Desire Realm)
Rupa-Loka (The Form
Realm)
Arupa-Loka (Formless
Realm)
Saṃsāra

13. Miller is the first planet orbiting
Gargantua (a black hole 100 million
times the mass of our sun)
1 Hour on Miller = 7 years on Earth

14. kāmavacara-devā (六欲天) 1 day (year on earth)
Four Heavenly Kings (四王天) 50
Tāvatiṃsa (忉利天) 100
Yaamaah (夜摩天) 200
Tushita (兜率天) 400
Nirmāṇarati (化樂天) 800
Parinirmita-vaśavartin (他化自在天) 1,600
1 hr on Miller's planet = 7 years on Earth
(24 hours = 168 years)

15. Sensation Without Perception or Attention Without Intention
i.e., “No Thinking Mind” (saññā-vedayita-nirodha 滅受想定)

16. What are the Eight “Touches” (八觸)?
1. Movement (動) : interaction of all four elements, earth, water, fire and wind
causing either regular or irregular movement or gyration of body
2. Itchiness (癢)
3. Cold or Coolness (冷)
4. Hot or Warm (暖)
5. Weightlessness (輕) : exaggeration of the wind element, body feels light, like
cloud or dust, as if flying
6. Heaviness (重)
7. Smoothness (滑) : body feels smooth as butter or milk, can sense bright light
8. Roughness (澀) : body feels rough, like sandpaper