Abstaining from sex, if it comes down to it, is really about learning to observe your thoughts and then controlling them.

Abstinence is a battle between two thoughts, on the one hand the thought of wanting to abstain from sex, and on the other the evil thought, that is, the thought of wanting to break the fast and wanting to indulge. Many preceptors struggle and are conflicted before breaking the precepts, because the two thoughts are in a tug-of-war in their minds, and the two thoughts are fighting in their minds, depending on which thought prevails, and many preceptors finally succumb to the evil thought, which leads to breaking the precepts. There are also those preceptors who don't fight at all in their minds, and as soon as the evil thoughts come up, they immediately surrender, and immediately start jerking off, and there is no process of resistance at all. It's like fighting a war without soldiers defending the city, immediately letting the enemy in, and immediately falling! When we study the article on abstinence from sex, we are constantly fortifying our city, so that evil thoughts can't come in, and as soon as we find that evil thoughts are climbing the walls of the city, we are immediately alerted to it, and we exterminate it.

The enemy: the devil of the mind (masturbation, thoughts of encouragement, thoughts of trying, etc.)

Our side: Positive thoughts (the awareness of abstinence from sex that comes from raising awareness through study)

The devil of the heart is the enemy's commander-in-chief. Evil thoughts are sent out by the devil of the heart, with masturbation being the main cause, and thoughts of encouragement should also be extra vigilant. Buddhism talks about “subduing the mind”, in fact, is to subdue the evil thoughts, subdue the mind demon. Of course, the scope of Buddhism to subdue more, greed, anger, dementia, slowness and doubt should be subdued, and we want to subdue is the thought of greed. However, when abstaining to a higher level, in fact, greed, anger, dementia, slowness and doubt are all to be subdued, because abstaining from sex is also to focus on cultivating virtue and cultivating Taoism, so that we can reach a higher realm.

Some preceptors break the precepts, lose morale and enthusiasm, just like defeating the war, feel very discouraged, some simply become a prisoner of the devil, continuously break the precepts, the more the precepts get worse and worse. To make themselves very distressed, in fact, to overcome the devil, we must continue to learn to improve awareness, armed with knowledge of abstinence our minds, this time to face the devil failed, do not be afraid to strengthen the study, more lessons learned, next time to continue to challenge the devil old monster. As long as you continue to make progress, there will always be a day to defeat the heart of the devil, to be more and more courageous, can not be scared by the temporary failure, seems to feel that the heart of the devil is invincible, the heart of the devil is indeed very strong, the heart of the devil is also very good at drilling holes, but is not unbeatable. It is true that the mind is very strong and the mind is very good at exploiting it, but it is not invincible!

Venerable Daan: “Cultivation is cultivating the mind, and what is cultivating the mind? It's cultivating thoughts!” Our abstinence is also cultivating the mind and thoughts. Many preceptors don't understand the practice of mindfulness and don't know what mindfulness is. In fact, “mindfulness” is your thoughts, that is, mindfulness. Before you develop, your daily thoughts are free of the yellow poison and are relatively pure, like a pure mountain spring, not seriously polluted. But after development, began to contact with yellow content or by evil friends to bring bad, the heart will become dirty, our thoughts connected like a river, if we have been thinking about yellow content, will pollute the river, the original pure river will become dirty stink, and the phase by the heart, the heart phase is dirty, but also will be reflected in the body, but also will be reflected in the face of the because the body and the mind is united. Frequent jerking off people, there will be a jerking off face, obscene low self-esteem without spirit, and even face deformation, the body will also appear all kinds of discomfort, dark disease suffering.

Because the mind becomes dirty, one's body also tends to stink, and the mind and body are counterparts! In the cases that I have collected, the bodies of many of my fellow ex-abstainers have become smelly, with fox odor, sweat odor, foot odor, halitosis, and nasal odor being more common.

Case 1: I have a history of excessive masturbation for 4 to 5 years. Almost once a day, now I have back pain, weakness, always feel tired and can't exert myself, I didn't have fox odor earlier, but now I have fox odor when I sweat a little. The company has a lot of people who are not familiar with it, so it is a good idea for them to get it right. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have an erection or ejaculation. I'm not sure if it's premature ejaculation or kidney deficiency. If it is a kidney deficiency, is it a yang deficiency or a yin deficiency? In addition, the sperm is no spermatozoa, how can it be caused?

Case 2: I have been masturbating since I was 13 years old! It's been 2 years, every day when it's frequent, or once every 2 days. Since masturbating for 1 year, I've developed uncomfortable symptoms. First I felt back pain, slowly, over time, I started to have back pain when I ran, which was quite severe. After that the problems got worse and worse, there was focal sweating. And bad odor. But I don't have a family history of fox odor, how can I have fox odor? I think it has something to do with masturbation.

Case 3: back pain brain a blank, do something sweaty and have bad breath and bad breath and feet, why the God all of these misfortunes in the body, a few days ago there has been half a month without masturbation, the night before last and broke, and now stained with jock itch. I'm not sure if I've done anything wrong in my past life, but I'm going to have to pay for it this time around. I can't even quit masturbating, so I'm screwed for the rest of my life! Please don't masturbate anymore, don't be like me.

Masturbation leads to endocrine disruption, leading to the five organs dysfunction, the original does not have fox odor people will also appear fox odor, masturbation is a potential factor leading to fox odor. I also had sweat odor before, then foot odor is very serious, now completely quit masturbation after, not stink at all, even if the sweat does not smell, there is a saying that the cessation of the true fragrance, adhere to the cessation of health, control the frequency of spermatorrhea, the body is going to restore the fragrance of the body, that is a very subtle feeling, just like a child's body odor, that is exactly the soul of the fragrance.

We learn to quit the article, in fact, in the strengthening of the power of positive thinking, the power of the mind is really powerful, especially in the era of pornography and drug abuse, although the mind is very powerful, like 100 level of the old monster, but is not invincible, as long as you continue to practice (practicing enlightenment level), one day you can beat the mind, which is the reasoning of the online game is completely similar. Continuously practicing, constantly long enlightenment, from the beginning of the rookie, and then and the demon of the heart, and then completely subdue the demon of the heart, basically this is a process. If you give up studying or get tired of studying, then your level of awareness is not able to fight against the mind demon, it is not able to resist the attack of the mind demon. To abstain from sex is to practice, to practice the level of awareness, every day to study the article of abstinence from sex, more notes and more review, is practicing the level of awareness. As the saying goes, learning raises awareness, and awareness subdues the mind's demons! Quitting is a war of thoughts, constantly strengthening the positive thoughts, let the positive thoughts strong, let the positive thoughts invulnerable, you can completely subdue the evil thoughts, you can completely subdue the mind demon. The mind demon is like a spring; if you are weak, he is strong; if you are strong, he is weak! You must make yourself strong through study; there is no other choice!