Someone wrote: It happens sometimes to consume wine even knowing that it is probably full of preservatives and dyes, candies and the like which have in common the fact of not being genuine. Similarly it often happens that, through pornography, I masturbate, so discharging the tension that the old ego builds up. I notice that during all this I feel the ephemeral pleasure that I get while remaining conscious during the process ... without getting lost in the process.
Is this a real road to health, I wonder? What is your point of view?
While waiting for…..
a big hug.
Dadrim replied: Like everything, it's always a question of balance and awareness.
Sexuality is part of this existence, like the rain, the stars, the sky and our smiles, and it is nothing to condemn or repress, but not even anything to cheer or to indulge to. It is to say, in fact, that when it rains for days our mood is never the best, in the same way, when sex, like everything else, begins to take larger and larger areas of our lives, our inner balance deteriorates.
Now, the solution of the problem does not lie in trying to block the impulses, but in trying to understand why they take the domain in areas of our inner world, which should be under the control of other forces.
Sex, when it lives in harmony with feelings and thoughts, finds its proper place and implementation.
The sexual act has an immense liberating power, transformative and regenerating only when supported by a state of harmony of the three dimensions that make up the human being, i.e. body, mind and conscience. But when sexual desire becomes a kind of drug useful just useful to quench the stress and suffering that come from one of the three dimensions that constitute our being, the erotic act turns into a narrow means of escape and self-forgetfulness.