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Behind The Mask
Why cant i let you go. Why cant you leave my head. Why do you play games. Why.... i try to forget, not to think bout you, but you just wont leave i dont know wether to move on or continue. I dont know why i care so much. Every song sings to me tells me to go back, everythin points to you, reminds me of you. I miss you more then you'll ever no. You ignore me, every time i try to holla you have to leave. You say one thin but refer to another. You have me confused, i dont no what to do or say anymore, im lost in thought. Nothin but regret, i shoulda never let u go.......
Golden Turtle
If problems remain intractable even after you have severed entanglements and simplified your affairs, just view them objectively. If you are heavily afflicted by sexuality, then you should view addiction to sex as coming from thoughts; if those thoughts do not occur, then there is no sex. So you should recognize that thoughts of sex are externally empty, while the idea of sex is inward imagination. The imagining mind is empty, so who is the subject of sexuality?
Scripture says, "Sexual objects are just mental imagery; since mental images are all empty, how can there be sexual objects?"
Also, think of how beautiful women are more dangerous than vixen sprites. Vixen sprites charm men, causing them aversion, so that they will not enter evil ways, even at the threat of death. Because of this aversion, they avoid promiscuity forever. Beautiful women bewitch men so that they become obsessed and grow more and more deeply attached even as it leads to their death. Because of wrong thoughts, on dying they fall into various states of hell. Scripture says," In this life you willed to become husband and wife, but after death you cannot live together."
Also consider this: if physical beauty is invariably attractive, why do fish dive and birds fly when they see a human, even a beautiful women? Wizards look upon physical beauty as muck and mire; the wise liken it to a sword or a hatchet.
If you do not eat for seven days you may die, but if you do not have sexual intercourse for a hundred years you will avoid premature death. Therefore we know that sex is not essential for body or mind but is an enemy to essence and life. Why be obsessed with it, bringing destruction on yourself?

From: Treatise on sitting forgetting by Sima Chengzheng Tand dynasty (618-907) traslated by Thomas Cleary from the Shambahla publication Taoist Meditation Methods for Cultivating a Healthy Mind and Body.
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