
Originally Posted by
JohnJones
I wonder if there's people in the forum who have aphantasia - a phenomenon where they just can't create a mental image of anything when their eyes are closed.
Those who talk about wanking after a punt, I'm pretty sure they have a good mastery of creating images in their head as they would remember the girl they had a good time with. For example, I would imagine being with my crush every night having a good time and snuggling together until the morning.
There is a type of meditation that brings about the creation of merits without needing to perform material offerings, although for those with aphantasia or those who can't focus well on a certain thought or image for more than 10 seconds would need a tool to help bring out that imagination and focus.
This type of meditation is quite involved. You would be visualising a paradise filled with celestial beings. For some it can take hours to imagine and hold that image uninterrupted. But the way it brings about merits is that our material clinging gets offered. It's a little different from imagining that we're sitting on a beach with ordinary naked human beings because that arouses our ego. When visualising naked celestial beings instead and imagining showing respect and offering kindness to them, we create merit.
There is also a method of creating merits by imagining having sex with an actual goddess but that requires a secret initiation, because if done wrong may create strong mental imbalances.
If I get to reunite with my crush I have a powerful initiation for her. She can become the great beautiful goddess Vajrayogini and end up helping others with tremendous realisations. Vajrayogini embodies the strongest feminine power known to all the universes.