If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page.
Fark SearchWeb Fark

         more options... Create account

(Yahoo) Strange Tantric master breaks record by immersing self in ice for 72 minutes. You're doing it wrong   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 54
More: Strange  
•       •       •

6698 clicks; posted to Main » on 27 Jan 2008 at 1:20 PM   |  Make this a Fark FavoriteFavorite    |   share: Share on OMGTWITTER WEB2.0share on StumbleUponshare on Facebook  more»   |    Get this fabulous T-Shirt and impress the methane out of your friends! shirt it!

54 Comments   (+0 »)


Archived thread
First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all
 
jmmsmile [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 09:24:12 AM  
I saw this guy yesterday. He was on 17th St. off 6th Ave. I just happened to be walking by. They filled his cylindrical plastic tank with ice. I knew I had an hour or so before he got out, so I ate lunch and came back. When he came out, (tank dumped over) his skin was a purple-ish red, but in good spirits. Cool.

/not submitter

 
St_Francis_P [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 10:34:41 AM  
This guy takes chilling out pretty seriously.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 01:14:58 PM  
Tantric E-mail exchange...

Bra, (short for BRAHMIN BULL LOL) Did you see the Pramada bathing yesterday in the Ganges? I could so see her bindu. I practically blew my chakra right then and there.


RE: Pramada's bundu.
Dude...take a 72 minute ice immersion.

 
Richard Pye 2008-01-27 01:30:02 PM  
Not cool, dude.

 
midnite_farker 2008-01-27 01:30:39 PM  
cool, dude

/or cool dude...

 
GoofingOff 2008-01-27 01:33:54 PM  
While I do believe that you can control your mind to pretty much do anything such as this event, it is an idiotic way to prove that you can do it. Why not use your brain to say...build a snow machine out of an air compressor and pressure washer or something?

 
Driver [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-01-27 01:34:34 PM  
Will he get Mr. Cool Ice tattoos next?

link (new window)

 
puffy999 [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 01:34:51 PM  
You know, if I was a tantric master, I'd be immersing myself in vagina for 72 hours.

 
ultraholland 2008-01-27 01:36:20 PM  
www.jaunted.com
Approves.

 
flexflint 2008-01-27 01:39:20 PM  
Did you guys know that "tantric sex, in brief, is based on the male partner using his PC muscles (the same muscles you use to stop the flow of urine) to delay orgasm"? Hmm? Who needs viagra anyway, when you have Wikipedia.

 
ThatGuyOverThere 2008-01-27 01:41:38 PM  
I liked the part of the book Siddhartha where he decides that he's tired of learning this kind of trick from the Samanas, so he uses their own tricks against them and leaves.

It's totally cool that they can make this sort of thing happen, but really, why? Is being able to be healthy in the cold really going to affect your daily life so much?

What good does making your palms smell like flowers or learning to levitate do you?

 
quatchi 2008-01-27 01:44:19 PM  
How exactly does one prepare oneself fer a 72 minute immersion in ice?

Sex wih Hillary?

/Brrrr!

 
dbirchall [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 01:44:37 PM  
puffy999 You know, if I was a tantric master, I'd be immersing myself in vagina for 72 hours.

Not this guy... can you say "shrinkage?"

 
Zonc 2008-01-27 01:46:04 PM  
and ceiling cat yawns

 
ceejayoz 2008-01-27 01:50:09 PM  
ThatGuyOverThere: What good does making your palms smell like flowers or learning to levitate do you?

Yes, what use could levitation possibly be?

bp0.blogger.com

 
dognose4 2008-01-27 01:50:49 PM  
It didn't look like an ice bath. it looked like a pile of ice cubes. It's really not the same thing.

I'd be that he could sort of make an ice cave inside the pile, where most of his body could not be in contact with ice. I'd think it'd be the only way to do it.

 
naveline 2008-01-27 01:53:22 PM  
Dude, HHWHY? I like cannot comprehend how this feat could like, possibly do or like, mean anything. It just, like can't impact or impress my shallow ignorant brain!

umm, can you conjure a Wii for me yogi-mystic? Cause I like am so sarcastic.

 
naveline 2008-01-27 01:54:08 PM  
Dude, HHWHY? I like cannot comprehend how this feat could like, possibly do or like, mean anything. It just, like can't impact or impress my shallow ignorant brain!

umm, can you conjure a Wii for me yogi-mystic? Cause I am like so bored and sarcastic.

 
flexflint 2008-01-27 01:55:11 PM  
ThatGuyOverThere: why? Is being able to be healthy in the cold really going to affect your daily life so much?

If I'm not mistaken it's a convenient consequence of the belief, not a major goal. Along the lines of "healthy mind in a healthy body".

quatchi: How exactly does one prepare oneself fer a 72 minute immersion in ice?

Those extreme divers come to mind, they always meditate before they take the plunge, to get their heart-rate down.

 
naveline 2008-01-27 01:55:26 PM  
raped by flood protection.

DUDE, like, if you want to make an impact in the world, cause my girlfriend's boobs to swell using yoga flame, kay???

 
Mouser 2008-01-27 01:56:04 PM  
Hypothermia for fun and prophet!

 
RiverKing 2008-01-27 01:57:53 PM  
brap: Tantric E-mail exchange...

Bra, (short for BRAHMIN BULL LOL) Did you see the Pramada bathing yesterday in the Ganges? I could so see her bindu. I practically blew my chakra right then and there.


RE: Pramada's bundu.
Dude...take a 72 minute ice immersion.


Tantric sex, in brief, is based on the male partner using his PC muscles (the same muscles you use to stop the flow of urine) to delay orgasm. The practice is said to come from Buddhist folklore.

 
Oznog 2008-01-27 01:58:41 PM  
a.abcnews.com

I tell you, we can get you this power. We have the power, and it is ours. By the time you're Operating Thetan Level IV you can lie in frozen ice indefinitely. With me, with us, we can use this sort power and others to heal the world.

/At OT V you can kill a yak from 50 yards away WITH MIND BULLETS!!!

 
jonthenewt 2008-01-27 02:09:22 PM  
Oznog: I tell you, we can get you this power. We have the power, and it is ours. By the time you're Operating Thetan Level IV you can lie in frozen ice indefinitely. With me, with us, we can use this sort power and others to heal the world.

/At OT V you can kill a yak from 50 yards away WITH MIND BULLETS!!!


Bwhahaha, that's great. Gives me an excuse to post this as well:

img.photobucket.com

 
vonClogg 2008-01-27 02:13:36 PM  
Oznog: /At OT V you can kill a yak from 50 yards away WITH MIND BULLETS!!!

That's telekinesis, Kyle....

 
vonClogg 2008-01-27 02:16:17 PM  
72 minutes does sound suspiciously like the amount of time it might take for enough ice to melt that the water level surrounds him....

 
godofusa.com 2008-01-27 02:18:26 PM  
dumb.

 
CaptainBeer 2008-01-27 02:18:53 PM  
Don't hassle the Hof.


can't believe I was the first w/ this one

 
CravenMorehead 2008-01-27 02:20:43 PM  
Imagine the shrinkage.

 
Atypical Person Reading Fark [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 02:24:48 PM  
My experience is that learning tantric methods, as odd as they sound, improve one's performance in many other areas of life.

Men who know tantric sex techniques have much more immediate benefits from their practice. Srsly.

 
Larva Lump 2008-01-27 02:29:33 PM  
ThatGuyOverThere

Is being able to be healthy in the cold really going to affect your daily life so much?

It could. (poppage from the past)

 
Oznog 2008-01-27 02:34:56 PM  
media.adn.com

My powers- let me teach them to you!

 
blighted 2008-01-27 02:39:33 PM  
vonClogg: 72 minutes does sound suspiciously like the amount of time it might take for enough ice to melt that the water level surrounds him....

Ice water would be worse than just ice. The water conducts the heat of your body away much faster.

 
bacccc 2008-01-27 02:39:45 PM  
It amazes me that people can still buy in to what is a very cheap parlor trick.

/yeah, he's "controlling his body temp with his mind"
//that's the ticket!
///farking retards

 
shadowf200 2008-01-27 02:45:26 PM  
St_Francis_P: This guy takes chilling out pretty seriously.

You shall be administered daily thorough beatings for this terrible pun.

 
xmasbaby [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 02:52:07 PM  
I'd like to see this guy use his powers of tantric mind control to get get through the first 3 weeks of BUD/S. That would impress me.

/I sound like a internet tough guy.
// "You were never in Nam, fatass!"

 
vonClogg 2008-01-27 03:06:49 PM  
<b>blighted:</b> <i>vonClogg: 72 minutes does sound suspiciously like the amount of time it might take for enough ice to melt that the water level surrounds him....

Ice water would be worse than just ice. The water conducts the heat of your body away much faster.</i>

Exactly.

 
Oznog 2008-01-27 03:13:03 PM  
plaza.ufl.edu

David Blaine's gonna sue yer ass.

/If it were up to me, I wouldn't have let him out.
//Didn't he like switch with a body double periodically for that one?

 
flexflint 2008-01-27 03:21:28 PM  
Atypical Person Reading Fark:

You can't leave us in the cold like that, it's inhuman. You're also on Fark, and the brainpower of many, many young men is demanding you to elaborate.

 
i ate my crayon 2008-01-27 03:33:49 PM  
No water; no salt; not impressed.

I bet the layer of ice in contact with his body melted then refroze, and the weight of the ice above his shoulders compacted everything creating an igloo-like compartment

 
TSD [TotalFark] 2008-01-27 03:38:22 PM  
i41.photobucket.com

 
gund 2008-01-27 03:50:21 PM  
For those who think it's fake, why not repeat the experiment in your bathtub? Go down to the store, buy a few bags of ice, and video tape it.

It's a freaking world record if you beat him, you'll get your name on newspapers and fark.com. Of course you better notify Guinness to come and make sure you don't cheat.

 
darkmatterhari 2008-01-27 04:26:46 PM  
ThatGuyOverThere I liked the part of the book Siddhartha where he decides that he's tired of learning this kind of trick from the Samanas, so he uses their own tricks against them and leaves.

EPIC fail. First try reading the non-buddhist text by Herman Hesse again, you might find you missed something.

Feats like this can, and have, been used to raise awareness of what can be accomplished through meditation. On the one hand it's a publicity stunt on the other it might teach people about meditation and maybe just one person gets benefit from it.

 
Cyber_Junk 2008-01-27 04:30:38 PM  
that's just farking cool

 
inelegy 2008-01-27 06:08:21 PM  
I've been freezing my ass off in the upper Midwest for more than 43 years.

This guy's a pussy.

 
Killface08 2008-01-27 06:22:26 PM  
Tantric sex involves climax without ejaculation. This leads to multiple male orgasm. There are many great books avalable to help you to become proficient at this. Its totally worth the time (and your partner will be totally amazed!),

 
Killface08 2008-01-27 06:26:17 PM  
Oops. I forgot to mention the article. Have you ever noticed that you become very warm when angry or embarrassed? Its not difficult to learn to be warm/hot. It does take practice and involves very specific meditations. Tibetan monks are known to sit in the snow with only a loose robe on, the snow melting around them. They even sleep like this.

 
Nutsac_Jim 2008-01-27 06:32:13 PM  
Big deal.

use a bunch of round ice cubes and very few are in contact with you.

try that with a tub of shaved ice and then Ill be impressed.

 
Mephistox 2008-01-27 06:56:54 PM  
I absolutely cannot believe there were no Mr. Freeze references yet...

so let me be the first:
img140.imageshack.us
approves.

/It's cold in heaarreee!
//My name is freeze, remember it for it will be your DOOM!
///It was on this morning, It couldn't help but watch it.

 
vexanation 2008-01-27 07:25:05 PM  
img34.imageshack.us
img299.imageshack.us
img156.imageshack.us

all approve.

 
Displayed 50 of 54 comments

First | « | 1 | 2 | » | Last | Show all


[Continue Farking]