I am not active anymore. When I was it was in the CM to FM almost IM range.
boris wrote:
You play chess, I think. In terms of chess, Buddha teaching is how to never lose. And there is only one way never lose in chess. Just to stop play
Yes, it is best to stop "playing" but for lay people, they are still in the "game" and are not required to be celibate.
greenjuice wrote:This is exactly the lax view of sexuality among Theravadins that I dont like, and I don't think there is really a reason to hold it. I personally find homosexuality immoral, just like e.g. autosexuality, too.
Thank goodness following the Dhamma does not mean following your personal notions about sex.
>> Do you see a man wise[enlightened/ariya]in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.<< -- Proverbs 26:12
This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” HPatDH p.723
This thread is about Ajahn Sugato and Marriage Equality. Please keep to this topic.
With metta,
Chris
---The trouble is that you think you have time---
---Worry is the Interest, paid in advance, on a debt you may never owe---
---It's not what happens to you in life that is important ~ it's what you do with it ---