What do you mean? Shouldn't it be obvious? A person can just pay for sex. The only real difference I see is the potential to have sex for free, otherwise it's not much different. If you are practicing celibacy then that means no sexual activity at all, not just no relationships. That includes mastu...

Ceisiwr wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:58 pm

Ionbuddy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 8:29 pm By the way, how do prostitutes factor into this?

What do you mean?

Shouldn't it be obvious? A person can just pay for sex. The only real difference I see is the potential to have sex for free, otherwise it's not much different.

By the way, how do prostitutes factor into this?

I think the last paragraph makes a good point. There is a difference between being voluntary celibate and being an incel. I think someone could easily delude themselves into thinking they are practicing celibacy simply because they can’t get a partner and sex, when in fact it’s simply a case of not...

Yes it does induce aversion and restlessness, that's why it needs to be balanced with samatha like anapanasati, and metta which is wholesome vitakka and vicara. The point of these trainings is to develop the mind in all circumstances, like monks attaining jhanas off corpses in the charnel ground wh...

One way to deal with sensual desire is described here: Herein, monks, a monk reflects on just this body, confined within the skin and full of manifold impurities from the soles upward and from the top of the hair down: "There is in this body: hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, s...

One way to deal with sensual desire is described here: Herein, monks, a monk reflects on just this body, confined within the skin and full of manifold impurities from the soles upward and from the top of the hair down: "There is in this body: hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, sk...

It's also important to point out that because of the cosmology presented by the Buddha that everyone has been like that at one point in their rebirths, even the Buddha himself. But that's only if you accept the premise that rebirth happens. I suppose one way is to imagine you yourself were once that...

I don't understand why anyone would put doubt in their own mind without the intention of investigating or fixing what causes doubt. I can see how having doubt just for its own sake could be a hindrance, but it doesn't even make any sense to have doubt in that case. That just seems like it would be i...

How absurd to list those things together as if they are related. You don't meditate, do you? Regardless, I think it's time for me to leave this site; I'm tired of the censorship. May you all be well, happy and peaceful! :anjali: :anjali: :anjali: ‘There is a creator...’ will not lead to someone thi...

you can let them stay lol why do ppl keep saying things that are possible are impossible unpleasant, not preferred, whatever, but not impossible These types of creatures living in proximity to humans can possibly lead to diseases. How else would malaria have developed? Don't give microbiotic life t...

If by misogynistic you mean that he believed men were better than women, then he clearly isn't because he outright banned impotent and castrated men from becoming bhikkhus. Does that sound like a male supremacist to you? Even if you argue he didn't see them as "real" men, whatever that mea...

Also, I have no sympathy for those who become a monk and then complain about it, whether male or female. No one forced them to become a monk, and they could have also practiced as a lay person. Becoming a monk and then trying to change the sangha, is how the dhamma became corrupted in the first pla...

My goodness. You have managed to include not only a antisemitic dog whistle (Cultural marxism) you have also managed to downplay the role that women have played in the propagation of the dhamma. I really think that you should be banned just for that anti semitism dog whistle . I did not come to thi...

This seems to be a case of applying modern paradigms to ancient doctrine. Women were not "oppressed" until at least the Enlightenment era (and by that I mean that for most of human history, the thought of women being oppressed was inconceivable because of the paradigms in effect. If that ...