Hi Saoshun, I appreciate your views, and yes, it is probably healthy, but... there are virgins who have survived! I personally know a heterosexual guy my age (28) who is a virgin, and I have heard of others too -- and no, they are not "weird". I read in a book that Ajahn Chah was a virgin...

Hey DW, i have to admit here, i was a bully in school... im 33 now and what seemed to me as a laugh was in hindsight cruel and nasty towards one guy in particular he had a claffed pallet and i used to laugh at him a lot do daft things like pull his tie out of his jumper... to me this was purely a l...

Sex is all right if you have good connection with partner and know right with to do with them. Very healthy and needed for human existence as food and other natural mechanisms. There is no such thing as vulgar sex, your mind can be in relation to objects but there is no vulgar objects beside your m...

What do you think of this mindfulness meditation teacher certification program by Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach? http://www.soundstrue.com/store/ati-teacher-training At $6000 plus $200-$300 and up per night lodging? -- Spirit Rock, Kornfield and Co. - truly "the Upper-Middle Way". (If o...

SamKR wrote:What do you think of this mindfulness meditation teacher certification program by Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach?

http://www.soundstrue.com/store/ati-teacher-training

I remember a thread about Dr. Jack endorsing drug use since then well I have dropped out.

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:goodpost: If there is no one having sex, won't we be born in the animal realm and thereby miss the opportunity to become humans and become awakened to ultimately bring about the end of birth? But imagine we all become awakened and then there are no more rebirths and the cities lay empty and abandon...

If there is no one having sex, won't we be born in the animal realm and thereby miss the opportunity to become humans and become awakened to ultimately bring about the end of birth? But imagine we all become awakened and then there are no more rebirths and the cities lay empty and abandoned the tvs...

Dear Friends I recentlly attended a dhamma talk that included the answering of the question of whats Buddhists opinion on abortion, and there we were strolling on the typical thought roads, a lady confessed to an abortion and so on, but nobody mentioned the rather important point that abortions com...

... Yes bro. I agree that breathing correctly is the way to reach it. Stopping is a sign. In fact deliberately trying to hold the breath is pointed out by the Buddha as a wrong method. My point is that there is no stopping if you follow this sutta in your practice. Smile Dhammarelax If the practice...

One can eat dispassionately, one cannot have dispassionate sex (not to be confused with boring sex). That is to say that taking food for sustenance has craving as a parasite, whereas with sex it is the integral cog in the machine. I have the same opinion. I feel that abortion is totally against the...

What is vulgar about sexual intercourse between consenting adults (lay-people/householders) in their privacy while not affecting/harming others? Does Theravada considers even such sexual intercourse vulgar? BBs translation MN 51 "Abandoning incelibacy, he observes celibacy, living apart, absta...

SamKR wrote:dhammarelax,

What do you mean by "vulgar practice of sexual intercourse"?

Sex.

Dear Friends

More of the teachings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEwW15i ... U5&index=2

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Dhammarelax

form wrote:
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Yes bro. I agree that breathing correctly is the way to reach it. Stopping is a sign. In fact deliberately trying to hold the breath is pointed out by the Buddha as a wrong method.

My point is that there is no stopping if you follow this sutta in your practice.

Smile
Dhammarelax

Dear Friends I recentlly attended a dhamma talk that included the answering of the question of whats Buddhists opinion on abortion, and there we were strolling on the typical thought roads, a lady confessed to an abortion and so on, but nobody mentioned the rather important point that abortions come...