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**plalleste** · 04-03-2012, 04:42 AM

I am also shocked that certain Buddhist "authorities" feel it is their place to remark on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of private sexual matters between laypeople who are consenting adults in a mutually caring relationship. I was just reading this earlier today:

Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism in the Thai Buddhist Tradition by Peter A. Jackson

Excerpted from the book "QUEER DHARMA: VOICES OF GAY BUDDHISTS" edited by Winston Leyland, ISBN: 0940567229

Phra Buddhadasa says that in the past people were "employed" or "engaged" (Thai: jang) by nature in the "work" (Thai: ngan) of reproducing the species, but people now "cheat" nature by using contraception and having sex without being engaged in the work of reproduction. He maintains that this "cheating," i.e. engaging in sex for pleasure rather than reproduction, is "paid back" because it causes problems such as nervous disorders, madness and physical deformities (ibid. :25).

Phra Buddhadasa calls on laypeople to be mindful and establish spiritually informed intelligence (Pali: sati-panna) and to have sex only for reproduction.

http://www.enabling.org/ia/vipassana...haJackson.html Here, Buddhadasa makes statements akin to those made by the Dalai Lama, asserting that sex is for reproduction only. According to him, using contraception and having sex without being engaged in the work of reproduction causes nervous disorders, madness and physical deformities. It naturally follows that homosexual practices are impermissible as well. This is absurd to me.

04-03-2012, 04:42 AM	#34
plalleste Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 579 Senior Member	I am also shocked that certain Buddhist "authorities" feel it is their place to remark on the appropriateness or inappropriateness of private sexual matters between laypeople who are consenting adults in a mutually caring relationship. I was just reading this earlier today: Male Homosexuality and Transgenderism in the Thai Buddhist Tradition by Peter A. Jackson Excerpted from the book "QUEER DHARMA: VOICES OF GAY BUDDHISTS" edited by Winston Leyland, ISBN: 0940567229 Phra Buddhadasa says that in the past people were "employed" or "engaged" (Thai: jang) by nature in the "work" (Thai: ngan) of reproducing the species, but people now "cheat" nature by using contraception and having sex without being engaged in the work of reproduction. He maintains that this "cheating," i.e. engaging in sex for pleasure rather than reproduction, is "paid back" because it causes problems such as nervous disorders, madness and physical deformities (ibid. :25). Phra Buddhadasa calls on laypeople to be mindful and establish spiritually informed intelligence (Pali: sati-panna) and to have sex only for reproduction. http://www.enabling.org/ia/vipassana...haJackson.html Here, Buddhadasa makes statements akin to those made by the Dalai Lama, asserting that sex is for reproduction only. According to him, using contraception and having sex without being engaged in the work of reproduction causes nervous disorders, madness and physical deformities. It naturally follows that homosexual practices are impermissible as well. This is absurd to me.
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