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**Info-phone** · 01-05-2012, 01:27 AM

My dear Kaarine Alejandra,

I am not talking exessive eating, I am talking bout natural instincts. If we do not eat we die for sure, ıf we do not use our sexual intercourse, our human race will be ended for sure. Sex is where we come from. No one has such a large cover to close over this truth yet...

Respectfully,

Hello Bothi,

Buddha never taught that everybody should abandon sexual intercourse. Also Buddha never intended to impose his teachings to those who do not want to follow them. The commitment with the Buddha teachings is a very personal and intimate choice.

Buddha also encouraged lay practitioners, that are into raising a family, to develop one founded in love commitment.

The commentary of Nyanaponika Thera is quite clear about it:

Of his lay followers he did not expect sexual abstinence. To them he advised restraint and mindfulness, and avoidance of giving excessive nourishment to sex desire. Here, if anywhere, a middle path between unrestrained indulgence and enforced repression was apt. But the Buddha made it clear that full deliverance required full detachment from desire. The gradual progress towards it, however, was left to the degree of insight and self-control possessed and developed by the individual lay follower.

MN 22
The decision of celibacy is personal and it should be taken as a result of the higher happiness one experience from meditation, from an ease mind that is in an absolute absence of craving. In this way, also a lay practitioners can practice sexual abstention if they will. Not only monks.

01-05-2012, 01:27 AM	#22
Info-phone Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 465 Senior Member	My dear Kaarine Alejandra, I am not talking exessive eating, I am talking bout natural instincts. If we do not eat we die for sure, ıf we do not use our sexual intercourse, our human race will be ended for sure. Sex is where we come from. No one has such a large cover to close over this truth yet... Respectfully, Hello Bothi, Buddha never taught that everybody should abandon sexual intercourse. Also Buddha never intended to impose his teachings to those who do not want to follow them. The commitment with the Buddha teachings is a very personal and intimate choice. Buddha also encouraged lay practitioners, that are into raising a family, to develop one founded in love commitment. The commentary of Nyanaponika Thera is quite clear about it: Of his lay followers he did not expect sexual abstinence. To them he advised restraint and mindfulness, and avoidance of giving excessive nourishment to sex desire. Here, if anywhere, a middle path between unrestrained indulgence and enforced repression was apt. But the Buddha made it clear that full deliverance required full detachment from desire. The gradual progress towards it, however, was left to the degree of insight and self-control possessed and developed by the individual lay follower. MN 22 The decision of celibacy is personal and it should be taken as a result of the higher happiness one experience from meditation, from an ease mind that is in an absolute absence of craving. In this way, also a lay practitioners can practice sexual abstention if they will. Not only monks.
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