[LongaDonga]

To me, a tranquil mind and emotional satisfaction can only be obtained in a natural way. That is all human natural needs should be satisfied in a natural way.

The Eightfold Path is a natural way. Nibbana is something natural.

For example, when we get angry, do we always follow our anger and get angry or even murder the people we are angry at? No. Instead, most of the time, we wait for the anger to calm down. This waiting for the anger to calm down & dissolve is a natural way.

So why should the defilement of sexual craving be treated differently to the defilement of anger?

The Buddha taught patient endurance is the supreme incinerator of defilements & this is the path to Nirvana.

Khantī paramaṃ tapo titikkhā, nibbānaṃ paramaṃ vadanti buddhā If we are open minded, the Noble Eightfold Path is a natural way we can try or experiment with, if we are interested.

If we have not tried it, how can we criticise it?

If we have not tasted the bliss & freedom of the dissolution of sexual craving, how can we narrow mindedly criticise it?

Sex, most of us have tried. Sex is something common & ordinary.

The Buddha taught (somewhere) the pleasure of sex is 1/16 of the pleasure of jhana or Nibbana (whichever).

Kind regards