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**Freedjome** · 06-04-2010, 05:47 PM

Lust and urgency of sex vanishes by itself once mindfullness, dispasion and stilness of mind has been developed.

So you are saying the suffering aspect of sexuality comes from an imbalance of this energy? And when people are in a state of imbalance with their sexuality it is experienced more as lust, or the urgency to get the need met ... which, from our previous discussion points, can only also occur from an original imbalance of thought focus on this part of one's being?

"To the same degree." This is impossible,

I am questioning this out of a interest in learning from you and exploring this further - with all respect to the Sutta - can we truly know it is impossible? If we believe the people who say it is, of course it is. However can we also see that this is an opinion and that opinion, although we choose to believe and see it is the truth of the path the Sutta describes, it is also born of ignorance regarding achieving this state on a different path? Only someone on that different path can comment on the truth and outcomes of that different path; or people who have travelled both paths?

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Freedjome Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	Lust and urgency of sex vanishes by itself once mindfullness, dispasion and stilness of mind has been developed. So you are saying the suffering aspect of sexuality comes from an imbalance of this energy? And when people are in a state of imbalance with their sexuality it is experienced more as lust, or the urgency to get the need met ... which, from our previous discussion points, can only also occur from an original imbalance of thought focus on this part of one's being? "To the same degree." This is impossible, I am questioning this out of a interest in learning from you and exploring this further - with all respect to the Sutta - can we truly know it is impossible? If we believe the people who say it is, of course it is. However can we also see that this is an opinion and that opinion, although we choose to believe and see it is the truth of the path the Sutta describes, it is also born of ignorance regarding achieving this state on a different path? Only someone on that different path can comment on the truth and outcomes of that different path; or people who have travelled both paths?
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