Science is developing endlessly - this is it's nature. Nothing is fix.
If you choose to believe in science only, you have to change directions every now and then. No problem, but that's no substitute for dharma.
Dharma is not only-ancient-rules. Rather it's kind of everything.
(science) on celibacy
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If sexuality is integrated in the spiritual path, it can becomes dharma.
Celibacy is a condition. It is not virtuous by itself. It needs a mastery of energy to let it becomes a cause for something good.
Celibacy is a condition. It is not virtuous by itself. It needs a mastery of energy to let it becomes a cause for something good.
Re: (science) on celibacy
Buddha did not advocate celibacy for upasakas, ever.
The Buddha was very sexually active according every account until he was 29 or so. Then he left home. But he never expected all his followers to become renunciants. If they did, who would support the renunciant Sangha?
In any case, according to Ayurveda and Tibetan Medicine, there are times of the year when men can engage in more or less unrestricted sexual activity with their proper partners (five times a day in winter) and times of the year when they should refrain from sexual activity beyond twice a month (summer) and ratios in between (spring and fall). The reason why is that sukra is a waste product (kita) left over from the final refinement of the pure portion our food (rasa) into ojas. In the summer one is likely to lose this ojas with sukra because in the summer we tend to eat less nutritionally dense food.
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Five times a day!
…what are they putting in
that yak butter tea?
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Re: (science) on celibacy
The ironic thing is that generally people have more energy in the warmer months too, which I suppose fits with the concern about energy depletion.PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:44 amFive times a day!
…what are they putting in
that yak butter tea?
That was my thought too though lol “not since my late twenties”…
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Celibacy is for monks and nuns, not for lay practitioners. That’s why it’s called “lay” practitioners, because it’s okay to get laid.
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