(science) on celibacy

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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.

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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.
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Injrabodi wrote: Sun Nov 20, 2022 11:05 pm
I have to say it's very odd to encounter a Buddhist arguing against celibacy given the fact that the Buddha was celibate and there's a very wide plethora of Buddhist texts from all traditions advocating 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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Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:31 pm 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)
Five times a day!
…what are they putting in
that yak butter tea?
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PadmaVonSamba wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:44 am
Malcolm wrote: Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:31 pm 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)
Five times a day!
…what are they putting in
that yak butter tea?
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.

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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