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Marriage and porn
Some socially 'Islamic' people (as distinct from Muslim practitioners) get married on a Friday and divorce on the Monday just so they can have sex on the weekend & not break the rules. Obviously, ...
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Sexual Coersion within a Sangha
There is no way around it. Sexual coercion and abuses (minor or otherwise) are reprehensible and they should be addressed.
For you to have compassion is wholesome, but it should not prevent you from ...
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Is this sexual misconduct?
The Noble Eightfold path comprises three practices: wisdom, ethics and immersion. It takes wisdom to ask about ethics. A good source of ethics is MN8. In particular, some of the following ...
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Husband has sexual activity with other woman with the consent of wife
It does not break the third precept if the husband has the wife's willful(not forced) consent. It's somewhat similar to kings having more than one queen.
Having said that, there is no such thing as ...
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Sexual misconduct, what is it
Sexual misconduct is defined in the Pali scriptures as having sex with someone else's partner or fiancee and with those living under the protection of their parents or an institution (in the case ...
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Buddhism and fornication
There are four conditions for wrong conduct in sexual pleasures.
There must be a man or woman with whom it is improper to
have sexual intercourse.
There must be intention to have sexual intercourse ...
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Does Buddhism have an answer to disturbing sexual fantasies?
Ways of Denourishing of Sensual Desire.
Asubha reflextion, refextion on the ugly of the body behind skin, hair, nails, reflecting the backwards of sensuality.
Watching the dogs on the street...
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What is meant by unchastity is the taint in a woman?
IMO "woman's stain" is a mistranslation (or at best gives the wrong impression).
The whole chapter (of the Dhammapada) is about ways in which the audience (e.g. you or me) may be stained (or ...
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The Noble Eightfold Path for monks and for lay disciples?
OP: Does it imply that lay followers still engaging in the sexual act while monks giving it up are both following the Noble eightfold
path ? Or would there be yet a reason for such a distinction in
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Sexual Misconduct involving Breast (Women)?
-- Officer, I was only going a little over the speed limit
To understand misconduct, we need to understand the reason for the rules we adopt. The rules are guides on our journey to letting go of ...
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What is meant by unchastity is the taint in a woman?
I realize that this text is translated, therefore, this may not be an accurate comment, but I respectfully suggest that in the text the woman is passive to the misconduct (receives it), but in the ...
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Would the Buddha have considered engaging in anal sex as breaking the 1st and/or 5th precept?
Obviously, anal sex performed by a husband on a wife would not break the literal teaching found in the 3rd precept. However, its often voyeuristic nature tends to place it within the sphere of mere ...
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Does Buddhism have an answer to disturbing sexual fantasies?
Buddhism only teaches about suffering & freedom from suffering (MN 22). Buddhism teaches: "There is no fire like lust" (Dhp 202), which is a natural law.
One excited by lust, overcome ...
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Is camsex a sin
The five precepts define ways that do not harm others. Forms of unconventional sex with a permissible (non-prohibited) partner do not fall under the 3rd precept. However, they may be unwholesome & ...
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Marriage and porn
Donating porn/nude arts, women to men for evil purposes, bulls for cows to breed, alcohol and arranging dances(probably sexually arousing) are considered evil charity which are sinful. So clearly porn ...
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Oral sex and semen swallowing
Sperm are not considered 'sentient beings' (Mahayana) or 'breathing beings' (Theravada). Therefore, the ejaculation of sperm is not killing in relation to the 1st Buddhist precept.
While it is not a ...
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Intentional or unintentional sexual thoughts
Random thoughts (like random sexual thoughts) don't collect much bad karma. Intentional and deliberate thoughts generate karma. Habitual intentional thoughts accumulate karma.
Now, you are feeling ...
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Sexual Misconduct involving Breast (Women)?
In the Pali canon, sensual (or sexual) misconduct as one of the five precepts is defined as:
He misconducts himself in sensual pleasures; he has intercourse with
women who are protected by their ...
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How did Buddha deal with people that were sexually attracted to him?
I recall there is a story (which is probably not from the Pali suttas but from a commentary) where a woman was in love with the Buddha so the Buddha used psychic power to make his appearance age ...
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Did the Buddha talk about karma and sexual misconduct independent of the lay precepts
Ask yourself if the misconduct will bring about less suffering for any being.
Bring yourself to be honest with the person you wronged, take on their burdens.
Only once the suffering is forgiven will ...
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Does Buddhism have an answer to disturbing sexual fantasies?
Patikulamanasikara is the meditation recommended to the person defeated by lust.
Whenever you see people or think about people(including yourself), meditate on them in terms of those body parts until ...
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Is camsex a sin
There is no "sin" in Buddhism. Every act is evaluated on the basis of whether it leads to Peace or to Trouble, and in what degree. Any activity that feeds and cultivates Lust leads to Trouble, in a ...
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Establishing a shrine in the bedroom?
First, you should keep in mind that rules are different for those on the monastic path than those who are lay practitioners. Monastics are not supposed to engage in any sexual activity (in most orders)...
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Oral sex and semen swallowing
Western culture contradicts alot with respect to traditional eastern culture. At the time of Lord Buddha, celibacy was practiced with couples until marriage (it is still practiced in the present ...
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Intentional or unintentional sexual thoughts
Is sexual thought about holy figures unforgivable sin?
No. But it takes you on a wrong path. A path which you must avoid for your own sake.
Am I creating bad karma by thinking about it over and over ...
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Is this considered sexual misconduct?
No. Unskillful bodily action, which encompasses sexual misconduct as it pertains to the five precepts of the laity, was defined by the Buddha thusly:
He engages in sexual misconduct. He gets sexually ...
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About the Upasakasila Sutta and LGBT
The quote appears to be from a Mahayana (Chinese) Sutra:
Sūtra of the Upāsaka Precepts
Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the Northern Liang Dynasty
by
The Tripiṭaka Master Dharmakṣema from ...
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About the Upasakasila Sutta and LGBT
No, that is not in Theravada Buddhism.
The 3rd precept deny only for breaking an agreement between people. In commentary allows even if the people can do an agreement together.
For the example, in the ...
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