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What do Buddhists do to prevent sexual desires?
Yes, they do something to lower sexual desire. Sexual desire is a form of sensual desire which is the first of the 5 Hindrances to meditation practice. The commentaries to the Satipatthana Sutta list ...
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Taking care of our sexual energy
The "five mindfulness trainings" obviously correspond to the traditional "five precepts".
So you can find more (by other authors) on that subject by searching for "third precept", for example ...
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Sexual Desire, Masturbating and Asuba Bawana
So basically caught up in the social norms, i used to watch porn videos and masturbate and got a bit attached to it. Kept on doing it
for a few years.
Do not underestimate the harm & addictive ...
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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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Dealing with Lust
The YouTube video "Ask A Monk: Pornography and Masturbation (and Addiction in General)" by Ven. Yuttadhammo may be helpful to you.
He discusses "interior causes for such lust" from the perspective of ...
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Is masturbation a sin when we do it to avoid intercourse with other people?
First off, Buddhism and karmic faiths generally don't really have a concept of 'sin'. 'Sin' is a Western conception — a feature of Abrahamic (Jewish, Christian, Muslim) faiths — that points at ...
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Dealing with Lust
I know Buddhism posits that lust depends on the sense organs, and contact with an object. Thus, I've read it promotes decreasing this
contact and guarding the senses.
No. Lust depends on ignorance. ...
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What makes someone take rebirth with non heterosexual inclinations?
I think the question is unimportant because Buddhism does not provide an answer for this question & because in Buddhism there is a path for laypeople that can be practised by both heterosexual &...
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Sex Before Marriage
So we had a friends-with-benefits relationship just to have sexual
satisfaction with no feelings.
If sex did not feel pleasurable; why would you have sex? There is no such thing as sex with no ...
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What is the attitude toward homosexuality in Buddhism?
In respect to the cultural context of the Pali suttas, I have only read references to: (i) parents arranging the marriage of their (pubescent) children (DN 31) &; (ii) sex in marriage between ...
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Question on sexual immorality and a family situation
It is not officially a breach of the 3rd precept, which, per definition, relates to actual sexual activity with specifically defined people (such as another person's husband or wife or children/...
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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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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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Why is lust considered as being unskillful?
On the mundane level, all the other answers are okay. On the supramundane level, it's not as much about partaking of sex as it is about your attitude, the implications of the relationship, the ...
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Can a girl & a boy be friends
If you are not married, the Buddha said to look at opposite sex friends like brother & sister:
'Come now, monks: with regard to women who are old enough to be your
mother, establish the ...
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Sexual disinterest
Meditation can make the mind more sensitive to coarse/unrefined things however becoming accustomed to refined experiences of love or intimacy can also result in loveless sex feeling pointless & ...
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Orgasm and Virya
Unless relatively deep/refined samadhi & tranquility have been developed, it is difficult to perceive the loss of energy & loss of mental clarity due to orgasm. Instead, to the undeveloped ...
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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 makes someone take rebirth with non heterosexual inclinations?
My first teacher taught how different types of attachments lead to certain karmic situations. According to that system, homosexuality comes from attachment to high ideals and high standards.
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Sexual Ethics in Buddhism
Why is lust seen as being unskillful?
Your question goes directly to MN1, which is a difficult sutta:
relishing is the root of suffering.
Briefly, the delusion of lust assumes that one can ...
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Buddha's view on sexuality
There are two levels of Teaching, for the common people, and for professional seekers of Nirvana.
To first, Buddha taught no-nonsense ethics, chastity etc. Sex for procreation, faithful marriage, ...
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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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Feeling scared/ having aversion to looking at "pretty" women
Ajahn Chan, the famous monk of the forest tradition, once did a practice to avoid looking at any woman. When the practice ended and he took a look at the first woman; he described it as deeply ...
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What do Buddhists do to prevent sexual desires?
Ways to prevent sexual desire are described in the Bharadvaja Sutta.
Here, the best method for developing the "lifelong chaste life, perfect & pure, and make it last entire lives" is advised to ...
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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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What is the attitude toward homosexuality in Buddhism?
"miccha dhamma" is never about homosexuality, as the comment of the Cakkavattisuttaṃ (DN 26) is wrong.
The word "miccha dhamma" and other two words are also appear in the Palokasuttaṃ (AN.3.56), and ...
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