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Realisation: Why Was There Tension 'When Harry Met Sally'?
What you are bonded to you are bonded by. What you are free from you are free of. - Stonepeace
The Buddha taught that there is no form as attractive to a man as that of a woman. Likewise, there is no form as attractive to a woman as that of a man. If you were mindful, you would notice that to each, there is nothing else that can please all the senses simultaneously more than each other – especially in the sensual 'melting pot' of sexual activity. (This explains the great lure of sex.) The complementary desires are such that man and woman seem ‘made’ for satisfying each other. This illusion is so strong that some believe man and woman were originally 'one', but separated into 'halves', such that they seek to 'reunite' physically.
However, elsewhere (Sannoga Sutta), the Buddha taught that because a woman/man attends inwardly to her/his feminine/masculine faculties, gestures, desires and charms, she/he is excited by them, while attending outwardly to masculine/feminine faculties, gestures, desires and charms. She/he is thus bonded to that outside her/him, craving pleasure based on that bond. Caught up in her/his femininity/masculinity, she/he does not transcend it. Conversely, there is no bondage when she/he transcends her/his femininity/masculinity, when she/he neither attends to nor is excited by the above attributes with reference to man/woman.
The above is also applicable to homosexuals and bisexuals because so long as there is any fixation on form(s) of sexuality, one is trapped by that very attachment, not liberated from the dissatisfaction sustained by craving. The Buddha is a perfect example of what we can 'evolve' to be – an enlightened one who is spiritually whole, who does not pine for anyone else to 'complete' one's being. This is possible because he does not hanker on any physical sexuality, seeing it as transient and unsubstantial. Spiritually, he has perfected the virtues generic of both genders, rendering 'him' a balanced being beyond any gender limitations. - Shen Shi'an
That truly worthy are not transient forms but the lasting virtues exemplifed through them. - Stonepeace
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What you are bonded to you are bonded by. What you are free from you are free of. - Stonepeace
The Buddha taught that there is no form as attractive to a man as that of a woman. Likewise, there is no form as attractive to a woman as that of a man. If you were mindful, you would notice that to each, there is nothing else that can please all the senses simultaneously more than each other – especially in the sensual 'melting pot' of sexual activity. (This explains the great lure of sex.) The complementary desires are such that man and woman seem ‘made’ for satisfying each other. This illusion is so strong that some believe man and woman were originally 'one', but separated into 'halves', such that they seek to 'reunite' physically.
However, elsewhere (Sannoga Sutta), the Buddha taught that because a woman/man attends inwardly to her/his feminine/masculine faculties, gestures, desires and charms, she/he is excited by them, while attending outwardly to masculine/feminine faculties, gestures, desires and charms. She/he is thus bonded to that outside her/him, craving pleasure based on that bond. Caught up in her/his femininity/masculinity, she/he does not transcend it. Conversely, there is no bondage when she/he transcends her/his femininity/masculinity, when she/he neither attends to nor is excited by the above attributes with reference to man/woman.
The above is also applicable to homosexuals and bisexuals because so long as there is any fixation on form(s) of sexuality, one is trapped by that very attachment, not liberated from the dissatisfaction sustained by craving. The Buddha is a perfect example of what we can 'evolve' to be – an enlightened one who is spiritually whole, who does not pine for anyone else to 'complete' one's being. This is possible because he does not hanker on any physical sexuality, seeing it as transient and unsubstantial. Spiritually, he has perfected the virtues generic of both genders, rendering 'him' a balanced being beyond any gender limitations. - Shen Shi'an
That truly worthy are not transient forms but the lasting virtues exemplifed through them. - Stonepeace
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Excerpt: Seek Your Lost Gem
Discovering your Buddha-nature is to uncover your wish-fulfilling jewel. - Stonepeace
Discovering your Buddha-nature is to uncover your wish-fulfilling jewel. - StonepeaceSuppose you were to lose your only child in a crowd or drop an invaluable gem: do you think you would just let the child or the jewel go at that, just because of the bustle and the mob? Would you not look for them even if you had a lot of work to do or were poor or sickly? Even if you had to plunge into an immense crowd of people and had to continue searching into the night, you would not be easy in your mind until you had found and retrieved your child or your jewel.
To have been born human and heard true teaching is a very rare opportunity; so to neglect meditation because of your career is to treat the life of wisdom of the body of truths of the Buddhas less seriously than worldly chattels. But if you search for wisdom singlemindedly like someone who has lost a child or dropped a gem, one day you will undoubtedly encounter it, whereupon you will light up with joy.
Minding Mind: A Course in Basic Meditation (Translated by Thomas Cleary)
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To have been born human and heard true teaching is a very rare opportunity; so to neglect meditation because of your career is to treat the life of wisdom of the body of truths of the Buddhas less seriously than worldly chattels. But if you search for wisdom singlemindedly like someone who has lost a child or dropped a gem, one day you will undoubtedly encounter it, whereupon you will light up with joy.
Minding Mind: A Course in Basic Meditation (Translated by Thomas Cleary)
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