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Re: Sexuality and Desire in Buddhist teaching

"Sex is good,
Sex is fine,
Doggy style and sixty-nine."

Horny-o (791-853)

But too much sex can make anyone go wild. Be careful with these strong treats!

Kotishka

Re: Sexuality and Desire in Buddhist teaching

The boulevards lining the path toward suffering's cessation appear to be mired with the pilgrims who have met their match when trying to address sexuality and desire in their own practices.
Trying to discern the differences between a biological urge and our common identities conscription of it, is a challenge that eventually trips up as many meditation adepts as beginners.

For most, it's a 3 steps forward, two steps back, kind of progression.

The most common experience of finding oneself face-planting about it, again, on such a path occurs whenever one's preceding thoughts have been that they've finally got a handle on it.

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Re: Word Association Game

Again?

Lionduck

Re: Is the middle way comfortable?

@Kotishka said:
I think the closest answer I can share is one of an astronaut being propelled up into space. And the song "Momentum" by Origin.

At moments at peace,
others at awe, with thw sweaty chance of sudden death dribbling through your mind....
And then hungry.

I sit. And it is hard. I have so many things to do. But I sit, because when you sit for sometime, then you really begin to finally slow down l.

I couldn't find Momentum but I listened to Chaosmos and have to say that was about my experience today installing a ceiling fan. Mindfulness out the window. I said some bad words. It was a total defeat even if the fan's up and running.

There's a scene in Metalocolypse, I think season 1 episode 2 at the end which comes to mind as how I envision your description. A lot like my afternoon today. I hope your day affords you the relief your comment brought mine.