Sex and Suffering in Buddhism

(Buddha's Wisdom) Sex in Buddhism: Not a moral rule, but a deeper question

• Dukkha: suffering, disappointment, unsatisfactoriness, ill
• Vimuttimagga: The Path to Freedom
• Visuddhimagga: The Path of Purification

"Sex positive" Buddhists?

How can Wisdom Quarterly publish this? - How? It's a sex positive site. - O, makes sense

"If people start thinking freely about sex...they [might] start thinking freely about everything!"

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SlutWalk, Washington DC, USA 2012

The sex-positive movement is a social and philosophical movement that seeks to change cultural attitudes and norms around sexuality, promoting the recognition of sexuality (in the countless forms of expression) as a natural and healthy part of the human experience and emphasizing the importance of personal sovereignty, safer sex practices, and consensual sex (and sex work free of violence or coercion).

I'm straight. Don't want sex? Become a monk.

It is based on the idea that "sexuality is an important part of the human experience and it deserves respect" [1]. Although the definition of the term greatly varies among those involved in the movement, its central notion is "openness to a variety of sexual orientations, interests (or lack thereof), identities and expressions" [2].

(Elephants in the Rooms - Ken LeCorte) Why is prostitution really illegal?

I regret all that science and math. I really wanted to be a Hedonist with Jeffrey Epstein & Co!

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The sex-positive movement also advocates for comprehensive sex education and safe sex as part of its campaign.[3] The movement generally makes no moral distinctions among types of sexual activities, regarding these choices as matters of personal preference [4]. More

 

Rich, beautiful celebrities still have to date?

(Daddy Pacino) Celebrities flirting wildly like nobody's watching: Is everyone awkward?

Suffering Sandpapery Sex? Three Secrets to Juicier Lovemaking

What makes someone sexually attractive?

(AARP) We’ve all been there before: We’re about to get it on and — *album scratch* — our girl isn’t giving what she’s supposed to. Knowhatimsayin? Like that filthy/racy Cardi B song featuring Megan Thee Stallion. What’s up with my natural lube being a no-show? Why is this happening?

Will my customers still like me when I'm old?

Vaginal dryness is more common during perimenopause and after menopause. “As the reproductive portion of a woman’s life starts to come to a close, estrogen [female hormone] levels drop because it’s not necessary for you to make eggs anymore,” says Dr. Nicole E. Williams, M.D., founder of the Gynecology Institute of Chicago and author of This is How You Vagina: All About Your Vajayjay and Why You Probably Shouldn't Call It That.

Ziggy Jones: "Sex, Sand, Summer" (music video)

This is How You Vagina (Dr. Williams, MD)

Estrogen helps keep the vagina well lubricated and aids in sexual intercourse, she says. So declining estrogen levels can mean vaginal dryness that causes rough discomfort or sandy pain during sex. Some women also experience a chafed or burning feeling during day-to-day activities.

Menopause isn’t the only reason for vaginal dryness. Some other causes are medications, including antidepressants, antihistamines, and hormonal birth control pills; childbirth or breastfeeding; vaginal infections; stress. Whatever the circumstances, we’re not stuck with sandpaper-like sex. Here’s how to add more slip and slide to the ride. More: sisters.aarp.org

• COYOTE, BAYSWAN
• Family Guy; Buddha's Wisdom (video); Tamekia Reece (Sisters Newsletter from AARP, 11/4/22); Daddy Pacino; Ziggy Jones (song); Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Matrix: Inception's hidden Buddhism: prison

Hollywood writers on dreaming

(Buddha's Wisdom) Inception's hidden Buddhism: The real prison was never the "dream" (maya).

Inception is an American science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas.

The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of targets.

To whom are we still hopelessly attached?

He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

The ensemble cast includes Ellen Page [now living as Elliot Page], Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine. More

• Upādāna: "clinging"
• Maya: the dreaming, the illusion
• Nirvana: release, liberation, freedom, emancipation
• Śūnyatā: emptiness, impersonal, without self
• Mara (demon): the Tempter, Mel, the seduction
• Hungry ghost: the realm of hopeless clinging
• Bardo: limbo, the intermediate state between rebirths
• Let Go: stop being so clingy, detach, be free
• Avidyā (Buddhism): ignorance that keeps us trapped

Buddhism in The Matrix

(Buddha's Wisdom) Buddhism in The Matrix | Red Pill isn't bodhi

(Matrix Explained) The Architect told Neo the truth, nobody noticed

That's the guy from Little Buddha

Buddhism in The Matrix goes deeper than most of us think (other than Wachowski Brothers). The Wachowskis built this film on Buddhist philosophy—but Neo (Keanu Reeves, who played the Buddha in Little Buddha) goes on a journey that reveals something most viewers miss: Taking the red pill isn't enlightenment, it's just the beginning. This video explores what The Matrix gets RIGHT about Buddhism, what Neo gets WRONG about awakening, and why the ending is actually the most Buddhist part of the entire trilogy. More (See The Matrix Trilogy)

HOW do we get out of this prison?

We are trapped in a prison of our own making. Realizing it does NOT free us. Letting go does. But how can we let go? We can't. It isn't an act of willpower. It's by seeing things as they are. Okay, okay, that makes sense! How are they? This is not a belief-system to believe. We must go in and see kalapas and cittas, particles and mind-moments, which means we must first cultivate samadhi (stillness, absorption) to purify and intensify the instrument of seeing (the mind). Then when we really know-and-see what is there, letting go happens by itself free of effort. The mind/heart lets go when it sees all things are marked by Three Universal Characteristics.

How to love like smart Machiavelli loved

(The Unknown Void) Early human mating was more savage than thought. [Still this way today?] 

Incels are not real. (Does she have a point?)  - War continues: who uses more of brain? 🤯

No, not like this, Bozo! (Mr. Wolverine) - Wolverine more macho than Batman kissing?

• Incels (the involuntarily celibate)
• Who was Niccolò Machiavelli?

Devolution by funny punk rock

(Mishtah) The Firemen "Jocko Bozo"

Niccolo, does she love me? I need to know!

(Psyphoria Echo) 7 hidden signs a woman wants you: she'll never say it | Machiavelli

(Stoic Universe) The Machiavellian rules of attraction: 7 signs she wants you but hides it

• VIDEO: Machiavelli’s advice for Nice Guys
• Machiavelli's understanding of sexual desire
• Machiavelli's advice on picking up girls