Lust: The Power of Sex: I must have it!

(Bhakti Vikasa Swami) Power of Sex, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Hare Krishna ISKCON Hinduism)

(Asha Bhosle) Indian Hari Krishna film, Dum Maro Dum, smoking groovy ganja

Maybe mindless devotion to Krishna?

Hare Krishna kirtan bhajan - Hare Krishna chanting in Hindu America

(Joe Rogan) Ancient origins of Hare Krishna Movement?

Hare Krishna Hare Rama Mantra | Srila Prabhupada's world | ISKCON

Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra in Epstein Files

(Jigme Ugen) In defense of the Dalai Lama in Epstein Files and hypocrite Deepak Chopra

I had tough choices to make to save my empire.

You have something to say for yourself, Your "Holiness"? Is this why you said that if you are reborn as a female, you want to be a "hot one"? Ha ha, what a card. Anything you'd like to confess, Holy One? Is it true, as the investigative journalist Michael Wolff says, that you were at Jeffrey Epstein's New York apartment, and that you planned to visit his Pedophile Island, perhaps riding in the Lolita Express to get there with your armed guards, CIA handlers, Jewish friends, professional Zionist detachments, Hollywood bigwigs, accountants, and retinue? Or how is it? Any children you'd like to have suck your tongue again, my or our underage sons? Anything you'd like to say for yourself, the floor is yours -- and remember, you're on an international stage.

• RECENT REVELATION: "His Holiness" the Dalai Lama named (169 times) in the recent batch of released Epstein Files

Three of Top 100 names alongside Trumpand Israeli prime minister in the Epstein Files.

Thai monks have sex, get extorted (BBC)

Thai police have arrested a woman who allegedly had sexual relations with monks and then used photos and videos of the acts to extort money from them.

• Buddhist monks have vowed to give up sex while in robes (while ordained) and such a transgression is called a "defeat" offense or parajika, for which there is no remedy. They are disgraced and immediately excommunicated from the Monastic Sangha and can never become monks again in this lifetime. To continue pretending to be a monk is a drastic error -- incredibly bad karma, stealing from donors and shortening the life of the Order on Earth. Having been defeating may be embarrassing or nothing to be proud of, but so long as one immediately disrobes and confesses the offense, one simply returns to lay life. It is because one lingers on in robes, fails to confess, and receives the benefits of monkhood that makes it grave and heavy karma causing one trouble for a long, long time.

The woman, who police are calling "Ms. Golf," had sex with at least nine monks, police said at a press conference on Tuesday. They believe she received around 385 million baht ($11.9m or £8.8m) over the past three years.

Investigators who searched her house found more than 80,000 photos and videos used to blackmail the monks, the police spokesman said.

This scandal is the latest to rock Thailand's much revered Buddhist institution, which in recent years has been plagued with allegations of monks engaging in sex offences and drug trafficking. More:

Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos

Buddhist monks behaving badly (video)

Thailand's Tainted Robes | Bhikkhus behaving badly | Misbehaving Monks | 101 East

(Al Jazeera English, 12/18/14) As scandals involving misbehaving Buddhist monks (bhikkhus) rock the nation, 101 East examines if Thailand can save its moral soul and monastic institution.

Nehn Kham was once a hugely popular monk preaching in Thailand's poor northeast region. Today, he is an international fugitive with a $32 million dollar fortune that he amassed through fraud. Buddhists around the world were shocked when footage emerged of this monk on a private plane, clutching a Louis Vuitton bag and fidgeting with high-end gadgets.

His extravagance put him atop a long list of misbehaving monks making headlines in Thailand for fist fights, smuggling drugs, selling guns, hiding gay pornography, raping trafficked boys, and more.

In response, Thailand's military junta (dictatorship) has set up a 24-hour hotline for the public to report rule-breaking monks. But the junta is also proposing new laws to criminalize breaking any Buddhist rule (227 precepts) -- a move some fear is an over-reaction that would threaten religious freedom.

There are already in Buddhism since the time of the historical Buddha four acts that instantly make one not a monk. These are called "defeat" offenses or parajikas, and they mean one can never again become a monk in this lifetime:

• Sexual intercourse: engaging in any sexual penetration.
• Stealing: the taking of anything worth more than 1/24 troy ounce of gold (as determined by local law).
• Killing: bringing about the death of a human being — whether by killing the person, arranging for an assassin to kill the person, inciting the person to die, or describing the advantages of death [2].
• Lying: lying that one has attained any of the stages of enlightenment, such as claiming to be an stream enterer or arhat when one knows one is not, or claiming to have attained one of the meditative absorptions (jhānas) when one knows one has not.

101 East exclusively reveals where Thailand's infamous jet-setting monk has been hiding and meets those on a mission to save the country Buddhist treasure (Sangha).

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Sex and monks and nuns (Monastic Rules)

Dhr. Seven, Ananda (eds.), Ven. Ariyesako, Monks' Rules: Laypeople Guide, Wisdom Quarterly

They have sex! They're hypocrites, liars, deceiving the world for minimal gains. We knew it!

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(II) Relationships

It's hard not to stare when you're still only human.

Buddhist monastics cannot live in complete isolation from laypeople, for their mutually supportive relationship is intrinsic to the monastic way of life.

However, it should never become an intimate or sexual relationship, for that would go against the whole purpose of leaving behind the "family or household life" with its endless "closed in" complications [43],

The "supreme life" (brahmacariya) is one that checks the display of any form of erotic desire through the actions, speech, and thoughts of a monastic. In fact, restraint from gross sexual misconduct is already part of the Five Precepts. [See Note 4].

The Eight Precepts as well as the Ten Precepts immediately refine this then the Monastic Disciplinary Code (Vinaya) manages it with even greater subtlety. One's Dharma life can then advance toward the letting go of all craving through development of the heart/mind through meditation (cultivation).

The most potent object for strong sexual craving, which the mind/heart is pining for and grasping after, is usually associated with the other sex. Therefore, many rules involve this relationship [44].

Sexual intercourse

Transgender "monk" in Tibet

The first offense of the 227 listed major rules of the Rules Recitation (Patimokkha) concerns a monastic engaging in sexual intercourse.

It is a hot issue, perhaps more today than before, going by the number of sex scandals that rock the Buddhist world in the East and West. Ven. Thiradhammo writes:

"While some of the guidelines may seem somewhat rigid or prudish, it is important to reflect upon the volatility and durability of rumor, even if untrue. The incessant sex-scandals in religious circles may provide a sufficient incentive to encourage the greatest measure of prevention and discretion" (HS, Chp.13).

The rule of celibacy (chastity) was originally laid down because of rich Ven. Sudinna. He was the son of a rich merchant, who left home to become a wandering ascetic (Buddhist monastic) only after great opposition from his family. He went away to practice Dharma, and when he came back to visit, his parents were overjoyed to see him.

So they plotted to lure him back into the lay life again. They invited him for a meal then laid out their wealth in front of him, piled up in two huge heaps of gold, while the wife he had left behind dressed herself in her most irresistibly alluring way.

Ven. Sudinna remained unmoved by all of this. After telling them to throw the gold away in the river, he referred to his former wife as "sister."

Nevertheless, when his elderly mother pleaded with him at least to give them a grandson and heir, he foolishly gave in. He had sexual intercourse with his former wife.

This first defeat offense is summarized: "A monastic who engages in any form of sexual intercourse [penetration] is defeated" (Parajika 1, BMC, p. 45).

Every form and variety of sexual intercourse with sexual penetration — be it genital, oral, or anal, whether with a female, male, or animal — is forbidden. The penalty is the heaviest one of defeat (parajika).

Intimacy — touching

I can't believe that hypocrite touched me.

The modern West is full of stories of sexual harassment. The ways the Buddha dealt with such matters should therefore not seem very strange.

If a monastic touches a person in a sexual way, one commits a very serious offense requiring formal meetings of the Monastic Community (sangha) and probation (sangha-disesa).]

The scrupulous monastic wants to remain above suspicion so, if able, will avoid all physical contact.

Hence monk's and nun's attitude toward shaking hands is to avoid them. Or if one wishes to avoid offending, because it is a warm social custom, they are kept brief. This also explains why, at least in Thailand, a receiving cloth is used to receive offerings from females. (See EN 85).

Buddhist monks are not alone in this. Catholics.

The rule was first set down by the Buddha after a Brahmin and his wife had gone to inspect Ven. Udayin's fine dwelling. [See Udāyī (2).] As Ven. Udayin was showing them around, he came up behind the lady and "rubbed up against her limb by limb."

After they had left the husband praised Ven. Udayin, but the wife was critical and explained what had happened. The Brahmin then complained, "Isn't it even possible to take one's wife to a monastery without her being molested?" This rule was then set down:

"Should any monastic overcome by lust, with altered mind, engage in bodily contact with a woman, or in holding her hand, holding a lock of her hair, or caressing any of her limbs, it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Monastic Community" (Sanghadisesa 2, BMC, p. 100).

To be at fault the monastic must usually do some action to bring himself in contact with a female as lust overcomes his mind [45]. If he accidentally stumbles and bumps into a female, or vice-versa, or if he is accosted by one, as long as there is no intention to come into lustful contact with her, there is no offense.

However, the average monastic's mind tends to be so quick and unruly — for one is, after all, still in training and therefore not yet enlightened — that one may prefer to be super-cautious about such situations.

If a monastic touches his mother out of affection, this is still an offense but the lesser one of wrong-doing (dukkata) [46]. While gratitude to parents was strongly emphasized by the Buddha, the monastic having left the home-life and family should not cling to worldly relationships.

The only true way to fulfill one's filial obligations is by gaining insight into the Dharma and then teaching one's parents.

If a monastic is acting with lustful intentions, one incurs a grave (thullaccaya) offense for making bodily contact with a pandaka ("sex-aberrant") [homosexual, deviant, pervert, transgender, transsexual, prostitute, or eunuch] and an offense of wrong-doing for sexual contact with a male. (See BMC, p. 103).

The previous rules dealt with the monastic's physical actions. The next two rules are offenses — again of the very serious category — that concern his wrong speech towards females.

Flirting

Are you still a monk? - That was just temporary.

This rule came into being when many female visitors came together to look over Ven. Udayin's dwelling. He spoke to them in a lewd, flirtatious way so that some of them said, "It is improper. Even from our husbands we wouldn't like to hear this sort of thing." Therefore, the Buddha laid down this rule:

"Should any monastic, overcome by lust, with altered mind, address lewd words to a female in the manner of young men to a young woman alluding to sexual intercourse, it entails initial and subsequent meetings of the Monastic Community" (Sangh. 3, BMC, p. 110).

Propositioning

The following rule is very relevant today when some misguidedly believe that submitting to sex with spiritual teachers can help in their spiritual development.

Again, it was originally a lustful Ven. Udayin who was the cause of this offense. This time, he suggested to a beautiful and devout female follower that she make a "special offering" to him, that of sexual intercourse. The Buddha then set forth this rule:

"Telling a female that she would benefit from having sexual intercourse with oneself is [an offense requiring initial and subsequent meetings of the Monastic Community]." (Summary [47] Sangh. 4, BMC, p. 117). More

Sex with a nun? - "Seinfeld" (video)

Dhr. Seven, Eliza Darcey, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Bhikkhuni Sutra: "The Nun" (AN 4.159); Kramer, Seinfeld; Ven. Thanissaro/Geoffrey DeGraff (original trans.), accesstoinsight.org

Buddhist nuns have a strict monastic code.

Thus have I heard. On one occasion Venerable Ananda was staying in Kosambi, at Ghosita's Park.

Then a certain nun said to a man: "Go, my good man, to Ven. Ananda and, bowing your head to his feet in my name, say to him:

"'Venerable sir, the nun such-and-such is sick, in pain, severely ill. She bows her head to the feet of Ven. Ananda and says, "It would be good if Ven. Ananda were to go to the nuns' quarters to visit this nun out of sympathy for her."'"

Responding, "Yes, lady," the man did so. Ven. Ananda accepted in silence.

 

Then early in the morning, having dressed and taking his bowl and cloak, Ven. Ananda went to the nuns' quarters.

Trouble in bed? Head bowed under covers.

The nun saw Ven. Ananda coming from afar and, seeing him, she lay down on a bed, having covered her head.

 
Then Ven. Ananda approached the nun and sat down on a previously prepared seat. Sitting there, he said to the nun:

Ananda teaches
"This body, sister, comes into being through food, yet it is by relying on food that food is to be abandoned.
 
"This body comes into being through craving, yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.

"This body comes into being through conceit, yet it is by relying on conceit that conceit is to be abandoned.

"This body comes into being through sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is to be abandoned. With regard to sexual intercourse, the Buddha declares the cutting off of the bridge.

Explanation

Mistakes were made, Ven. Ananda.

"'This body, sister, comes into being through food, yet it is by relying on food that food is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, but in reference to what was it said?

"There is the case, sister, where a [Buddhist] monastic, considering it thoughtfully, consumes food -- not playfully, not for intoxication, not for putting on bulk, not for beautification -- but simply for the survival and the continuation of this body, for ending its afflictions, for the support of the monastic life [thinking,] 'In this way will I destroy old feelings [of hunger] and not create new feelings [of overeating]. I will maintain myself, be blameless, and live in comfort.'

"Then one eventually abandons food, having relied on food. 'This body, sister, comes into being through food, yet it is by relying on food that food is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, and in reference to this was it said.
 
"'This body comes into being through craving, yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, but in reference to what was it said?

Nirvana

"There is the case, sister, where a monastic hears, 'The monastic such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the defilements [and taints and fetters], has entered and abides in the defilement-free release-through-awareness and release-through-wisdom, having known and seen these things for oneself here and now.'

"The thought occurs to one, 'I hope that I, too, will -- through the cessation of the defilements -- enter and abide in the defilement-free release-through-awareness and release-through-wisdom, having known and seen these things for myself here and now.'

"Then one eventually abandons craving, having relied on craving. 'This body comes into being through craving. Yet it is by relying on craving that craving is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, and in reference to this was it said.

"'This body comes into being through conceit. Yet it is by relying on conceit that conceit is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, but in reference to what was it said?

"There is the case, sister, where a monastic hears, 'The monastic such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the defilements, has entered and abides in the defilement-free release-through-awareness and release-through-wisdom, having known and realized these things for oneself here and now.'

"The thought occurs, 'The monastic such-and-such, they say, through the ending of the defilements, has entered and abides in the defilement-free release-through-awareness and release-through-wisdom, having known and seen these things for oneself here and now. Then why not me?'

"Then one eventually abandons conceit, having relied on conceit. 'This body comes into being through conceit, yet it is by relying on conceit that conceit is to be abandoned.' Thus was it said, and in reference to this was it said.

"This body comes into being through sexual intercourse. Sexual intercourse is to be abandoned. With regard to sexual intercourse, the Buddha declares the cutting off of the bridge."

Confession
Then the nun -- getting up from her bed, arranging her upper robe over one shoulder and bowing down with her head at Ven. Ananda's feet -- said:

"A transgression [an offense entailing defeat such as sexual intercourse?] has overcome me, venerable sir, in that I was so foolish, so muddle-headed, and so unskilled as to act in this way. May Ven. Ananda please accept this confession of my transgression as such, so that I may restrain myself in the future."

"Yes, sister, a transgression overcame you in that you were so foolish, so muddle-headed, and so unskilled as to act in this way. But because you see your transgression as such and make amends in accordance with the Dharma, we accept your confession.

"For it is a cause of growth in the Dharma and Discipline of the noble ones when, seeing a transgression as such, one makes amends in accordance with the Dharma and exercises restraint in the future."

That is what Ven. Ananda said. Gratified, the nun delighted in Ven. Ananda's words.