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WARNING: Graphic! Adult themes! Candid discussion of sexual matters treated as mere jokes!

Sexual pleasure and the concept of "sin"

British Buddhist Maurice O'Connell Walshe, Buddhism and Sex (edited by Wisdom Quarterly)

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Deviant (Wadinagala Pannaloka)

Reduced to essentials, the great debate about sex revolves, for many people, around the [Christian] concept of sin.

To the Puritan, indulgence in sexual activity for the sake of pleasure is evil, wicked, or, as our society tends to say, "sinful" (i.e., displeasing to the God).

To the permissive, this is nonsense. Many reject the term "sin" [which is an archery term meaning "to miss the mark" not all of the attendant connotations now associated with it] as meaningless. Many not only see nothing "evil" in sexual pleasure but regard it as highly legitimate perhaps the highest pleasure there is, certainly something to which, in principle at least, everybody has a right.

Many people who come from a more or less [Judeo-]Christian background with Puritanical overtones, find the true Buddhist attitude to this problem rather difficult to see.

Perhaps they have never even been given a clear explanation of it. If they have, it may have seemed too technical for them, and they have not grasped the point.

The point, in fact, is of considerable importance. So it is worthwhile to attempt to make it clear. It involves a proper and elementary grasp of what is meant by karma — something many "Buddhists" have never had.

What about "sin"?

Buddhism and Christianity

It may be profitable to consider the word "sin."

Sin to Christians is thought of as a breach of some God's commands. This explanation may make sense in Christian theology, but it does not apply in Buddhism, where there are no such commands to infringe.

Buddhist precepts are undertakings to oneself, which is something different. They are on par with the instruction, "Look both ways before crossing the road." There is much agreement between the content of Buddhism's Five Precepts and some of the Ten Commandments. So it may be wise in many cases to behave accordingly, whichever formulation one follows.

However, there is another rendering of the word "sin" itself which, though less well-known, comes much closer to the Buddhist view of things.

In the Bible, "sin" translates Hebrew and Greek words that literally mean "missing the mark," that is to say, behaving unskillfully or inadequately.

Zen in the Art of Archery

The "sinner" person, then, is like an unskillful archer who misses what that person aims at. (Could this be the real meaning behind Zen and the Art of Archery?) This comes very close to the Buddhist idea of akusala karma or "unskilled action."

The Pali word kamma (Sanskrit karma) literally means "action" (volition, intention, underlying motivation, cetana), which can either be skillful (kusala) or unskillful (akusala).

The results of action (karmic results) come back to the doer as resultants (vipaka), which are pleasant when the action previously performed was skillful, unpleasant when it was unskillful.

If I look before I cross the road, I get across safely, which is pleasant; if I don't look both way, I may get run over, which will be very unpleasant.

• The FEELINGS we experience are of the nature of karmic results: They are dependent on past karma. And, of course, we are constantly creating new karma most of the time.

Lust for Enlightenment (Stevens)

It should therefore be noted that the feeling of pleasure (sexual or otherwise) is not an action, not karma, but a result of karma. There is, therefore, nothing either "skillful" or "unskillful" about experiencing such a feeling.

We should therefore not regard it as either "virtuous" or "sinful." So far, so good. Such pleasant feelings can be enjoyed with a clear conscience free of guilt feeling. If this were all, there would be no problem. Puritans would be routed and the permissive justified.

However, there is another side to the matter. We may recall that a few years ago there was a song called "Money is the Root of all Evil." The careful pointed out that it is not money, but the love of money that the Bible calls the root of all evil (of a lot of evil, anyway).

And here is the snag. Sexual pleasure (like money) is not "evil," not unskillful, but attachment to sexual pleasure is. If we can experience the pleasure without grasping and clinging, we are all right; if we become attached to it, we are far from "hitting the mark."

• Is detachment (not being clingy) better? The Buddhist Layman

What mindfulness help? - It is always helpful.

Now of course it is rather difficult, to put it mildly, to experience pleasure of any sort without feeling (or exciting the habit) attachment to it. Attachment is karma, unskillful karma at that. The results of that will inevitably, according to Buddhism, be unpleasant in the future. It needn't be this way.

Many might find this explanation novel. Some might find it puzzling. Some will undoubtedly reject it — without investigation — with the excuse that it is overly subtle, arbitrary, or something of the sort.

What they mean is that they find it inconvenient. But it repays a lot of consideration and mindful investigation.

Careful study, in fact, should show that it is the key to the whole problem. The matter can also be considered in terms of [the 12 causal links of] Dependent Origination:

• "Contact is the basis for the arising of feeling;
• feeling... of craving;
• craving... of clinging;" and so on,
• the ultimate outcome being the continued process of becoming, with all the suffering that entails.

Buddhism and [Regular] Sex (M. O'C. Walshe)

So if we wish to adjudicate between the Puritans and the permissive, we cannot say that either side is entirely right. However, we might suggest that Puritans are partly right for the wrong reasons.

Sexual indulgence is not wicked, but it may be (to some degree) inadvisable. Most people will not feel they are able to refrain altogether (nor are they being urged to), but there is merit in moderation. More

• Deviant Sex and Buddhism (Kindle edition) by Wadinagala Pannaloka

Aunty Lu's internalized Asian racism?

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Richest part of Mexico City (walking tour)

Wait, there's a rich part of Mexico City? We thought it was all dusty adobe and siestas leaning on giant cacti, enduring the heat then drinking tequila and cerveza, getting into fights, and making trouble for the local policia? That's what TV told us. Or isn't it all drug cartels, beaches, and taco stands with beans as the main cuisine, and maize, and fruity drinks with colorful...we've been Ugly American tourists too long and should get out and see the world more.

Mexico City walking tour, Polanco, Mexico City's luxury neighborhood 🇲🇽

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Are whites racist? No! Well, sometimes 😟

Minari (award-winning film)

In the award-winning Korean-American movie Minari, there is a touching scene. The Korean daughter is having a tough time fitting in in Whiteland, USA. She's pretty, but she's not white. Then one day, by an act of God, a popular blonde girl approaches her and speaks. It's all going to be okay after all; she's being accepted by the cool kids! The blonde asks, Can I say something in your language and you stop me as soon as I say something you understand? I want to see if I'm speaking correctly?

Trump loves white children just like Adolf did.

The Korean girl is mesmerized -- She's talking to me! She wants my opinion! She's learned my language to be able to communicate with me! She's the bridging the gap! Sure, I can do that, the Korean girl answers. Then the blonde girl says this (winning the movie Oscar nominations in the process), "Ching-chong, ching-chong, ching-chong."

America first means white nationalists first.

She and we are crushed, devastated. The blonde girl smiles cruelly. Are whites really that racist? Well, sometimes. It's not that whites went through Scouts and Brownie training (America's Hitler Youth and Brown Shirts programs for boys and girls), so much as it is a general insensitivity. Look at this white rapper appropriating Black culture to diss an Asian segment of the population. Come on, it's all in fun. She's just trying to go viral:

"Woah Vicky (Ching Chong Bitch)"

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Me tit hurts now, Penny. Where's Sean?

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Fast forward 10 years to when Penny's a mom

Abby, quit bellyaching. It's time to party!

Mexicanish salsuh, but not too spicey because anythink hotter than a tater burns me bum even tho I, Penny, look Spanish, and I'm so sorry, Mum, for bein a rebel and gettin a light brown trinity of dots behind me ear to show everyone wut a wild child me is. We want nuthin more than to be like our American models of behavior from the telly and theatre via Hollywood.]

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Meditating with Irish Buddhists in Dublin

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Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind

(RTÉ News) In this week's Doors Open series, RTÉ's Morning Edition reporter Aisling Riordan visits the Dublin Buddhist Centre, where Dubliners go to meditate and purify their minds.

They do this not necessarily to become "Buddhists" but to learn to strengthen their attentiveness, develop peace, bubble up happiness from within, and get a taste of the Dharma (Teachings) that drew Irish Buddhists like Laurence O'Connell (U Dhammaloka, the first Westerner in history to ordain as a Buddhist monk) and Maura O'Halloran (Zen Master Soshin or Daigo Soshin Bikuni) to Theravada Buddhist Burma and Zen Buddhist Japan to full-time practice.

Larry O'Connell (U Dhammaloka) is an inspiration

The center is not about conversions or ordinations. Rather, it teaches practitioners in an urban, secular, industrialized environment. Some train to be Dhammacharis (Dharma-acharyas).

Either may marry, be single, have sex, be celibate, practice intensively on retreat or as they get the opportunity with their children and family responsibilities.

Why do punk rockers like Buddhism?

Unlike the lives of Catholic and Protestant officials, who are often seen to lead to hypocrisy and bad behavior completely at odds with Churchly vows, these practitioners use the Dharma to uplift themselves and those around them by their mindfulness, peace, virtue, wakefulness, and clarity.

The Irish Buddhist

It's not "religious" so much as ordinary life but spiritual, following examples from the Wisdom of the East like the Buddha (the "Awakened One") and Avalokita/Kwan Yin (the "Goddess of Compassion"), a kind of "Jesus and Mary Chain" that existed centuries before Christianity.

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• Penny goes wild (Pentzer on YouTube, Aug. 30, 2019); Dublin Buddhist Centre featured on RTE News, 9/16/13; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Uproar: Emma Sad Stone vs. Lily Glad Stone

Billie Schwab Dunn Pop Culture and Entertainment Reporter, Newsweek, March 11, 2024 (updated); Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

I deserve this more than Gladstone. Sorry if they gave it to me. It's no one's fault. #statusquo

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Others recognized my contribution to film.

Lily Gladstone snubbed at Oscars, sparking uproar about old Academy and its disgusting lack of inclusion and opportunity.

Native American actor Lily Gladstone (the titular lead actress in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, actually supporting Leonardo DiCaprio in his starring role alongside co-lead Robert De Niro, about the super-rich Osage tribe, at one time comprising the richest people in the world murdered by white people for their money, a shocking true story).

Quick, throw Ken in for some much needed comic relief. And show Margot's reaction.

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1st movie predicted Easy A[wards]

Lily Gladstone was nominated for Best Actress at the 96th annual Academy Awards for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon — and many people are furious she was overlooked in favor of white Emma Stone, who was previously awarded this prize for Lala Land.

If Gladstone had been recognized on Sunday night, she would have become the first Native American person ever to win an Academy Award, aka an Oscar. the Native American woman who went up to accept the Best Actor award that one time was just picking it up for Marlon Brando, as he was making a statement about the Academy and its insular possibly racist outlook on movies.

• #OscarSoWhite was at the 87th Academy Awards

The Context

This isn't about race because, well, it just isn't!

Gladstone received near-universal acclaim for her performance as real-life figure Mollie Burkhart in Scorsese's film, which chronicled the series of real-life murders by whites of tribal members of the Osage Nation, known as the Reign of Terror.

Set in 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma, the white killers were involved in a plot to steal the rights to the Native's oil-rich land.

Gladstone, who is from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, previously made history when she was first nominated for the award as she became the first Native American woman to ever be put forward.

However, she is not the first Indigenous nominee for Best Actress, with previous contenders including Yalitza Aparicio for 2018's Roma and Keisha Castle-Hughes for 2003's Whale Rider. Both women also didn't go on to be recognized with an award from the Academy.

• Lily Gladstone Oscars snub sparks uproar (newsweek.com)

COMMENTARY

But Stone is white and is more deserving.

"Academy too white" and variations on this theme were all the rage in previous years. How little has changed, and that's what the public is mad about, not just Native Americans. It's the movie business, not the movie social reform movement through cinema or movie pastime. What can be done? Mass protests, boycotts, BDS? Let's boycott, sanction, and divest from the Hollywood apparatus and cable TV. No more Netflix. Now it's time to found a representative media. The really sad thing is that a movie about the oppression of the Indigenous people is what revealed how that oppression, that slow genocide and erasure, is continuing.

Y'all are actually oppressing us in our country!

Near the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, an atrocity happened to wealthy and prosperous Black people. White neighbors could not bare it, so they entered "Black Wall Street" business district, where the largest concentration of Black professionals in the U.S. were at that time, and they murdered, massacred, and barrel bombed the Black population, burning down their businesses and homes to level out the playing field so that white could be the master race again after slavery had ended. Neither Native Americans nor Blacks have recovered from these horrible incidents, these historical atrocities. Instead, many whites blame Black and BIPOCs for their downtrodden status, never mind who did the trotting on them to put them back in "their place." It's not a two class society. It's much more complex than that. And the racism, implicit bias, prejudice, systemic inequality and lack of opportunity all quite predictably point in the direction of the outcomes we see in our society for the second-, third-, and fourth-class citizens.

The answer? Grin and bear it, and shut the H up about it. Like it or lump it. Take it or leave it. Go back to your own country. You're from here? Oh, well, who cares? Go find somewhere else to live.

Int'l Women's Day: Inspire Inclusion (3/8)

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