
Shaila Catherine: When Students Get Distracted
Teaching Meditation
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The Buddha's View on Sexuality Is Quite Negative
The Buddha's view on sexuality is quite negative. As lay people which I think nearly all of our listeners would be that's going to be an important part of our lives. So it can be useful in that sense to calm the sexual desire, and to calm it actually from the perspective of what is the trigger for that desire are we seeing a body in a particular way through particular features interpreting them in ways that keep triggering this lust until we do something that counters our commitments or causes problems in our family or our community. It can certainly be used to gain control over the, the, an uncontrolled lust,. But the Buddha recognized that lay people are engaged in sensual experiences sexuality kind of relationship life
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