The
Dalai Lama, , on Friday said
sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while chastity offered a better life and "more freedom."
"Sexual pressure, sexual desire, actually I think is short period satisfaction and often, that leads to more complication,"
He said conjugal life caused
"too much ups and downs. "Naturally as a human being ... some kind of desire for sex comes, but then you use human intelligence to make comprehension that those couples always full of trouble. And in some cases there is suicide, murder cases," the Dalai Lama said.
He said the "consolation" in celibacy is that although "we miss something, but at the same time, compare whole life,
it's better, more independence, more freedom," the Dalai Lama waxed eloquent on the Buddhist credo of non-attachment.
"Too much attachment towards your children, towards your partner," was "one of the obstacle or hindrance of peace of mind,"
he said.
I'm at a cross-roads myself. At a heartache.
The power of suggestion is strong when one's in a dire circumstance.
Q ...
But I do not necessariy equate sex with love?
