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Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals?

• RikNieu 7y ago
  Not according to the Pali suttas.
  • neonate 7y ago
    Which texts exactly?
    • RikNieu 7y ago
      Theravada https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN35_127.html https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN35_127.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.060.than.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.060.than.html Mahayana https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/sixfold-purity.pdf https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/an...
      • neonate 7y ago
        I appreciate the links. Thank you! But can you point me to what they say about enlightenment being incompatible with sex scandals? I looked, but didn't see it. In case it helps, I'm genuinely interested. It seems to me that if enlightenment is a thing, there's no reason to assume that it necessarily goes along with conformity to conventional morality. In fact it seems likely that such a person would be less constrained, because less subject to fear of social pressure. But I don't know.
        • RikNieu 7y ago
          Enlightenment, in the Buddhist definition is not the abandonment of morality, it follows its perfection. Thats why monks are required to be celibate. From the second link above; "Abandoning uncelibacy, he lives a celibate life, aloof, refraining from the sexual act that is the villager's way." Also, see this sutta, as per point 9: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.nypo.html#fnt-6 https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.022.nypo.html... Enlightenment is the abandonment of sense desire, among other things.