Gay & Lesbian Love's Spiritual Path
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Polarities are disturbingly replete in both ancient and modern philosophical traditions. Concepts of opposites such as, feminine-masculine, mystic-human, and sexual-spiritual have existed since the beginnings of human life and have influences prejudice and violence against specific groups of people. In both east and west, sexuality has been seen as interfering with spiritual attainment while celibacy has been thought to support it. While the Buddha taught that spiritual attainment could be achieved with or without a sexual partner and the Tantric sexual practices exist to prove that divine mysticism can be experienced during sexual acts, the preponderant contemporary religious thinking is still that these are opposites which conflict. The idea that the physical gender determines one’s social role and the Asian view of the male as “yang†and the female as “yin†expresses a polarity which was not accepted by the ancient mystics of Eastern India nor many American Indians.
Theses essays explore opposites and how gender and sexual preferences have been perceived throughout history as a result of belief in polarities and presents the union of opposites as the traditional belief.
Kindle Single 5844 words 8 pages
Polarities are disturbingly replete in both ancient and modern philosophical traditions. Concepts of opposites such as, feminine-masculine, mystic-human, and sexual-spiritual have existed since the beginnings of human life and have influences prejudice and violence against specific groups of people. In both east and west, sexuality has been seen as interfering with spiritual attainment while celibacy has been thought to support it. While the Buddha taught that spiritual attainment could be achieved with or without a sexual partner and the Tantric sexual practices exist to prove that divine mysticism can be experienced during sexual acts, the preponderant contemporary religious thinking is still that these are opposites which conflict. The idea that the physical gender determines one’s social role and the Asian view of the male as “yang†and the female as “yin†expresses a polarity which was not accepted by the ancient mystics of Eastern India nor many American Indians.
Theses essays explore opposites and how gender and sexual preferences have been perceived throughout history as a result of belief in polarities and presents the union of opposites as the traditional belief.
Kindle Single 5844 words 8 pages
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