Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
Then why did you claim it was
[b]suicidal intent in the first place?
I only offered the simplest answer to the problem. Tell me what do
you think with? And how does it work?[/b][/b]
I thought you meant it in a suicidal way.. but anyway even it's
murderous intention it's just as bad. Not allowed in this forum,
and anyway it's illegal in any countries.
In Buddhism, the only ultimate way is to remove at the root - the
mind, not by physical means like drugs, removal of sexual organs,
or death. Because the absence of physical conditions does not
destroy the root cause which is the mind's ignorance and grasping
and defilements. Hormones allow certain sensations to arise, it is
still the mind that grasps on it. Sexual attraction does not happen
only until the mind grasps on things.
....When the minds knowing presence fully absorbs the
repulsiveness, internalizing the feeling of revulsion, a profound
realization suddenly occurs: The mind itself produces
feelings of revulsion, the mind itself produces feelings of
attraction; the mind alone creates ugliness and the mind alone
creates beauty.
These qualities do not really exist in the external physical world.
The mind merely projects these attributes onto the objects it
perceives and then deceives itself into believing that they are
beautiful or ugly, attractive or repulsive. In truth, the mind
paints elaborate pictures all the timepictures of oneself and
pictures of the external world. It then falls for its own mental
imagery, believing it to be real.
At this point the meditator understands the truth with absolute
certainty: The mind itself generates repulsion and attraction. The
previous focus of the investigationthe pile of flesh and blood and
boneshas no inherent repulsiveness whatsoever. Intrinsically, the
human body is neither disgusting nor pleasing. Instead, it is the
mind that conjures up these feelings and then projects them on the
images that are in front of us. Once wisdom penetrates this
deception with absolute clarity, the mind immediately relinquishes
all external perceptions of beauty and ugliness, and turns inward
to concentrate on the source of such notions. The mind itself is
the perpetrator and the victim of these deceptions; the deceiver
and the deceived.
Only the mind, and nothing else, paints pictures of beauty and
ugliness. So the asubha images that the meditator has been focusing
on as separate and external objects, are absorbed into the mind
where they merge with the revulsion created by the mind. Both are,
in fact, one and the same thing. When this realization occurs, the
mind lets go of external images, lets go of external forms, and in
doing so lets go of sexual attraction.
Sexual attraction is rooted in perceptions of the human body. When
the real basis of these perceptions is exposed, it completely
undermines their validity; and the external, as we know it,
collapses and our attachment to it ceases of its own accord. The
defiling influence of sexual attractionwhich has ridden roughshod
over the mind since time immemorial, luring the mind to grasp at
birth and so experience death continuously for eonsthis insidious
craving is now powerless. The mind has now passed beyond its
influence: It is now free.... ~ Ajahn Maha Boowa, an Arhat
see:
http://buddhism.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=221617&page=1
