[Buddha-l] Re: The Buddha, an 'emotional weakling'? What are the "joys of living"?

[Mike Austin]

In message <965146706.20060622120642 at kungzhi.org>, Benito Carral 
<bcarral at kungzhi.org> writes
>On Thursday, June 22, 2006, Erik wrote:
>
>> Only  if  you  discover  that you cannot handle lust,
>> that  you get over the edge as soon as you see a spot
>> of  human  skin,  then you might consider to become a
>> monk.
>
>   It's  amazing  how  some people try to redefine what
>Buddhism  is  in order to make it compatible with their
>attachments.  Well,  we  are  in  the Dharma Ending Age
>after  all,  so  I suppose it's just what we could wait
>for.

I agree. The problem is afflicted emotions. As far as I understand, lust 
is an afflicted - severely afflicted - motion. The function it serves is 
to not just to stimulate procreation on a coarse level,  but to maintain 
beings in samsara on a pervasive level.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin