Photo credits

The Embalse de Riano in northern Spain. The picture was taken by .... me!

Wednesday, November 21

Pornographic Religion

Pornography is that thing which promises much but fails to deliver on the quintessential thing it implicitly promises.


Because the essence of sex is relationship - love.

The image on the screen provides eroticism, arousal, etc. But it is an illusion to think that the person in the image would ever have a relationship with you – or would ever love you. I have even seen for example, a pack of playing cards and the image on the back of each card was a naked woman, with the word ‘Love’ written in a heart above her head. How deceptive! There is no love here. There is no relationship here. It is all an empty deceit.

Buddhism is the same.

Buddhism has all of the appearance of religion – all the image. It gives you ritual and ceremonies. It gives you prayer wheels. It gives you ethics and codes of behaviour.

But the essence of religion is a love-relationship with God. In Buddhism there is no God. There is no love here. There is no relationship here. It is all an empty deceit.

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