A series of on going interviews on the question of celibacy (Brahmacharya) and other related issues, practices in the western and eastern spiritual traditions. The path of the the monastic, (purification and renunciation) vis a vis the path of the house holder, lay person teacher, Yoga, asceticism and the path of Tantra.
The following question was submitted by
Stuart Sovatsky, PHD
Vedanta, Taoism, Buddhism, Judeo-Christian Gnosticism, Mystical Sufism, all laud transcendence of duality and desire, verified by transcendence of sexual activity, from the Buddha to the Dalai Lama and millions of others in India over the millennia. Has modern non-dualism created something new where sex and desire are not transcended? And is this a higher state than what Buddha and founder of Advaita Vedanta, Adi Shankara, taught to monks and lay people and lived personally